你浪費了多少食物

最新 07-19

一道菜被端上餐桌，

需要幾十到甚至幾百道工序。

它包含著農民、商販、廚師等

多個職業人員的辛勤勞作。

他們的心血不應被浪費。

小夥伴們，

有錢任性

不應該成為浪費資源的理由

不要當眼大肚皮小的「剩男、剩女」。

光碟行動從我做起，

要珍惜食物，

拒絕浪費哦！

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How much food do you waste

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Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English the show that brings you an interesting topic, authentic listening practice and six new items of vocabulary. I』m Dan…

大家好，歡迎收聽六分鐘英語。該節目會奉上有趣的話題，以及六個實用的單詞。我是丹。

And I』m Neil. In this episode we』ll be discussing food waste, just as soon as….

我是尼爾。今天這集節目中，我們要談論食物浪費，等我吃完蘋果……

Neil, did you just throw the rest of that apple away?

尼爾，你剛剛扔掉沒吃完的蘋果了？

Yeah. It was quite a big one and I couldn』t finish it.

是的。蘋果太大了，我吃不完。

Neil, you know you shouldn』t waste food.

你知道你不應該浪費食物的。

Waste meaning to throw away without consuming or using.Ah, it』s only an apple. It』s not the end of the world, Dan.

浪費是指沒有消耗完或用完就扔掉。這只是一個蘋果而已。不是世界末日，丹。

Well, that』s where you could be wrong, my friend.Let me prove it to you, with this week』s question. How much of the world』s food is wasted each year?a) a half b) a third c) a quarter?

這你就說錯了，我的朋友。讓我用今天的問題向你證明。每年世界有多少食物都被浪費了？a)二分之一， b) 三分之一，還是 c) 四分之一？

I』m not sure. I know it』s a lot so I』m going to say a) a half.

我不確定。我知道一定很多，所以我選二分之一。

We』ll find out if you』re right or not at the end of this show.So, the actual figure is 1.3 billion tons of food, which is enough to feed a billion hungry people. Where do you think all this food waste comes from?

節目的最後我們再來看你回答得是否正確。真實的數據是13億噸食物被浪費，這足夠養活10億的飢餓人民。你覺得這些被浪費的食物來自哪裡呢？

Well, restaurants, I imagine.I mean, they can』t give one customer』s leftovers to another! That would be unhygienic!

我想是餐館。因為他們不能把一名顧客的剩飯再給另一名顧客。那太不衛生了！

Leftovers are the remains of food which has not been eaten. And while you are right, restaurants are not the main contributor to food waste.

剩菜是指沒有吃完的食物殘渣。儘管你說的沒錯，但餐館並不是食物廢物的主要貢獻者。

Supermarkets! I bet they throw out loads of food once it goes past its sell-by-date, or the date which it can be legally sold by.

超市！我打賭一旦食物超過保質期或合法銷售的日期，他們就會把大批食物扔掉。

Think closer to home.

想想跟家庭有關的。

It』s us, isn』t it?

是我們，對不對？

Yes. In Europe an incredible 53% of food waste comes from households, which results in 88 million tonnes of food waste a year. And I bet you can』t guess what we do with it?

沒錯。不可思議的是，在歐洲，百分之五十三的食品廢物居然來自家庭，導致每年8800萬噸食物被廢棄。我打賭你猜不到我們是怎麼處理食品廢物的？

I want to say recycle, but I can see from your face, Dan, that it』s not.

我想說回收利用，但看你的臉色，我覺得不是。

No. Unfortunately it goes into landfills and decays.

確實不是。很不幸，它們最終去往垃圾場，漸漸腐朽。

A landfill is a place where rubbish is buried.I see, so the food rots and this causes greenhouse gasses which lead to global warming and climate change.

垃圾場是指填埋垃圾的地方。所以食物腐壞，釋放溫室氣體，導致全球變暖和氣候變化。

Exactly, and the end of the world. But, remarkably the European country of Denmark has managed to reduce its food waste by a very significant 25%.

沒錯，最終就是世界末日了。但令人矚目的是，歐洲國家丹麥成功地將食物浪費率降低了百分之二十五。

That』s impressive, how did that happen?

這太不可思議了，是怎麼做到的？

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They attribute it to a woman called Selina Juul.

他們將其歸功於一個女人，Selina Juul。

I』ve heard about her. She becamea household namein Denmark overnight!

我聽說過她。她的名字在丹麥一夜之間家喻戶曉。

A household name is one which everybody knows, and that』s right.

家喻戶曉是指每個人都知道的人或事。

I thought she was Russian?

我記得她是俄羅斯人？

She is. But, I』ll let her explain.

沒錯。但我讓她來解釋解釋。

I come from a country where there were food shortages, back then in Moscow, communism collapsed, we had the collapse of infrastructure, we were not sure we could get food on the table.And coming to Denmark, seeing this abundance, seeing these supermarkets filled with food.But then I was really shocked to see a lot of food getting wasted.

我來自於一個食物短缺的國家，當時的莫斯科，蘇聯共產主義倒塌，我們的基礎設施也崩潰了，我們不確定能否有足夠的食物端上餐桌。去了丹麥後，目睹了這裡的富裕，超市裡滿是食物。但看到那麼多食物被浪費，我真的很震驚。

So Selina grew up in Moscow at a time when there wasn』t enough food because of the collapse of infrastructure, meaning the basic systems and services of a society – such as food transportation.

所以Selina在莫斯科長大，當時那裡沒有足夠的食物，因為基礎設施崩潰，也就是說一個社會的基礎體系和服務，例如食品運輸。

Then when she moved to Denmark, she found an abundance, or more than enough, food, but she saw it being wasted.

然後她搬到了丹麥，她發現那裡食物無比充足，但她也看到很多食物被浪費了。

So she decided to do something about it?

所以她決定做一些事去改變這一點？

Yes. She started a Facebook page in 2008 called stop wasting foodand 9 years later the Danish government credits her for their reduction in food waste.

是的。她在2008年開通Facebook主頁，名叫停止浪費食物，九年後，丹麥政府表彰她在減少食物浪費方面的貢獻。

How did she do it?

她是怎麼做到的？

Well, lots of ideas really. She convinced some supermarkets to stop selling their items in bulk so that people buy only what they need. She』s produced a leftovers cookbook and she』s working with three governments to set up an education programme in schools.

確實有很多好點子。她說服超市停止整批銷售物品，這樣人們就能只購買需要的東西。她還出版了剩菜食譜，還和三個政府合作，建立在學校的教育項目。

Wow, she』s a busy woman. So how about you educate me with the answer to this week』s question.

哇，她真的很忙。所以你也用今天問題的答案教育我吧。

Sure! I asked you how much of the world』s food is wasted each year?a) a half b) a third c) a quarter?

好的。我問你每年世界上有多少食物被浪費了？a)二分之一， b) 三分之一，還是 c) 四分之一？

And I said a) a half.

我認為是二分之一。

And I』m terribly sorry, mate, but you』re wrong. The answer is b) a third.

很抱歉，你答錯了。正確答案是三分之一。

Well, it』s not as bad as I thought it was, at least.

至少不像我想的那麼糟糕。

Shall we look at the vocabulary then?

我們接下來看看單詞吧？

Yes, let』s. First we hadwaste. If you waste something, you throw it away or lose it without using it or consuming it. Common things we waste are food, time, money and energy. We also have some expressions with waste too. Can you think of one, Dan?

好的。首先我們提到浪費。如果你浪費了某物，就是指還沒有用完或消耗完，你就將其扔掉了。我們通常浪費的東西有食物、時間、錢和能量。我們也有很多和浪費相關的表達。你能想起一個嗎？

A waste of space is an expression which means a thing is completely without value. For example, I』m a complete waste of space in the kitchen. I can』t cook at all. Next we had leftovers. Leftovers are the remains of food or a meal, which have not been eaten.What do you tend to do with your leftovers, Neil?

A waste of space是指某物完全沒有價值。例如，我在廚房完全沒有用。因為我一點都不會做飯。接下來我們談到剩菜剩飯。剩飯是指沒有吃完的食物殘留。你一般怎麼處理剩飯呢？

Oh I love leftovers! Sometimes I think they taste even better than the original meal!

我喜歡剩飯。有時候剩飯嘗起來比最初的味道還好！

I agree! Pizza』s a great example!

我同意！披薩就是一個很好的例子。

Then we hadlandfill. A landfill is a place where rubbish is dropped and buried.In colloquial English we might say, a dump.Do you ever take your rubbish to the dump, Dan?

然後我們說到垃圾填埋廠。垃圾場是指丟棄、填埋垃圾的地方。在英語口語中我們會說dump（垃圾場）。你會把垃圾帶到垃圾場嗎？

Not if I can help it. I prefer torecycleas much as possible.I only go to the dump if I have to get rid of a large appliance, such as a fridge.Then we had a household name. To bea household nameis to be well-known by ordinary people of a particular place or culture. Can you think of a person who is a household name at the moment, Neil?

如果有幫助的話。我傾向於盡可能的回收利用。我去垃圾場只會丟一些大的物件，例如電冰箱。然後我們還說道家喻戶曉的人或事。是指在某一個地方或文化中在普通人群中為人知曉。你能想到當下一個家喻戶曉的人嗎？

Oh, that』s very easy. Donald Trump springs to mind! Everyone must know who he is. Then we had infrastructure. Infrastructure is thebasic systems and services of a society– such as electricity supply, trains, and roads.

這很容易。唐納德·特朗普的名字立馬就浮現在我的腦海了。每個人都知道他是誰。接下來是基礎設施。基礎設施是指一個社會中的基礎體系和服務，例如電力供應、火車和公路。

And finally we hadabundance. If you have an abundance of something, you have more than you need. Do have anything in abundance, Neil?

最後我們提到充足。如果你有充足的某樣東西，就是指你擁有的比你需要的多。你有什麼充足的東西嗎？

Well, when it comes to my children I have to have an abundance of patience….well, most of the time.And, that』s the end of today』s 6 Minute English. Please join us again soon!

當提到我的孩子時，我有充足的耐心，當然，大部分時間。今天的六分鐘英語就到這裡。我們下次再會！

And we are on social media too - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. See you there.

記得訪問我們的Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube。在那見！

Bye!

再見！

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