VOA慢速英語(yǔ)聽(tīng)力訓(xùn)練：網(wǎng)球運(yùn)動(dòng)面臨的浪費(fèi)挑戰(zhàn)

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英文原文

The sport of tennis has a problem with waste. That many players do not even recognize each time they open a new container of game balls. The balls are not recyclable. Almost all of the 330 million balls manufactured each year end up in waste or garbage landfills. Once there, it can take as long as 400 years for the balls to decompose.

網(wǎng)球運(yùn)動(dòng)面臨著一個(gè)浪費(fèi)問(wèn)題。許多球員在每次打開(kāi)新球盒時(shí)都沒(méi)有意識(shí)到這一點(diǎn)。這些球是不可回收的。每年制造的3.3億個(gè)球中，幾乎全部最終都被丟棄在垃圾填埋場(chǎng)。一旦到達(dá)那里，這些球需要長(zhǎng)達(dá)400年的時(shí)間才能分解。

Major professional tennis competitions go through nearly 100,000 balls during two weeks of play. The problem of tennis ball waste has sent ballmakers, tennis officials, and recycling companies looking for solutions.

在為期兩周的重大職業(yè)網(wǎng)球比賽中，會(huì)使用近10萬(wàn)個(gè)球。網(wǎng)球球體的浪費(fèi)問(wèn)題促使制造商、網(wǎng)球官員和回收公司都在尋找解決方案。

Nicolas J. Temalus is director of Columbia University's Earth Engineering Center. "Tennis balls, like a lot of objects, are made to be indestructible, which means they're very resistant to mechanical processing," he said. "But do you take a useful object that lasts forever and say, 'people shouldn't use it because it lasts forever'? That's nonsense," he added.

尼古拉斯·J·特馬盧斯是哥倫比亞大學(xué)地球工程中心的主任?！熬W(wǎng)球和其他許多物品一樣，都被設(shè)計(jì)成不可摧毀的，這意味著它們非?？箼C(jī)械處理，”他說(shuō)。“但你會(huì)因?yàn)橐粋€(gè)有用的物體永遠(yuǎn)存在，就說(shuō)‘人們不應(yīng)該使用它，因?yàn)樗肋h(yuǎn)存在’嗎？這簡(jiǎn)直是胡說(shuō)八道，”他補(bǔ)充道。

Temalus and other experts note that tennis balls make up a tiny percentage of the hundreds of millions of metric tons of garbage produced every year. He says part of the solution is finding ways to do other things with the balls. "Anyone who would say you shouldn't play tennis because of the tennis balls is misinformed," said Jason Quinn, director of Colorado State University's Sustainability Research Laboratory.

特馬盧斯和其他專(zhuān)家指出，網(wǎng)球僅占每年產(chǎn)生的數(shù)億噸垃圾中的一小部分。他說(shuō)，解決方案的一部分是找到使用這些球做其他事情的方法。“任何因?yàn)榫W(wǎng)球球體就說(shuō)不應(yīng)該打網(wǎng)球的人都是被誤導(dǎo)的，”科羅拉多州立大學(xué)可持續(xù)研究實(shí)驗(yàn)室主任杰森·奎因說(shuō)。

"There are things you can do to reuse and repurpose tennis balls to lessen the impact. Individual used balls sometimes become playthings for dogs or are reused in other small ways. But huge numbers of used balls can also be crushed to pieces for use as building material, like flooring."

“你可以通過(guò)再利用和改造網(wǎng)球來(lái)減少其影響。用過(guò)的單個(gè)球有時(shí)會(huì)變成狗狗的玩具，或以其他小方式再利用。但大量的舊球也可以被壓碎成碎片，用作建筑材料，如地板?！?/span>

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