外國人最想和你聊的時(shí)事話題：光污染

     Further methods to prevent light pollution will be developed.
     積極探索并加強(qiáng)光污染防治。
     David L. Crawford, a retired astronomer who heads the International Dark-Sky Association, said recent studies suggest about 70 percent of the people in the United States cannot see the Milky Way because of light pollution.
     國際黑暗天空協(xié)會(huì)的負(fù)責(zé)人、已經(jīng)退休的天文學(xué)家戴維-克勞福德說，最新研究表明，70％的美國人因?yàn)楣馕廴径鵁o法看見銀河系。
     The optic pollution has been becoming an important urban issue.
     光污染問題已經(jīng)成為城市發(fā)展中的主要問題。
     Colloquium on Light Pollution, Radio Interference and Space Debris was held yesterday.
     光污染、射頻干擾和空間殘塊問題座談會(huì)于昨天召開。
     Being different from the forms of other environment destructions, the effect of light pollution can be easily alleviated, even turned to be positive.
     和其他形式的環(huán)境破壞不一樣的是，光污染的影響是可以輕易被減輕，甚至被轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)楹玫摹?br />      The light pollution includes visible light, infrared ray and ultraviolet ray pollution.
     光污染包括可見光、紅外線和紫外線造成的污染。
     In summer, the strong reflected light of glass curtain wall enters into the nearby residents' house, which increases the inner temperature and influence normal life.
     夏天，玻璃幕墻強(qiáng)烈的反射光進(jìn)入附近居民樓房內(nèi)，增加了室內(nèi)溫度，影響正常的生活。
     The head lamp of cars and irrational illuminating equipments of workshops will both lead to dazzle.
     汽車夜間行駛時(shí)照明用的頭燈，廠房中不合理的照明布置等都會(huì)造成眩光。
     Artificial daylight is not only harmful to human beings, but also to the birds and insects.
     人工白晝不僅對人體有害，還會(huì)傷害鳥類和昆蟲。
     According to astronomy statistics, in the night sky free from light pollution, you can see about 7,000 stars, while in the big cities full of street lights, background lights and landscape lights, you can only see about 20 to 60 stars.
     據(jù)天文學(xué)統(tǒng)計(jì)，在夜晚天空不受光污染的情況下，可以看到的星星約為7000個(gè)，而在路燈、背景燈、景觀燈亂射的大城市里，只能看到大約20到60個(gè)星星。
     Laser pollution is also a special form of light pollution.
     激光污染也是光污染的一種特殊形式。
     Excessive lighting is a waste by the meaningless use of energy.
     過度照明是對能源的無意義使用所造成的浪費(fèi)。
     Mix of different types of light sources will seriously affect the passive recipients, and even cause accidents.
     不同種類的光源混雜在一起，將嚴(yán)重影響被動(dòng)接受者，并且可能導(dǎo)致車禍。
     Light in the dark will make pedestrian or the driver of transient"visual loss", and cause traffic accidents.
     黑暗中的強(qiáng)光會(huì)使行人或者駕駛員短暫性"視覺喪失"，從而引發(fā)交通事故。
     The sky blow will seriously affect human astronomers work, and lead to the ecological environment destruction.
     人為白晝將嚴(yán)重影響天文學(xué)家的工作，并且對生態(tài)環(huán)境產(chǎn)生破壞。
     In Europe, America and Japan, the problem of light pollution has long been concerned.
     在歐美和日本，光污染的問題早已引起人們的關(guān)注。
     People know the harm of water pollution, air pollution and noise pollution on human health, but did not find a potential threat around uslight pollution, which is a serious damaging to people's eyes.
     人們都知道水污染、大氣污染、噪聲污染對人類健康的危害，卻沒有發(fā)覺身邊潛在的威脅--光污染，正嚴(yán)重?fù)p害著人們的眼睛。
Part 3　Let's Talk！　開始交流吧！
     Tom: Tyler, why are you late?
     湯姆：泰勒，你怎么遲到了？
     Tyler: I just come back from the maintenance station.
     泰勒：我剛剛從維修站過來。
     Tom: What's happening?
     湯姆：發(fā)生什么事情了？
     Tyler: I came across a traffic accident on the way.
     泰勒：我在來的路上發(fā)生車禍了。
     Tom: God, you always cautious in driving, who could it happen?
     湯姆：天啊，你開車一向很謹(jǐn)慎的，怎么會(huì)發(fā)生車禍呢？
     Tyler: It's that blamed glass wall.
     泰勒：都是那該死的墻面玻璃。
     Tom: Do you mean the glass wall of the buildings?
     湯姆：你是說建筑物上的墻面玻璃嗎？
     Tyler: Yes. I was driving on the road, and suddenly a strong light flashed in front of my eyes, which make me not to see the front car clearly and crashed with it.
     泰勒：是的。我正在路上開車，忽然有一道強(qiáng)光從我眼前閃過，導(dǎo)致我沒有看清楚前面的車，結(jié)果就和它撞上了。
     Tom: There are many high-rise buildings with that glass window now. Although it seems pretty, it contains potential danger to the transportation.
     湯姆：現(xiàn)在很多高樓大廈都裝有這種玻璃墻。盡管看上去很好看，但是卻給交通帶來了隱患。
     Tyler: It is very dangerous especially when the sunlight is strong.
     泰勒：尤其是光照強(qiáng)的時(shí)候，非常危險(xiǎn)。
     Tom: Absolutely, I've almost suffered an accident also because of this reason.
     湯姆：沒錯(cuò)，我曾經(jīng)也因?yàn)檫@個(gè)原因差點(diǎn)發(fā)生交通事故。
     Tyler: This is so-called light pollution, isn't it?
     泰勒：這就是所謂的光污染吧？
     Tom: Yes. The lights that can influence the natural environment, bring negative effects on people's normal life, work, rest and entertainment, damage people's capability of observation, make people feel uncomfortable and damage their health all belong to light pollution.
     湯姆：對。只要是影響自然環(huán)境，對人類正常生活、工作、休息和娛樂帶來不利影響，損害人們觀察物體的能力，引起人體不舒適感和損害人體健康的各種光都屬于光污染。
     Tyler: There is a construction site near my home, which always work in the evening and illuminate the whole site light day time, so I have to wear eyeshade to sleep.
     泰勒：我家附近有個(gè)施工工地，每天晚上也不停，而且還用很亮的燈光照明，我不得不戴上眼罩睡覺。
     Tom: You could make a consultation with them and ask them to stop working during night.
     湯姆：你們可以和他們進(jìn)行協(xié)商，要求他們夜間停止施工。
     Tyler: It's useless, and they said they have to finish the project in limited time.
     泰勒：沒有用，他們說要趕工程。
     Tom: What a pity.
     湯姆：我真的很同情你。