2. Since then, every society has had to figure out what to do with its waste — something that is usually unhealthy, smelly, and ugly — throwing garbage in the streets, piling it up just outside of town, building it into structures or simply setting it o 此后,每个社会都要想办法解决垃圾问题——处理那些通常是有害的、难闻的、难看的东西——要么把垃圾扔到街上,要么堆在城外,要么掺在建筑结构里,要么干脆付之一炬。
3. Reduce comes first for a good reason: It's better not to create waste than to have to figure out what to do with it. 将"少用"放在第一位有充分的理由:与其绞尽脑汁地思考怎样处理废物,还不如干脆不要制造垃圾。
4. I figure that different folks like different things. 我想不同的人喜欢不同的事。
5. In the torchlight, he caught sight of a figure whom he immediately recognized as Bill Wilkins, our local grocer. 他借助手电筒的光看到一个人影,一眼便认出此人便是本地杂货商比尔.威尔金斯.
6. In the torchlight, he caught sight of a figure whom he immediately recognized as Bill Wilkins, our local grocer. 借着电筒光。他看见一个人,马上认出那是本地杂货店主经比尔.威尔金斯。
7. It was a small room, on the sixth and top floor, and scarcely a setting for a romantic figure. 艾伯特的房间很小,位于6楼,旅馆的顶层,不像是个传奇人物的住处。