2009年3月23日 星期一

地理作業翻譯3/24

Measurements made by scientists indicated that over time the Polynesians began living unsustainably by using the island's forest and soil resources faster than they could be renewed.
測量的科學家指出,隨著時間的推移,波利尼西亞人開始生活在無法持續利用島嶼森林和土壤資源,利用的速度比它們生長的還快。

When they had used up the large trees,the islanders could no longer build their traditional seagoing canoes for fishing in deeper offshore waters,and no one could escape the island by boat.
當他們使用了大量的樹木,島民再也無法建造自己的傳統捕魚的獨木舟,在近海水域更深地地方捕魚,且沒有人可以逃離島乘船。

2009年3月2日 星期一

地理作業 1-3 課文英翻中

If the current exponential growth in the use of renewable resources continues,
the Global Footprint Network estimates that by 2050 humanity will be trying to use twice as many renewable resources as the planet can supply (Figure 1-8) (Concept 1-3).

如果目前在利用可再生資源的指數仍在繼續增長,全球足跡網絡估計,到2050年,人類將要使用的兩倍,可再生資源作為地球可以供應 (圖1-8 ) (概念1-3 ) 。

See Figure 3 on pp. S16–S17 and Figure 5 on p. S19 in Supplement 4 for maps of human ecological footprints for the world and the United States and Figure 4 on p. S18 for a map of countries that are ecological debtors and those that are ecological creditors.

見圖3。 S16- S17和圖5S19在地圖補編4人生態足跡為世界、美國和圖4的紫光S18的地圖、國家、生態債務人和那些生態債權人。