Turning chewing gum into useful objects 嚼過的口香糖“變廢為寶”

學(xué)習(xí)要點(diǎn)

有關(guān)“recycling 回收利用”的詞匯

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What is most chewing gum made of?

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Chewing gum is the second most common litter on the streets after cigarettes.

口香糖是僅次于香煙，最常見的街頭垃圾。

Councils spend millions each year cleaning it up. But one designer based at the Design Museum in London has a plan to deal with the problem. It all began with an experiment taking random samples of street litter.

英國地方政府每年要花百萬英鎊來清理它們。但一位來自倫敦設(shè)計(jì)博物館的設(shè)計(jì)師想出了一個(gè)解決此問題的方法。這一切都是從她對(duì)街頭垃圾進(jìn)行隨機(jī)取樣的試驗(yàn)開始的。

Anna Bullus, Designer
"I could find pretty much programmes for recycling for a lot of the litters apart from a piece of chewing gum that I picked up."

安娜·布爾斯，設(shè)計(jì)師
“我能找到回收大部分垃圾的項(xiàng)目，但唯獨(dú)找不到處理我撿到的一塊口香糖的方式?！?

Most chewing gum on our streets is in fact made of synthetic rubber. So chewing gum is potentially a versatile and useful material for lots of manufacturing processes.

出現(xiàn)在我們街頭的大多數(shù)口香糖都由合成橡膠制成。所以口香糖可能被變成一種用途廣泛的材料，用于制造加工的生產(chǎn)過程中。

But how do you capture it before it sticks to the ground? Well, that's where the special bins come in. They are themselves made out of recycled chewing gum.

但你如何能在口香糖被粘在地上之前獲取它呢？這正是“特制垃圾桶”存在的意義了。這些用來裝嚼完的口香糖的垃圾桶就是由回收的口香糖制成的。

The University of Winchester is one of several institutions that have signed up to use the bins.

溫徹斯特大學(xué)是加入使用這種特制垃圾桶的幾所大學(xué)之一。

A lot of the gum is turned into these reusable hot drink cups. These are given out to first-year students to hammer home the message that recycled gum can be turned into something useful - if it's not simply dropped on the floor.

回收的大部分口香糖被做成了可重復(fù)使用的熱飲杯。這些杯子被分發(fā)給讀大一的學(xué)生，從而使他們清楚地了解回收口香糖可以“變廢為寶”，只要不把它們隨地亂扔掉。

In order to gain its new lease of life, the old gum is first taken to a recycling plant. Then it gets turned into the new objects.

為了使這些嚼過的口香糖“重獲新生”，它們先要被送去回收廠，接著被制成新的物品。

As well as the cups and bins, these include some eye-catching designs. But the main goal is to educate and clean up the environment.

包括制成的杯子和垃圾桶，這些“新生寶物”的設(shè)計(jì)非常引人注目。然而，此舉的主要目的是為了敦促人們文明地處理嚼完的口香糖，清理環(huán)境。

詞匯

litter
垃圾

versatile
用途廣泛的

to hammer home
解釋清楚

new lease of life
新生

eye-catching
搶眼的，引人注目的

你知道嗎？

A 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum has been discovered by an archaeology student on a dig in western Finland. Neolithic people used the material as an antiseptic to treat gum infections, as well as a glue for repairing pots.

一塊有著五千年歷史的口香糖在芬蘭西部的一次挖掘中，被一名考古系的學(xué)生發(fā)現(xiàn)。生活在新石器時(shí)代的人們把這種材料作為治療牙齦感染的抗菌劑，以及作為修復(fù)各種盆盆罐罐的黏合劑。

問題答案

Most chewing gum is made of synthetic rubber.