译林版牛津高中英语(必修5):Unit2 The environment-Reading(3)（在线收听）

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Ms Lin. That was an interesting speech.

女士们，先生们，早上好。谢谢，林女士。您的演讲很有趣。

It is clear that you are very concerned about the present situation of our environment. As a business development consultant, I'm often seen as being against the environment.

很明显你对我们现在的环境非常关心。作为一个经济发展顾问，我经常被认为站在环境保护的对立面。

When people think of factories, they think of clouds of dirty smoke or of pipes pouring chemical waste into rivers.

一想到工厂，人们就会想到污浊的滚滚浓烟或者将化学废料倾入河流的管道。

They think of greedy businessmen hiding from their responsibilities and only worrying about money.

他们想到贪婪的商人撇清自己的责任，并且只担心钱。

People often have this belief that development is bad for the environment, but this does not have to be true.

人们常常认为经济发展对环境有害，但这不一定是正确的。

What I'm here to say is that having worked with many environmental consultants,

我在这里要说的是，在与很多环境学家工作后，

I know that a healthy environment and development should be possible at the same time.

我知道健康的环境和发展应该是能够并存的。

There are many factories and industries which control the amount of pollution they produce,

很多工厂和工业可以控制它们产生污染的数量，

and are very careful to spend money repairing any damage they cause.

并且很注意花钱弥补他们造成的破坏。

The people operating these factories are deeply concerned about the environment.

运作这些工厂的人非常关心环境。

We need to stop thinking of companies and businessmen as the enemy, and give them more credit!

我们不应该把公司和商人看做是敌人，而是应该多信任他们！