口語經典話題——Recycling

　　本期Note

　　1. Do you recycle now? Why?

　　想要回答這道題，我們首先要弄清楚何為recycle：回收那些可被再利用的東西—for reusable things；做環保志愿者和遵循一些地方規定—volunteer or follow the policies, 比如在上海垃圾分類。

　　那我們具體可以回收哪些東西呢？

　　✦ clean bottles干凈的瓶子

　　✦ cans易拉罐

　　✦ paper 紙

　　✦ reuse plastic bags 重復利用塑料袋

　　而這一切其實是為了回收利用可再生資源，從而減少這些物品的重復購買—try to reduce your purchases of these products and look for alternative。

　　參考表達

　　Yes I do, as much as possible. I'm in Shanghai by the way, so we make recycling as a collaborative effort where everyone participates, and the reason why I do all of these is not just because I need to follow the policy, it also can really reduce the pollution generated by the burning of fossil fuels, so I really think we should recycle the right materials, like if you only recycle in the kitchen, it's definitely not enough. There are so many recyclables at home, office or bathroom that we have thrown away. For example, we can recycle clean bottles, cans, paper, and also we can reuse those plastic bags we bought from supermarket.

　　✦ reduce pollution  減少污染

　　✦ fossil fuels 石油燃料

　　✦ recyclable 回收物

　　2. Did you recycle when you were a kid?

　　這里可以借鑒一些小故事或者兒時的回憶，如做手工、變廢為寶等~

　　參考表達

　　Wooo, interesting question. Yes, I did. Actually when I was in primary school, we had a lot of class activities, like having spring outing in the riverside park, and the fee of renting a bus was from our savings of bottle collecting. I mean every kid in our class was obsessed with finding plastic waste in our campus, which was really a hilarious scene I know, but we never felt embarrassed at that time as that was like our first time for being “financially independent”.

　　✦ riverside park 河濱公園

　　✦ a hilarious scene 搞笑的場面

　　✦ financially independent 經濟獨立的

　　3. Will you recycle in the future？

　　這是一道展望未來的話題。未來會不會做環保回收的事情，就看以后大家是否還有這樣的環保意識。

　　參考表達

　　I think the answer is yes. Not only will the recycling policy be trendy in the whole country, but we also need to be aware of the importance of recycling. Recycling the food waste can help us preserve natural resources for our future generation. In this way, proper recycling can maintain the balance in nature since it will save a lot of expense required for the virgin materials.

　　✦ virgin materials 原材料

　　✦ maintain the balance in nature 保持生態平衡

　　4. What kind of things do you recycle?

　　可能大家會覺得這道題和之前講過的題目有重合，其實這只是題目的側重點不同，這道題更側重于生活中你所產出的可回收利用的物品，和個人生活緊密相關。我們可以試試以下的回答：

　　參考表達

　　Plastic spoon. Since I have ordered food delivery a lot these days, they always send me plastic spoons, but I find they can be reused several times indeed. By the way, I'm more into using chopsticks, which have made the plastic spoon a waste totally. I think even reusing your plastic spoon for several times is not enough. The best way to cut it off is carrying your own reusable chopsticks seriously.

　　✦ plastic spoon 塑料勺子

　　✦ delivery food 外賣

　　✦ reusable chopsticks 可循環利用   筷子