Climate Change Explained - Vocabulary for English Learners · Simple English Videos
视频讲解气候相关词汇，涵盖化石燃料、温室气体等概念，适合练习环保话题表达与听力理解。
Climate change is in the news every day.
气候变化每天都是新闻话题。
People are dying from the heat, drowning in floods and fleeing horrible wildfires.
人们因高温而死亡，或在洪水中丧生，还不得不逃离肆虐的野火。
I'm Jay.
我是杰伊。
And today's lesson is about the language of climate change.
今天我们要学习的主题是“气候变化的语言”（即用来描述和解释气候变化的各种术语和表达方式）。
We talked about climate change in our free weekly conversation on zoom.
我们在每周一次的免费Zoom线上交流中讨论了气候变化问题。
How is climate change affecting our lives?
气候变化正在如何影响我们的生活？
All of us here suffering because of heat wave, and we reduced the time we spent outside.
我们所有人都在遭受热浪的困扰，因此减少了在户外的时间。
We spend out our time all the day we are inside.
我们一整天都待在室内，把时间都花在了那里。
So my friend Irene in Belgrade, Serbia, is suffering from the heat wave on the very day we're recording this lesson.
我的朋友艾琳住在塞尔维亚的贝尔格莱德，就在我们录制这节课的当天，她正遭受着热浪的侵袭。
Another guest in our lives, zoom meeting Roxana, lives in the Middle Eastern country of Oman, where it's always hot and where it rarely rains,
我们生活中的另一位“客人”——通过 Zoom 会议与我们交流的罗克萨娜——居住在中东国家阿曼。那里气候炎热，降雨稀少。
so additional heat from climate change hardly changes her everyday life.
因此，气候变化带来的额外热量几乎不会影响她的日常生活。
And for her, finding cool places is the answer.
对她来说，找到那些“很酷”的地方就是解决问题的办法。
It's okay.
没关系。
You just get used to it.
你只需要慢慢习惯而已。
You will go for the closest
你会选择距离最近的那一个。
options of entertainment like the mall, because the Middle East is famous for the mall area where you can spend your time there.
这里有许多娱乐选择，比如购物中心——因为中东地区以其繁华的购物中心而闻名，你可以在那里尽情消磨时间。
And what Ipersonally do is that when I get bored of being at home and using my AC day and night,
我个人的做法是：当我对整天整夜待在家里、使用空调感到厌烦时，就会……（不过原文在这里没有继续说明具体会做什么）。
I just give a break, Today's and go to mall.
我就休息一会儿，然后去商场逛逛。
I do window shopping, then I come back to continue my life.
我会去商店里看看商品（其实只是随便看看而已），然后再回来继续我的生活。
So it's okay.
所以，这没什么问题。
We human beings need energy to power our machines, our cars, heat and cool our homes, run our factories.
我们人类需要能源来驱动各种机器、汽车，为房屋提供供暖和制冷服务，以及运行工厂。
And for hundreds of years now, we've been doing that primarily with fossil fuels.
几个世纪以来，我们主要依靠化石燃料来实现这一目标。
We extract fossil fuels from the Earth.
我们从地球中提取化石燃料。
These fuels include coal, crude oil and methane gas.
这些燃料包括煤炭、原油和甲烷气体。
How did fossil fuels get buried deep in the Earth?
化石燃料是如何被埋藏在地球深处的呢？
Well, the word fossil gives us a clue.
嗯，“化石”这个词其实给了我们一个线索。
A fossil is what is left of a plant or animal that died thousands upon thousands, even millions of years ago.
化石是指那些在数千甚至数百万年前就已经死亡的植物或动物留下的遗骸。
Think of the fossils scientists have found from dinosaurs.
想想科学家们从恐龙身上发现的那些化石吧。
The creatures and the plants that lived millions of years ago are now buried deep under the earth,
那些生活在数百万年前的生物和植物，如今都埋藏在地球深处。
under great pressure.
在巨大的压力之下。
And that pressure changes those plants and animals back into their basic elements of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen,
这种压力会使这些植物和动物重新分解成它们的基本组成元素——碳、氢和氧。
the building blocks of life.
生命的构成要素。
But in certain combinations, these elements can form coal, which is mostly carbon, crude oil and methane gas.
但在某些特定的组合条件下，这些元素可以形成煤炭（主要成分是碳）、原油和甲烷气体。
And we find these by digging deep into the Earth.
我们通过深入地层来发现这些物质。
But when we burn coal or the products that come from crude oil, like gasoline, or in British English,
但是当我们燃烧煤炭或从原油中提取的产品（比如汽油）时……
that's petrol.
那是汽油。
The result is carbon dioxide, a gas made of carbon and oxygen.
反应的产物是二氧化碳，这是一种由碳和氧组成的气体。
When we humans breathe out, we exhale carbon dioxide.
当我们人类呼气时，会排出二氧化碳。
Now, before we humans started burning fossil fuels for energy, we relied on plants to absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen.
在我们人类开始燃烧化石燃料作为能源之前，我们依赖植物来吸收二氧化碳并释放氧气。
That's what plants do.
植物就是这么做的。