1.Helicopters take crews to the scene of wildfires and tankers drop flame retardant from the air.

直升将人员带到野现场，灭从空中投掷燃剂。

2." First it needs to identify those flame retardants – some of them are toxic, " he says.

“首先，它需要识别那些燃剂——其中一些是有毒的，”他说。

3.And electronics are imbued, often, with flame retardants.

而电子产品通常都含有燃剂。

4.Okay, so that's the black plastic. It can have flame retardants in it. It might come from e-waste.

好，那是黑色塑料。里面可能含有燃剂。它可能来自电子垃圾。

5.Fire retardants are materials that can stop or slow the spread of fires.

防剂这种物质可以止或者减缓势的蔓延。

6.The super-soakers dropping retardant trying to contain this but whoa it's raining down now.

这些“超级水枪”洒下燃剂想要控制住形势，哇，它们正往下掉。

7.The fire retardant cost those two years reached nearly $200 million.

这两年所使用的燃剂的成本达到了近2亿美元。

8.Planes poured retardant on the fire from above, while firefighters battled the inferno on the ground.

从空中向这场大倾倒燃剂，消防队员则在地面上的海中搏斗。

9.Or fire retardants are a big problem these days. We're not sure what the problems are.

也许现在燃剂也是一个大问题。但是我们不确定是什么问题。

10.Hundreds of firefighters fought the fire on the ground and planes dropped water and retardant from above.

数百名消防队员在地面救，从空中降下水和燃剂。

11.And flame retardants are associated with a huge range of health hazards, from cancer, diabetes, thyroid issues.

燃剂与一系列健康危害有关，包括癌症、糖尿病、甲状腺疾病。

12.In 2020, The Forest Service used more than 190 million liters of retardant for the first time.

2020年，美国林业局首次使用了超过1。9亿升的燃剂。

13.Tankers whisking above the tree line, dumping retardant by the thousands of gallons to meet the advancing flames.

倾倒在树木上方呼啸而过，将数千加仑的燃剂倾泻下来，以应对不断蔓延的势。

14.Fortress says its retardants are effective and better for the environment than other products.

Fortress公司表示，其生产的燃剂比其他产品更有效，更环保。

15.He noted that it would take " a lot" of retardant to poison, say, a large body of water.

他指出，要毒害一大片水域，需要“大量”的燃剂。

16.But two nonprofit groups say both kinds of retardant harm the environment.

但两家非营利组织表示，这两种燃剂都会对环境造成危害。

17.So really, these flame retardants are never supposed to get into your consumer products, but they are.

所以，这些燃剂本不应该出现在你的消费品中，但它们确实出现了。

18.Both said that the ammonium-phosphates-based retardant is a fertilizer that can help invasive plants.

两人都表示，基于磷酸铵的燃剂是一种有利于入侵植物生长的肥料。

19.It can form lightweight fibers that can be woven into fabric, and it's famously flame retardant.

它可以形成可以织成织物的轻质纤维，并且以燃性着称。机翻

20.They now add ingredients such as stabilizers and flame retardants.

他们现在添加了稳定剂和燃剂等成分。机翻