As it stands, battery cars that run on electricity from burning coal can be more polluting than cars that get good mileage on gas.

正如看到的那样，动车从烧煤变为动，可会比燃气行驶很多公里数的车造成的污染更多。

And today the whole Pacific Ocean has traces of contamination of cesium-137.

今天，整个太平洋都 受到了铯-137的污染。

Our air quality now suffers from the effects of pollutants emitted directly from our cars.

我们的空气质量直受到汽车排放污染物的影响。

In the northern city of Cangzhou some officials showed unusual zeal by vowing to give up smoking in order to “do their personal best to combat air pollution”.

在中国北部的沧州市，些官员对宣誓戒烟，“为打击环境污染做出自己的贡献”显示出了极大的热情。

It's caused by volatile organic compounds, or VOCs.

室内空气污染的源头挥发性有机化合物（简称为VOCs）。

That's not necessarily a problem, except it means more and more pollutants are discharged into the rivers.

那并不定个问题，不过那意味着越来越多的污染被排放到河流之中。

The collective “we” are dumbfounded that people still drive drunk, so I’ll sum it up like this. If you drive drunk, you — simply put — are a shortsighted, utterly useless, oxygen-wasting human form of pollution, a Darwin award-deserving, selfish coward.

我们都觉得很震惊，至今仍有人会酒驾。所以我来总结下。如果你酒驾，那么简而言之，你就个目光短浅、毫无处、浪费氧气的人形污染物、达尔文奖得主、自私的懦夫。

At one point, the level of pollutants in Delhi's air was almost 40 times what the World Health Organization deemed safe.

根据世界卫生组织对安全的定义，新德里的污染该标准的40倍。

There will be television chat shows hosted by robots, and cars with pollution monitors that will disable them when they offend.

届时，将出现由机器人主持的视谈话节目以及装有污染监控器的汽车，些汽车排污超标 (违规)，监控器就会使其停驶。

That layer of hazy air pollution above big cities?

那层笼罩在大城市上空雾蒙蒙的污染？

Contaminating the existing time line, producing a terrible catastrophic result.

污染现有的时间线，产生可怕的灾难性后果。

Contaminated punnets have now been reported in six states and territories.

目前已经在六个州和地区发现了受污染的草莓。

I don't want money to get in the way of our friendship.

我不想铜钱的腥臭 污染了我们的友谊。

Air pollution is harmful to our health.

大气污染对我们的健康有害。

The Thames reeks with fetid sewage and the pollution of the new industrial age.

泰晤士河充斥着恶臭的污水和新兴工业时代的污染。

Though America sees a million emergency-room visits a year from drug abuse, manufacturers see no need to invest in quality control when the penalty for selling contaminated cocaine is the same as for smuggling the pure stuff.

尽管美国每年因为滥毒品而进入急救室的人次有百万之多，但对个产业的官方管制却微乎其微：由于对销售受污染可卡因的惩罚与偷运纯正可卡因的惩罚样的，制造商 甚至不认为有必要在质量控制上浪费投资。

Okay, I spent 25 years, in my middle-aged lungs now, breathing various concentrations of that. And on a clear day it always looked like this, so you never saw it. It was insidious and it was really happening.

我花了25年，我“中年”的肺部呼吸些不同浓度的气体。在好天气时，它总看起来像样，所以你不会看到些污染。潜伏的，但确实存在的污染。

Nor do they include already locked in warming hidden by air pollution.

它们也不包括被空气污染所掩盖的气候变暖。

Scarce and polluted water, one of China's most severe environmental challenges, is almost entirely beyond the scope of the current raft of reforms.

稀缺且日益受到污染的水资源中国最严重的环境威胁之，但却几乎没有没能在轮改革的方案之中看到相关措施。

We're trying to apply technologies to reduce odor, and we're trying to deal with the trace contaminants like the pharmaceuticals.

我们正在尝试通过各种技术的应来减少臭味，而且我们也在竭力应对污染物的问题，比如药物。