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

正如看到那样，电动车从烧煤变为用电驱动，可会比燃气行驶很多公里数车造成污染更多。

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污染。

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

我们空气质量一直受到汽车排放污染物影响。

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”.

在中国北部沧州市，一些官员对宣誓戒烟，“为打击环境污染做出自己贡献”显示出了极大热情。

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

室内空气污染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.

那并不一个问，不过那意味着越来越多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。所以我来总结一下。如果你酒驾，那么简而言之，你就个目光短浅、毫无用处、浪费氧气人形污染物、达尔文奖得主、自私懦夫。

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，新德里污染该标准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电视谈话节目以及装有污染监控器汽车，一旦这些汽车排污超标 (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污染？

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

污染现有时间线，产生可怕灾难性后果。

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草莓。

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

我不想铜钱腥臭 污染了我们友谊。

Air pollution is harmful to our health.

大气污染对我们健康有害。

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

泰晤士河充斥着恶臭污水和新兴工业时代污染。

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用毒品而进入急救室人次有一百万之多，但对这个产业官方管制却微乎其微：由于对销售受污染可卡因惩罚与偷运纯正可卡因惩罚一样，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，用我“中年”肺部呼吸这些不同浓度气体。在好天气时，它总看起来像这样，所以你不会看到这些污染。这潜伏，但确实存在污染。

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水资源中国最严重环境威胁之一，但却几乎没有没能在这一轮改革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应用来减少臭味，而且我们也在竭应对污染物问，比如药物。