“My word, it does not seem a very cheerful place,” said the detective with a shiver, glancing round him at the gloomy slopes of the hill and at the huge lake of fog which lay over the Grimpen Mire.

“我说，这里可真不是个使人高兴的地方，”那侦探说着就打了个冷战，向四周望望那阴暗的山坡和在格林盆泥潭上面积成的雾海。

Conan Doyle, Arthur / The Hound of the Baskervilles柯南 道尔 / 巴斯克维尔猎犬

巴斯克维尔猎犬

柯南 道尔

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Conan Doyle, Arthur

© 1901, 1902 by A. Conan Doyle

Earlier this year, huge, foul-smelling blooms of blue algae contaminated drinking water from “Jiangsu’s Jewel,” Lake Tai.

今年早些时候，恶臭的蓝藻的大规模爆发严重污染了取自素有“江苏的明珠”之称的太湖的饮用水。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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Runaway growth and development have left about 70% of China’s lakes and rivers severely polluted, many unfit for human use of any kind.

快速的经济增长使中国大约70%的河流遭到了严重的污染，许多已经不适合人类进行任何形式的使用了。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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Indeed, nearly a half-billion Chinese lack access to clean drinking water, and the number of terminally polluted rivers and lakes grows daily.

事实上，几乎有近五亿中国人无法获得干净的饮用水，而遭到严重污染的江河湖泊的数量每天都在增加。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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