晨读272期：牛羊打嗝也要收税？不愧是新西兰！

可可英语晨读第272期是关于新西兰计划对牛羊征收“打嗝税”的报道，牛羊打嗝竟然释放甲烷，引发一系列问题，比如全球变暖等。这是一片饶有趣味的英语短文。

晨读272期|牛羊打嗝也要收税？不愧是新西兰！

• 文本导读
  • Climate change: New Zealand's plan to tax cow and sheep burps
    • 气候变化：新西兰计划对牛羊征“打嗝税”
  • Climate change
    • New Zealand's plan
      • to tax cow and sheep burps
  • 气候变化
    • 新西兰计划
      • 对牛羊征“打嗝税”
  • New Zealand has unveiled a plan to tax sheep and cattle burps
    • 新西兰公开了一项对牛羊征“打嗝税”的计划
  • New Zealand
    • has unveiled
      • a plan
  • 新西兰
    • 公开了
      • 一项计划
  • to tax sheep and cattle burps
  • 对牛羊征“打嗝税”
  • in a bid to tackle one of the country's biggest sources of greenhouse gases.
    • 以解决该国来源最大的温室气体。
  • in a bid to tackle
    • one of the country's
  • 以解决
    • 该国
  • biggest sources of
    • greenhouse gases.
  • 来源最大的
    • 温室气体
  • It would make it the first nation to charge farmers for the methane emissions from the animals they keep.
    • 这将使得新西兰成为第一个因饲养动物排放甲烷而对农民征税的国家。
  • It would
    • make it
      • the first nation
  • 这将
    • 使得新西兰
      • 成为第一个……国家
  • to charge farmers
    • for the methane emissions
  • 对农民征税
    • 因排放甲烷而
  • from the animals
    • they keep
  • 动物排放
    • 他们所饲养的
  • New Zealand is home to just over five million people,
    • 新西兰人口仅有500多万
  • New Zealand is
    • home to
      • just over five million people
  • 新西兰
    • 拥有
      • 仅500多万人口
  • along with around 10 million cattle and 26 million sheep.
    • 但却有约1000万头牛和2600万头羊
  • along with
    • around
      • 10 million cattle
        • and 26 million sheep
  • 但
    • 有约
      • 1000万头牛
        • 和2600万头羊
  • Almost half the country's total greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, mainly methane.
    • 新西兰几乎半数温室气体排放都来自农业，主要是甲烷。
  • Almost half
    • the country's total
      • greenhouse gas emissions
  • 几乎半数
    • 新西兰（总数）
      • 温室气体排放
  • come from
    • agriculture
      • mainly methane
  • 来自
    • 农业
      • 主要是甲烷
  • However, agricultural emissions have previously not been included in New Zealand's emissions trading scheme ,
    • 然而，农业排放此前从未包含在新西兰的排放交易计划中，
  • However
    • agricultural emissions
      • have previously
  • 然而
    • 农业排放
      • 此前
  • not been included
    • in New Zealand's emissions trading scheme
  • 从未包含
    • 在新西兰的排放交易计划中
  • which has been criticised by those calling for the government to do more to stop global warming.
    • 也因此遭到很多人士的批评，他们呼吁政府为停止全球变暖做出更多行动。
  • which has been criticised
    • by those
      • calling fo
  • 也因此遭到……批评
    • 他们
      • 呼吁
  • the government
    • to do more
      • to stop global warming
  • 政府
    • 做出更多行动
      • 为停止全球变暖
• 重点词汇
  • burp
    • a reflex that expels wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth 打嗝
    • There followed a barely audible burp
  • bid
    • an effort to do sth or to obtain sth 努力争取
    • Sydney made a successful bid to host the Olympic Games.
  • methane
    • a gas without colour or smell, that burns easily and is used as fuel. Natural gas consists mainly of methane . 甲烷；沼气
    • Methane is a colourless gas that has no smell. Natural gas consists mostly of methane.
  • scheme
    • a plan or system for doing or organizing sth 计划，方案，体系，体制
    • There's a new scheme in our town for recycling plastic bottles
• 延伸阅读
  • "There is no question that we need to cut the amount of methane we are putting into the atmosphere, and an effective emissions pricing system for agriculture will play a key part in how we achieve that," New Zealand's climate change minister James Shaw said.
  • 新西兰气候变化大臣詹姆斯·肖恩表示，“毫无疑问我们需要减少向大气中排放甲烷，有效的农业排放定价系统将对我们如何达成这一计划发挥重要作用。”
  • Under the proposal farmers will have to pay for their gas emissions from 2025. The plan also includes incentives for farmers who reduce emissions through feed additives, while planting trees on farms could be used to offset emissions.
  • 根据该提议，从2025年开始，农民需为他们产生的气体排放付费。该倡议还提出激励措施，鼓励农民通过饲料添加剂来减少排放，而在农场上种植更多树也可以抵消碳排放。
  • Andrew Hoggard — who is a dairy farmer and the national president of Federated Farmers of New Zealand — told the BBC that he broadly approved of the proposals.
  • 新西兰农民联盟主席、奶农安德鲁·霍佳德告诉BBC，他总体上赞同这些提议。
  • "We've been working with the government and other organisations on this for years to get an approach that won't shut down farming in New Zealand, so we've signed off on a lot of stuff we're happy with."
  • “数年来我们一直在和政府及其他组织努力找到一种让新西兰的农业得以继续的方法，因此我们签署了很多让我们满意的文件。”