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《中英對照讀新聞》Mayors promote fluorescents as ’state bulb’ 市長推廣螢光燈泡為「州燈泡」

◎俞智敏

Texas will have a favorite state bulb -- a light bulb -- along with a state flower and a state song if mayors of five large Texas cities have their way.

假如德州五大城市市長能夠如願以償，德州除了一種州花及一首州歌之外，還會有一種最受喜愛的州燈泡。

To kick off a statewide campaign to get residents to replace old light bulbs with energy-saving compact fluorescent bulbs, Texas mayors of San Antonio, Austin, Houston, Dallas and El Paso vowed to launch an effort to make the bulbs available, to encourage their use and to suggest that people give them as gifts for Christmas or other occasions.

為了開始向德州居民推廣用省電螢光燈泡來汰換舊式燈泡的活動，包括聖安東尼歐，奧斯汀，休士頓，達拉斯與艾爾帕索等德州各大城市市長矢言要大力推廣螢光燈泡，鼓勵民眾多多使用，並建議大家可在耶誕節或其他節日時，把螢光燈泡當成禮物送人。

"Individual Texans can save themselves money, and also take a lot of pressure off of utilities to not have to construct very, very expensive and polluting power plants," said Austin Mayor Will Wynn.

奧斯汀市長魏恩表示，「德州居民可因此節省金錢，同時也可減輕電力公司的壓力，不必再興建非常昂貴又會造成污染的電廠。」

Mayors said use of compact fluorescent bulbs may help reduce electric demand from power plants that emit carbon dioxide, a gas blamed for global warming. The mayors declared the compact fluorescent the "State Bulb of Texas". If every Texas household converted a single light bulb to a CFL, it would mean the equivalent in air pollution reductions of removing 55,000 cars from city streets, said El Paso Mayor John Cox.

市長們表示，使用節能的螢光燈泡可有助於減少電廠的電力需求，這些電廠會排放出造成全球暖化的溫室氣體二氧化碳。市長們宣布螢光燈泡為「州燈泡」。假如德州每個家庭都把一個舊式燈泡換成省電螢光燈泡，減少的空氣污染量就相當於從市區街頭移除55000輛汽車，艾爾帕索市長考克斯說。

新聞辭典

bulb：原指球莖，鱗莖類植物，如tulip bulbs（鬱金香球莖），亦可指燈泡，如The（light） bulb has burned out. （燈泡燒壞了。）

have one’s way：片語，指隨心所欲，為所欲為，如If she doesn’t get／have her （own） way, she sulks like a four-year old.（假如她不能為所欲為，她就會像四歲小孩一樣生氣。）

kick off：片語，指開球，亦指展開，開始某事，如I’d like to kick off the discussion with a few statistics.（我想藉由幾項統計數據來展開討論。）

來源：自由時報

 

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