英语日常会话：从海鲜谈起 [含声频]
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来自世界不同地方的六位学生在美国相遇。他们都是交换学生，到美国大学就读一个学期，学习英语，了解美国文化，同时修专业课程。英语“日常会话” (Everyday
Conversations)系列围绕这六位学生在美国的经历展开。这套材料适于中级或中级以上英语水平的学生使用。
今天，两个学生（Akinyi and
Lee）谈到不应让海产捕捞威胁海洋健康，以及消费者需求会对此产生的影响。
Akinyi: Thanks for coming with me to
this
symposium on
sustainable fishing.
Lee: It’s my pleasure! As an
environmental science major, this is something I’m very interested
in. But I’m surprised a business major is interested in this
topic.
Akinyi: Well, marine life in my
country is being destroyed because of
unsustainable fishing.
Lee: Why? Is there
overfishing in your country?
Akinyi: Yes, it’s a problem
everywhere in the world, I think. But it can change. People can
choose to buy only
sustainable seafood. Consumer
demand makes a difference!
Lee: Now you’re sounding like a
business major.
Akinyi: Well, business, environment,
food, our health — they’re all connected.
Lee: That’s a really good point. We
need to think about all of those. Otherwise, we’ll keep destroying
our
marine ecosystems until
there are no more fish in the sea!
让我们来学习一些词语（也可阅读英文解释）：
A
symposium ：专家围绕某一专题举行的正规研讨会
Sustainable
fishing：可持续捕捞，指维持海洋生物数量并且不破坏海洋健康或海生物栖息环境的渔业运作方式。可持续捕捞方法不会逐渐导致鱼类数量减少，也不会影响或很少影响环境。
Unsustainable fishing
:不可持续捕捞，即将会逐步导致鱼类数量减少的捕捞方式。
Overfishing：过度捕捞，指捕捞海洋生物的速度超过了它们的繁殖速度。
Sustainable seafood
：可持续海产品，指以能够维持海洋生物数量而且不破坏海洋健康或栖息环境的方式捕捞或养殖的水产。
Consumer demand：消费者（对一种产品或服务的）需求或需求度
A
marine
ecosystem：海洋生态系统，指构成海洋环境的一切，既包括有生命的植物和鱼类，也包括石头、泥沙和水等物质。
There are no more fish in the sea：海中不再有鱼。在这里，说话人是在转借一句成语
“There are plenty of fish in the sea.”
（海中有很多鱼[天涯何处无芳草]。）这句成语常用来表示，尽管眼前与某人的关系结束，但世界上还有其他人可遇可交。在以上对话中，说话人用
“there are no more fish in the sea”来表示，不可持续的捕捞有可能使海洋的所有鱼灭绝。
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“日常会话”由美国国务院教育与文化事务局英语语言项目处（Office of English Language
Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural
Affairs）资深项目官员海蒂·豪兰（Heidi
Howland）编写。
Six students from around the world meet. What do they have in
common? They are all exchange students studying at a U.S.
university for a semester. Throughout the semester, they learn more
English, learn about U.S. culture, and learn more about their
fields of study. This series of Everyday Conversations is about these six
students and their experiences during a semester at a university in
the U.S. These conversations are for intermediate-level
English-language learners or higher.
This conversation is about the importance of fishing in a way that
doesn’t harm the health of the oceans. Students
(
Akinyi and
Lee) talk about good and bad
types of fishing — and how consumer demand for fish can have an
effect.
Akinyi: Thanks for coming with me to
this
symposium on
sustainable fishing.
Lee: It’s my pleasure! As an
environmental science major, this is something I’m very interested
in. But I’m surprised a business major is interested in this
topic.
Akinyi: Well, marine life in my
country is being destroyed because of
unsustainable
fishing.
Lee: Why? Is there
overfishing in your country?
Akinyi: Yes, it’s a problem
everywhere in the world, I think. But it can change. People can
choose to buy only
sustainable seafood. Consumer
demand makes a difference!
Lee: Now you’re sounding like a
business major.
Akinyi: Well, business, environment,
food, our health — they’re all connected.
Lee: That’s a really good point. We
need to think about all of those. Otherwise, we’ll keep destroying
our
marine ecosystems until
there are no more fish in the sea!
Now let’s review the vocabulary.
A
symposium is a formal meeting at
which experts discuss a particular topic.
Sustainable fishing is fishing in a way
that can maintain the population of the fish without harming the
health or habitat of the oceans. Using sustainable fishing, the
fish population does not decrease over time, and there are few or
no environmental impacts.
When
unsustainable fishing occurs,
the populations of fish decline over time because of the methods of
fishing used.
Overfishing is taking wildlife from the sea
faster than the wildlife can reproduce (produce babies).
Sustainable seafood is seafood that is
caught or farmed in a way that can maintain the population of the
seafood without harming the health or habitat of the oceans.
The amount that
consumers desire a
product or service (based on its availability) is consumer
demand.
A
marine ecosystem is everything
that exists in a marine (ocean) environment. This includes living
things such as plants and fish, and things that are not living such
as rocks, soil and water.
There are no more fish in the sea: The speaker is
playing with the idiom “There are plenty of fish in the sea.” This
idiom is often said to someone whose relationship has ended; it
means that there are other people in the world to meet and date. In
the conversation above, the speaker is using the phrase “there are
no more fish in the sea” to mean that unsustainable fishing can
kill all of the fish in the ocean.
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Everyday Conversations are developed by the State Department’s
Heidi Howland, a senior program officer in the Office of English
Language Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural
Affairs.
