惹人厭的過大車聲？交通攝影機可能正在監聽
【摘要2023-01-24.二.自由】◎盧永山
After the
relative quiet of the pandemic, New York City has come roaring back. Just
listen: Jackhammers. Honking cars and trucks. Rumbling subway trains. Sirens.
Shouting.
在（武漢肺炎）疫情大流行期間的相對寧靜後，紐約市已開始咆哮回來。只要傾聽：電鑽、鳴喇叭的汽車和卡車、轟隆作響的地鐵、警報器、呼喊。
Over the years,
there have been numerous efforts to quiet the cacophony. One of the latest:
traffic cameras equipped with sound meters capable of identifying souped-up
cars and motorbikes emitting an illegal amount of street noise.
多年來，人們做出許多努力來平息這種噪音。其中一項最新努力：配備聲級計的交通攝影機，能夠識別發出非法街頭噪音的改裝汽車和摩托車。
At least 71
drivers have gotten tickets so far for violating noise rules during a yearlong
pilot program of the system. The city’s Department of Environmental Protection
now has plans to expand the use of the roadside sound meters.
在該系統為期1年的試驗期間，迄今至少有71名司機因違反噪音規定而收到罰單。紐約市環保局現在計畫擴大路邊聲級計的使用範圍。
New York City
already has one of the most extensive noise ordinances in the country, setting
allowable levels for a host of noisemakers, such as jackhammers and vehicles.
紐約市的規定是全美範圍最廣泛的噪音法規之一，為許多噪音製造者設定了可容許的標準，例如電鑽和車輛。
【新聞辭典】
souped-up：形容詞，改裝的。例句：He
was driving a souped-up sports car.（他開著一輛改裝的跑車）
allowable：形容詞，可允許的、正當的。例句：Resitting
the exam is allowable only under certain circumstances.（只有某些情況才允許補考。）
Greenlandʼs Grand Canyon
格陵蘭大峽谷
【摘要2023-01-24.二.壹蘋】The
discovery of Greenland’s icy Grand Canyon is quite surprising. How could
something so large exist, and we only just recently noticed it? The canyon also
helps scientists understand the environmental history of Greenland. Even though
we would like to see the canyon up close, we don’t want all the ice covering it
to melt. If it did, the world’s sea level would go up seven meters, which would
do more harm than good.
發現格陵蘭冰雪大峽谷是一件相當令人驚訝的事。這麼巨大的東西怎麼可能存在，而我們最近才注意到它？峽谷也幫助了科學家了解格陵蘭的環境史。儘管我們想近距離地觀察峽谷，但我們可不希望所有覆蓋它的冰都融化。如果真是這樣，世界的海平面將上升七公尺，這將弊大於利。
生活必備字詞：
exist vi. 存在
environmental a.
環境的
do more harm
than good 壞處多於好處，弊多於利
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