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Section 27 Environment What exactly is the environment?到底什么是环境? Its the world around us.是我们周围的世界。 You mean the sky and trees and things like that?你指的是天空、树木之类的吗? Well, yes. But it can be even closer to home.没错，但可以说它更接近我们的家。 In fact, your home is an environment.实际上，你的家也是一个环境。 So it is anything that is around us, yah?那么，就是指我们周围的一切吗? Yeah. But most people today think of it as nature.是的，但现在大多数人认为环境就是大自然。 That#39;s what I thought at first.一开始，我也这么想。 Well, it has become very important today to think of the natural environment.嗯，现在人们对自然环境的关注已经显得十分重要。 Is that because we are afraid of what is happening in nature?是不是因为我们都担心大自然发生的变化? Sure. It is really only in the last 50 years that we have realized what harm we are causing to the natural environment.没错，只是到了近50年我们才真正认识到我们对自然环境的破坏。 But the damage was started long before that, wasnrsquo;t it?但危害的产生远比这个时间更久，不是吗? | 
