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中英文本
Walk through any town or village in the Faroe Islands, located between Iceland and Scotland, and it will be hard not to notice the green grass roofed houses on every street. A local historian says, because of the lack of natural building resources on the islands, the Vikings used grass on their roofs to provide stability and extra insulation.
走在位于冰岛和苏格兰之间的法罗群岛的任何一个城镇或者村庄，你都很难不注意到每条街上绿色的草坪屋顶。一名当地的历史学家说，由于岛上缺乏天然的建筑，北欧海盗利用屋顶上的草来增加稳定性和额外的隔离。
"The grass is something that roofs here when the Viking came and started it, or maybe even the monks started it with the grass roof. We don't know."
“这些草是当初北欧海盗开始来到这里建造房屋的时候种植的，或许甚至是僧侣们开始建造这种种满草地屋顶。我们不知道。”
He says young people on the islands continue to build their houses with traditional grass roofs, not only to continue the tradition, but also because there are environmental advantages. Grass roofs filter pollutants and CO2 out of the air.
他说现在岛上的年轻人建造房屋的时候仍然建造草做的屋顶，不仅仅是为了延续这个传统，而且因为环保方面的优势。屋顶上的草可以净化空气中的污染物和二氧化碳。
"Here, you have this waterproof membrane, and the first you have to do that, the, actually, grass is against this waterproof membrane. The root is up. To keep to hold this made mechanical, and then you have to put this fishnet here, and this will be tied around the edges of the house. Afterwards you take the second lay of the grass and put it over."
“这里有一些防水薄膜，事实上，你要想到的第一件事是，草根会把包膜穿破的。如果要切实可行的话，你必须铺一些鱼网，这些鱼网会被绑在房子边缘。之后你要在上面铺设第二层草。”
Yore says having a grass roof is a way for people on the islands to take responsibility for the environment. He says, if a house has 150 square meters of grass roofing, the grass would produce enough oxygen for one person per day. Jacob Mittyord has incorporated a grass roof into his new house design.
约尔说建造草制屋顶可以增强岛上居民的环保责任感。他说，如果一个一个房间有150平方米的草制屋顶，这些草可以产生足够一个人一天呼吸的氧气。雅各布·米蒂奥德在他的新的房屋设计中就加入了草坪的屋顶。
"There are two reasons. The first is the aesthetic, we want it to look nice. And the second is the tradition. It's an old tradition in the Faroe Islands, so we asked our architect to get some solutions, where we could combine this new art style, that (went) well together with this old fashion."
“有两个原因。第一是从审美的角度讲，我们希望新房子看上去漂亮。第二点是传统。这是法罗群岛的一个古老的传统，所以我们请我们的建筑师想出一个解决方案，能够融合这种新的建筑风格和古老的样式。”
Last fall, former U.S. president Bill Clinton visited the Faroe’s capital for a conference, and spoke on the effects of climate change.
去年秋天，前任美国总统克林顿造访法罗群岛，就气候变化的影响发表讲话。
"I look at the old-fashioned roofs with the grass on it, and I was thinking how far ahead of us you're now. All over America we're in a mad rush to green all of our roofs, to put vegetation on our roofs, to cut down on the electric cost and the CO2 emissions that come from having inefficient buildings."
“我看了一下这种种草的古老风格的屋顶，我在想，你们现在远远的超前于我们。整个美国都在忙着绿化我们的屋顶，在屋顶上种植植物来降低由于低效的建筑带来的电力成本和二氧化碳排放量。”
The Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands has a grass roof on his house. "First of all, I think it's very important that we all, very all, we in the society, politicians, or a school teacher, or a fisherman, that we're putting the climate in focus, that we're thinking about the climate change all the time."
法罗群岛总理的住宅也是草坪屋顶。首先，我认为，我们社会中的每一个人，无论是从政者、教师，还是渔民，我们要把气候作为重点，要时刻关注气候变化是非常重要的。
重点讲解
1.because of... 因为……，由于……
I failed in my career as a writer of fiction entirely because of deficiencies in the education system.
我的小说作家生涯失败了，原因完全是因为教育体制的缺陷。
2.take responsibility for... 对……负责
Don't worry. If anything goes wrong, I'll take responsibility for it.
没关系，出了问题我兜着。
3.ahead of... 在……之前
I think he made a tactical blunder by announcing it so far ahead of time.
我认为他在时机远未成熟时就把这事说了出去是一种失策。
