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China's government says it's finally getting rid of the country's ivory trade once and for all.
中国政府表示将彻底禁止象牙贸易。
The international ivory trade was banned in 1989, but China has one of the largest domestic markets left in the world. The country's now planning to phase out all ivory processing and sales by the end of 2017.
国际象牙贸易在1989年被禁止，但中国拥有最大的国内市场。中国现在计划在2017年底前逐步结束所有象牙加工和销售。
That's important for conservationists because legal ivory markets often fuel demand for poaching and the illegal ivory trade.
这对于生态保护主义者来说是重要的，因为合法的象牙市场往往会激起偷猎和非法象牙贸易需求。
And poaching is still devastating elephant populations in Africa. The Great Elephant Census estimated the African elephant population dropped 30 percent from 2007 to 2014, to around 350,000 elephants.
偷猎仍在毁灭非洲大象种群。大象普查估计，非洲大象的数量从2007年到2014年下降了百分之30，到约350,000头。
Similar blanket bans on ivory trading were adopted this year by the U.S. and Hong Kong, two major markets for legal and illegal ivory
今年美国和香港也采取了类似的全面禁止象牙贸易，这是合法和非法象牙交易的两大主要市场。
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1、domestic
国内的;本国的
over 100 domestic flights a day to 15 UK destinations.
每天超过100架次国内航班飞往英国境内15个目的地
sales in the domestic market.
国内市场的销售量
家里的;家庭的;居家的
It was a scene of such domestic bliss.
这是一幅家庭如此幸福的画面。
I was called out to attend a domestic dispute.
我被叫出去解决一场家庭纠纷。
喜爱家庭生活的;乐于操持家务的
She was kind and domestic and put her family before her part-time job.
她人很好也顾家，把家庭看得比兼职工作更为重要。
2、process
过程；进程
There was total agreement to start the peace process as soon as possible.
全体一致同意尽快开始和平进程。
They decided to spread the building process over three years.
他们决定用3年时间建成。
（生物或化学的）变化过程
It occurs in elderly men, apparently as part of the ageing process.
这种情况出现在老年人当中，显然是衰老过程的一部分。
The regularity with which this occurs suggests that the process is genetically determined.
这种现象出现的规律性表明这个过程是由基因决定的。
处理（信息）
facilities to process the data, and the right to publish the results.
处理数据的设备和公开其结果的权利
The information gathered by the telescopes will be processed by computers.
通过望远镜获得的信息将由计算机进行处理。
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