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Projects such as the American Apprenticeship Initiativeshowthat nonprofits, industry associations, staffing companies and other private firmscan makeit easier for employers to ramp up, at a cost of about $4,000 per apprentice.

美国学徒计划等项目表明，非营利组织、行业协会、人员派遣公司和其他私营公司可以让雇主更容易地提高产能，相对的，在每个学徒身上花费的成本约为4,000美元。

1.ramp up: if a company ramps up an activity, it increases it

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Restoring dried-out wetlands could avoid emissions equivalent to more than 100 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide by the end of the century, about a tenth of all expected human-caused emissions over the same period.

到本世纪末，恢复干涸的湿地可以避免近1000多亿吨二氧化碳的排放，相当于同期预计人类产生的总排放量的十分之一。

The amount of greenhouse gases emitted by wetlands depends on the amount of water in them. When wetland soil is covered in water, it emits large amounts ofmethane. When dry, wetlands emit less methane, but the dead plants and other organisms within them decompose and release carbon dioxide and potentnitrous oxide.

湿地排放的温室气体量取决于湿地中的水量。当湿地土壤被水覆盖时，它会释放大量的甲烷。干燥时，湿地排放的甲烷较少，但其中死亡的植物和其他有机物会腐化分解，释放出二氧化碳和强效的一氧化二氮。

The researchers estimated that restoring the more than 4 million square kilometres of degraded wetlands to an ideal water level would avoid between 100 and 400gigatonnesof carbon-equivalent emissions by the end of the century – a greater reduction than what would be achieved with all of the forest restoration projects that countries around the world have committed to.

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Preventing degradation of intact wetlands would avoid an additional 150 to 650 billion tonnes of emissions by the end of the century. Regions with the greatest potential for emissions reductions include Siberia, Canada, the Congo, Brazil and Indonesia.

在本世纪末之前，防止湿地整体退化将进一步减少1500至6500亿吨的碳排放。减少排放潜力最大的地区包括西伯利亚、加拿大、刚果、巴西和印度尼西亚。

Restoring wetlandscompetes withother ways these lands are used, but effective restoration is happening, says Chris Evans at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. A project in Europe is researching ways to restore wetlands without displacing agriculture by growing food onpeatlands. China has a new law to protect more than half of its wetlands by 2025. In the US,beaversare helping to dam water and rewet wetlands, too.

英国生态学和水文学中心的克里斯·埃文斯说，恢复湿地会与其他湿地利用方式形成竞争，但是现在也存在有效的湿地恢复方式。欧洲的一个项目正在研究如何在不取代农业的情况下，通过在泥炭地上种植粮食的方式恢复湿地。中国通过了一项新的法律，要求在2025年之前对半数以上的湿地形成保护。在美国，海狸也在帮助筑起水坝，复湿那些湿地。

本文节选自：New Scientist（新科学家）

发布时间：2022.08.25

作者：James Dinneen

原文标题：Rewetting dried wetlands could stop 100 billion tons of CO2 emissions

词汇积累

1.methane

英/ ˈmiːθeɪn /美/ ˈmeθeɪn /

n.甲烷，沼气

2.nitrous

英/ ˈnaɪtrəs /美/ ˈnaɪtrəs /

adj.氮的；硝石的；含氮的

3.gigaton

英/ ˈɡɪɡəˌtʌn /美/ ˈdʒɪɡəˌtʌn /

n.十亿吨

4.peatland

英/ ˈpiːtlənd /美/ ˈpiːtlənd /

n.泥炭地

5.beaver

英/ ˈbiːvə(r) /美/ ˈbiːvər /

n.河狸，海狸；海狸毛皮；<史>海狸皮帽；海狸呢（一种似海狸毛皮的厚羊毛布料）；勤劳的人；（Beaver）小童子军（加入童子军协会的约六七岁的男孩）；<英，旧，非正式>大胡子男人；头盔面甲的下部，防护面罩的上部，活动防护罩；<美，俚>（从性繁殖角度看待的）女人；<美，俚>女性生殖器，阴部

v.<非正式>勤奋工作

词组搭配

1.nitrous oxide [无化]一氧化二氮；笑气（等于 laughing gas）

2.compete with 与……竞争

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原句：a greater reduction than what would be achieved with all of the forest restoration projects that countries around the world have committed to.

结构： It is a greater XX than what would be achieved with all of XX that XX have committed to.

例句：It is a greater success than what would be achieved with all of the effort that all departments within the administration have committed to.

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