2009年12月
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There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to scare a parent, especially one of the over-educated, eco-conscious type.
没有什么事情比有得癌症的迹象更让父母感到害怕的了,尤其对于受到过度教育、对生态环境敏感的那种人来说。
So you can imagine the reaction when a recent USA Today investigation of air quality around the nation’s schools singled out those in the smugly(自鸣得意的)green village of Berkeley, Calif., as being among the worst in the country.
所以当《今日美国》在近期公布的一份全国范围内的学校周边空气质量调查中,把加州伯克利的绿色环保小镇列为全国最差时,你可以想象到那些自鸣得意的人的反应。
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