She said that our world is getting dirtier and that many animals and plants are dying.She wanted us to think of something we can do to help and I thought all the way home and there is nothing I can do.

她说我们的地球正变得越来越脏，许多动物和植物濒临灭绝。她要我们想想自己对此能做些什么。我一路上一直在想，可是我想不出能做什么。

He contemplated washing himself in the thames, but the river appeared to be dirtier than he was

他打算在泰晤士河里洗一洗，但河水似乎比他还脏。

||1: At first, say both McKinsey and IHS, a lot of the action will be in the energy business itself: not just in drilling and pipelines but in roads and ports, and all the other activities needed to produce and distribute the fuels. ||2: Electricity production is being transformed too, with gas-fired power stations being built to replace dirtier coal-fired ones.

||1:首先，麦肯锡和IHS都表示，许多行动将发生在能源业务本身：不仅仅是在钻井和管道，而是在道路和港口，以及生产和分配燃料所需的所有其他活动。||2:电力生产也在转型，正在建设燃气发电站，以取代更脏的燃煤发电站。

||1:Various trends are at work.||2:One, evident in India and Pakistan, is an enduring tradition of activism by a robustly independent judiciary.||3:Often this has made the courts popular by comparison with the perceived lethargy, incompetence or malice of politicians.||4:Public-interest litigation and its ability to make rulings suo moto (off its own bat) have encouraged India’s Supreme Court to meddle in environmental and social policy.||5:It has forced Delhi’s buses, taxis and tuk-tuks to convert to compressed natural gas from dirtier fuels and has taken charge of India’s trees.||6:The court’s green interests might please liberals, but they rued a ruling last December that overturned a Delhi High Court decision lifting a ban on homosexuality.||7:In Pakistan the courts helped bring down Mr Musharraf, but then proceeded to hound his civilian successor, Asif Ali Zardari, through his five-year term.

||1:这其中包含了很多不同的趋势。||2:在印度与巴基斯坦，坚定又独立的司法部门有悠久的激进做派传统。||3:相对于公众心目中陈腐，无能，又阴险的政治家，法院的这一形象更受民众欢迎。||4:公益起诉的资格与独立作出裁决的能力使得印度最高法院乐于干预环境与社会政策。||5:它已经让德里的巴士、的士、嘟嘟车都抛弃了落后的燃料，换上液化天然气，并且接管了全印度的树木。||6:法院的绿色诉求或许能取悦自由派，不过他们也为去年十二月印度最高法院推翻了德里高级法院给同性恋禁令松绑的裁决而感到惋惜。||7:巴基斯坦的法院正对打倒穆沙拉夫有功，不过随后的五年总统任期中，他们又盯上了穆沙拉夫那位文职的总统继任者，阿西夫·阿里·扎尔达里。

||1:Government support is hardly surprising.||2:State-backed coal firms make money and create jobs.||3:Wind turbines and solar panels provide power only intermittently; for now, dirtier power plants are needed as back up.||4:Gas is pummelling coal in America, but remains a bit-player in India and much of South-East Asia, since it has to be imported and is relatively expensive.

||1:政府的支持不足为奇。||2:国有煤炭企业赚钱并创造就业机会。||3:风力涡轮机和太阳能电池板只能间歇性地提供电力；目前，需要更脏的发电厂作为后备。||4:在美国，天然气正在代替煤炭，但在印度和东南亚大部分地区，天然气使用比例仍然不高，因为天然气必须进口，而且相对昂贵。

Your computer keyboard is probably dirtier than a toilet seat!

你的电脑或许比马桶座圈还脏！

The floor is muddy and the carpet on it is even dirtier .

地板上有泥而且上面的地毯更脏。

The first says that central banks should get their hands dirtier during liquidity crises.

第一点说，央行应该更深的插手干预流动性危机。

In America, capital markets matter more, so the Fed had to get its hands dirtier by buying commercial paper and mortgage-backed securities.

而在美国，资本市场关系更加重大，因此美联储不得不出手购买商业票据和抵押贷款支持证券，进行政府干预。

Lignite is dirtier than black coal.

褐煤比黑煤更脏。

Most emission-reducing projects now focus on energy efficiency and switching away from dirtier fuels.

目前，多数减排项目聚焦于能源效率及转向更清洁能源。

Men have a tendency to get their hands dirtier , and long finger nails means you are tracking dirt from almost everything you touch.

男人的手更易脏，长指甲意味着你所接触的一切事物都很脏。

The more of your time you devoteto studying, the higher your grades will be, but the dirtier your apartmentwill be.

你的时间越多，投入到学习中，你的成绩会更高，但你的公寓将脏。

It’s likely that you’re still in the sharing-a-shower stage of your relationship, where you get dirtier in the shower rather than cleaner.

你们的关系仍处于使用同一个洗澡间的阶段，而且在洗澡房里，你们可能变得更脏而非更干净。

Firms in other, dirtier industries may not compare against philanthropy so well.

其他污染更严重的公司在慈善上也许无法与之相比。

If people are to have cars of their own, the already contaminated atmosphere will get even dirtier .

如果人们都要拥有私家车，已经污染的大气将变得更脏。

All faith-inspired groups struggle to square the purity of dogmatism with dirtier realities.

所有以信仰为支柱的群体挣扎着在主义纯洁性和越来越丑陋的现实中做到平衡。

Our cities will continue to become more crowded and noisome. The landscape will get more cluttered, the air and water even dirtier .

我们的城市会变得越来越拥挤，景色会变得更加杂乱，空气和水也会变得愈发肮脏。

Delhi’s air is today half as polluted as it was in 1994, and recent figures suggest that Beijing’s is now dirtier .

现在这里的空气污染只有1994年的一半，最近的数据表明北京的污染情况日益严重。

Shale gas could free the country from its dependence on coal, a dirtier fuel, which currently accounts for 95% of Polish power generation.

页岩气开采可有助于波兰摆脱对污染严重的煤炭（煤炭发电当前占据波兰电力的95%）的依赖。

The harder, dirtier , and more dangerous the place is, the more hardcore points you have.

一个地方越是困难、肮脏和危险，你融入当地生活的可能就越大。

Ms Wang employs 30 cleaners (10% of her staff) to counter local prejudice that Chinese-owned shops are dirtier than foreign ones.

因此王女士雇佣了30名清洁工（占员工总数的10%），以此来反击中国店铺比外资店铺要脏些的固有偏见。

So does this mean that children might have fewer allergies if society allows them to get dirtier and sicker?

这是否说明，如果孩子们生活中不太卫生的环境中，并经常得病的话，患上过敏症的机会就会降低呢？