外国人最想和你聊的时事话题：噪音污染

     Most of the cities were affected by light noise pollution.
     多数城市受到轻度噪声污染。
     The civil aviation department shall take effective measures to mitigate environmental noise pollution.
     民航部门应当采取有效措施，减轻环境噪声污染。
     The State applies an elimination system for out-dated equipment that produces serious environmental noise pollution.
     国家对环境噪声污染严重的落后设备实行淘汰制度。
     Enterprises and institutions that produce environmental noise pollution must maintain normal operation of the facilities for prevention and control of such pollution.
     产生环境噪声污染的企事业单位，必须保持防治环境噪声污染的设施的正常使用。
     Any enterprise or institution that produces serious environmental noise pollution in an area where noise-sensitive structures are concentrated shall be ordered to control the pollution within a time limit.
     对于在噪声敏感建筑物集中区域内造成严重环境噪声污染的企事业单位，限期治理。
     How to determine this noise pollution case?
     这起噪声污染案件如何定性？
     Industrial enterprises that produce environmental noise pollution shall take effective measures to minimize the impact of noise on the living environment of the neighborhood.
     产生环境噪声污染的工业企业，应当采取有效措施，减轻噪声对周围生活环境的影响。
     It is noise pollution that we need to control in order to help people live more happily.
     我们需要控制的是噪声污染，这样才有助于人们生活得更愉快。
     Motor vehicles must be regularly serviced and kept in good repair in order to maintain excellent technical performance and help prevent and control environmental noise pollution.
     机动车辆必须加强维修和保养，保持技术性能良好，防治环境噪声污染。
     After doubling the frequency of noise-polluted signal, the bandwidth of AM noise is often extended by a factor of N(N-number of doubling frequency).
     这种被噪声污染了的信号倍频后，通常调幅噪声的频宽扩大N倍(N 为倍频次数)。
     Urban and community planning shall be rationally refined. Control over the noise caused by transportation, construction and social activity will be tightened.
     合理进行城市和社区规划，加强城市交通、施工工地、社会生活噪声污染控制。
     Practice shows that the said silencer has remarkable noise-reducing effectiveness, reducing noise from exhausting outlet of the steam turbine from 115 dB (A) to 63 dB (A), improving greatly the working environment, decreasing the noise pollution.
     实践证明，该消音器消音效果明显，可将汽轮机排汽口的噪音由115 dB(A)降至63 dB(A)，使工作环境大为改善，减轻了噪声污染。
     A comparison of the present results with the available information of noise level survey in the cities of foreign countries shows that noise pollution in Shanghai is very serious.
     与国外某些大城市相对照，上海市的噪声污染程度较为严重。
     When the automobile drive into or out of the underground garage of the residential area, there will be noise pollution on the passageway ramp.
     车辆进、出地下车库时，在出入口坡道上会产生噪声污染。
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     Policeman: Anybody in?
     警察：有人在家吗？
     Maria: Yes, is there anything to help?
     玛利亚：有，请问您有什么事情吗？
     Policeman: Hello, I am from the police station. I come to ask you a few questions. Your neighbor has complained to me that you are creating a nuisance in the vicinity.
     警察：你好，我是警察。我来这里有几个问题问你。 你的邻居向我投诉，说你在这个社区制造噪声。
     Maria: Could you tell me more specific, sir?
     玛利亚：警官，你可以说得更详细点吗？
     Policeman: He called to tell us that you often hold a party in your house. The noise is loud enough to wake up the dead.
     警察：他打电话告诉我们你经常在家里聚会。声音大得很，足以吵醒死人。
     Maria: As a matter of fact, I hold the party at times, not quite frequently. In addition to this, we didn't play the music very loudly and just loud enough for us to hear.
     玛利亚：事实上，我偶尔聚会，但并不是很频繁。再说，我们的音乐声并不大，只是我们自己能够听到而已。
     Policeman: Not quite frequently? He said you hold the party every weekend late into the wee hours.
     警察：还不频繁？人家说你每周末都聚会，持续到凌晨一两点。
     Maria: If so, I am afraid that you have been mislead. Sir, I have to admit I do hold the party sometimes at weekend, but not every week. Besides, every time we ended up with the party at around half past 10 p.m.
     玛利亚：如果是这样的话，恐怕你已经被误导了。是的，先生，我不得不承认，我确实有时候在周末聚会，但不是每一周都聚。除此之外，每次我们在大约十点半左右就结束了。
     Policeman: Anyhow, you are forbidden to do that in a residential area, which is a kind of sound pollution.
     警察：无论如何，你也不该在居民区聚会，这是一种噪音污染。
     Maria: Sound pollution? How can it be sound pollution? It's just a party.
     玛利亚：噪音污染？怎么会是噪音污染呢？我只不过是聚会而已。
     Policeman: It belongs to sound pollution if it makes other people feel uncomfortable and influence other people's normal lives.
     警察：只要是他人感觉不舒服，影响到他人的正常生活就属于噪音污染。
     Maria: Oh my god, I've never thought that I'll bring such big trouble to our neighbor.
     玛利亚：哦，天啊，我从没想过我会给邻居带来如此大的麻烦。
     Policeman: You can take your friend to the amusement places and entertain them there.
     警察：你可以带你的朋友去娱乐场所，在那里款待他们。
     Maria: I can't agree with you more, sir. I promise that won't happen again. Thanks.
     玛利亚：我完全同意你的观点，警官。我保证再也不会发生这种事了，谢谢。