UK supermarkets accused of 'bombarding' shoppers with cheap meat
英國超市被指控用廉價肉類“轟炸”購物者
Britain's biggest supermarkets stand accused of "bombarding" shoppers with offers of cheap meat, despite pledging to promote more meat-free diets to improve health and tackle global heating.
英國最大的幾家超市被指責用廉價肉類“轟炸”顧客，盡管它們承諾會推廣更多的無肉飲食，以改善人們的健康和應對全球變暖。
They are using money-saving promotions, such as two for the price of one, as a way of "pushing" meat, at odds with moves in the UK and globally for consumers to eat less of it, research found.
研究發現，他們正在使用省錢的促銷手段，比如買壹送壹，作為“推銷”肉類的壹種方式，這與英國和全球消費者減少食用肉類的做法不壹致。
Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons are each offering scores of deals every week on meat products such as burgers and sausages to drive sales and boost their profits, according to a report from the charity Eating Better.
慈善機構 Eating Better 的壹份報告顯示，樂購、英佰瑞、阿斯達和莫裏森每個星期都在為漢堡和香腸等肉制品提供大量優惠，以推動銷售並提高利潤。
The government-commissioned national food strategy, published last July, said Britons needed to reduce their intake of meat by 30% by 2032 in order to help combat the UK's "plague of dietary ill-health" and the climate emergency. Such a dramatic fall was "significant and it won't be easy to achieve" but was vital to help reduce methane emissions from livestock farming and free up land so it could be used to store carbon, it said.
由英國政府委托制定的國家食品戰略於去年 7 月公布，該戰略稱英國人需要在 2032 年之前將肉類攝入量減少 30% ，以幫助應對英國的“飲食不健康問題”和氣候緊急狀況。戰略指出，如此大幅度的下降“意義重大，實現起來並不容易”，但對於幫助減少畜牧業的甲烷排放、騰出土地用於儲存碳至關重要。
While meat intake in Britain is falling slowly, people still eat almost double the global average. The food strategy also noted that "our taste for ruminants … is a major contributor to climate change".
雖然英國的肉類攝入量在緩慢下降，但人們的食肉量仍然幾乎是全球平均水平的兩倍。食品戰略還指出，“我們對反芻動物的喜愛……是造成氣候變化的主要因素。”
Major changes needed to be made to the national diet within a decade "to meet health, climate and nature commitments".
英國國民飲食需要在十年內做出重大改變，“以實現對健康、氣候和自然的承諾”。
The government's climate change committee has also said people should reduce their intake of meat by 20%-50% to help the UK meet its target of reaching net zero by 2050.
英國政府的氣候變化委員會也表示，人們應該減少 20%-50% 的肉類攝入量，以幫助英國實現 2050 年達到凈零排放的目標。
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重點詞匯
bombard
/bɑ?m?bɑ?rd/
v. 轟炸，轟擊；向……大量提供信息
搭配短語：bombard sb. with sth.
例句：They bombarded him with questions.
stand
/st?nd/
v. 處於（某種狀態或情形）；站立
搭配短語：stand empty
搭配短語：stand prepared / ready to do sth.
pledge
/pled?/
v. 正式承諾，發誓保證
搭配短語：pledge to do sth.
例句：The government pledged to root out corruption.
詞義辨析：pledge, promise
這兩個詞都有“承諾”的意思，但 promise 側重指主觀意願，而 pledge 是正式用詞，強調通過鄭重許諾、協議等保證承擔某壹義務或遵守某壹原則。
meat-free
/?mi?t?fri?/
adj. 沒有肉的，無肉的
相關詞匯：meat（n. 肉類）
詞根詞綴：-free（與名詞構成形容詞，表示無什麽）
相關詞匯：sugar-free（adj. 無糖的）
相關詞匯：salt-free（adj. 無鹽的）
push
/p?/
v. 推銷；勸說；推
例句：He pushed a new product through the interview.
at odds with
與……有分歧
英文釋義：If someone is at odds with someone else, or if two people are at odds, they are disagreeing with each other.
例句：He's always at odds with his father.
相關詞匯：odd（adj. 奇怪的；奇數的）
相關詞匯：odds（n. 可能性；概率）
搭配短語：odds of success
move
/mu?v/
n. 行動，舉措；移動
搭配短語：a wise move
近義詞：action（n. 行動）
例句：They have made no move to resolve the conflict.
score
/sk?r/
n. 許多，大量
搭配短語：scores of students
近義詞：many
deal
/di?l/
n. 促銷；協議；交易
搭配短語：make a deal with sb.
搭配短語：a good deal
搭配短語：lightning deals
搭配短語：7-day deals
例句：OK, it's a deal.
commission
/k?m?.?n/
v. 委托；授權
詞性拓展：commission（n. 委員會）
詞根詞綴：com-（表示強調）
相關詞匯：mission（n. 使命）
搭配短語：commission sb. to do sth.
例句：The company commissioned her to design a poster.
intake
/?n.te?k/
n. 攝入量，攝取量
詞根詞綴：in-（表示進入）
相關詞匯：take（v. 取）
搭配短語：a high / low intake of sth.
例句：Try to reduce your intake of fat.
combat
/?kɑ?m.b?t/
v. 打擊；戰鬥
詞根詞綴：com-（表示強調）
相關詞匯：bat（v. 擊打）
搭配短語：to combat crime
詞性拓展：combat（n. 戰鬥）
搭配短語：combat troops
plague
/ple?ɡ/
n. 煩擾；瘟疫；災害
例句：Inflation is a recurrent plague.
dietary
/?da?.?.ter.i/
adj. 飲食的，與飲食相關的
相關詞匯：diet（n. 飲食）
詞根詞綴：-ary（表示有關的）
搭配短語：dietary habits
ill-health
/?l ?helθ/
n. 健康不佳
相關詞匯：ill（adj. 生病的）
例句：He retired early because of ill-health.
methane
/?me.θe?n/
n. 甲烷，沼氣
例句：Methane is one of the principal gases contributing to the greenhouse effect.
emission
/i?m?.?n/
n. （光、熱、氣等的）發出，排放
詞根詞綴：-sion（表示名詞）
相關詞匯：emit（v. 發出）
搭配短語：emit a sound
搭配短語：emit a smell
搭配短語：emit gas
livestock
/?la?v.stɑ?k/
n. 家畜，牲畜
相關詞匯：live（adj. 活的）
相關詞匯：stock（n. 家畜）
ruminant
/?ru?.m?.n?nt/
n. 反芻動物
英文釋義：ruminant is an animal that brings back food from its stomach and chews it again
例句：Cows and sheep are both ruminants.
詞性拓展：ruminant（adj. 反芻的）
搭配短語：ruminant animals
net zero
/?net ?z?r.o?/
adj. 凈零的
相關詞匯：net（adj. 凈得的）
搭配短語：net profit
搭配短語：net loss
搭配短語：net zero emissions
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