艾玛·汤普森 | 2021年“地球奋斗奖”颁奖致辞

Hello, Earth lovers. The origin of the word thrive which, of course, means the thing we all want to do. Thrive is, in fact, thrift, from the old English word thriven.

你好，地球爱好者们。单词“thrive”，当然它指的是我们想做的事情，实际上是单词“thrift”，它起源于古英语“thriven”。

We thrive and prosper by using what is to hand, what may even have been overlooked, tossed out or perhaps thrown on the fire to keep us warm.

我们通过利用身边的东西来发展繁荣自己，它们可能是被我们忽视，甚至被丢弃，或者扔进火堆让我们取暖的东西。

Waste does not make us happy. Humans were not designed to waste their resources. More of us are going to have to go back to making do and mending. And it will make us happy truly.

浪费不会使我们快乐。人类被创造不是来浪费资源的，越来越多的人将得回到将就和修缮的状态，它能使我们真正地快乐起来。

And calm the troubled waters of a collective consciousness that knows full well that the state of things at the moment is wildly unbalanced and out of kilter with everything that keeps us healthy as a species.

同时它能平息集体意识的混乱不安，让他们知道目前的状况是极度失衡的，与我们作为一个维持将康的物种格格不入。

The Earthshot for build a waste free world goes to the city of Milan.

“地球奋斗奖”：建设无废的世界的获得者是意大利米兰。

Note:

Toss sth out

to get rid of or remove something 丢弃…，抛弃…

She tossed out my old chair.

她把我的旧椅子扔了。

Make do with sth

to manage to live without things that you would like to have or with things of a worse quality than you would like 凑合；将就

We didn't have cupboards so we made do with boxes.

我们没有橱柜，只好将就用箱子了。

Out of kilter

in a state of not working well 在不正常的状态下；失常，失调

Missing more than one night's sleep can throw your body out of kilter.

超过一个晚上不睡觉会使你的身体失调。