In this picture, it is clear that there are a lot of leftovers on the person’s plate. The food is being dumped into the garbage can. In addition, the garbage can is already full of leftovers. It seems that this person doesn’t often finish meals, which results in a lot of food waste. One of the main reasons why people waste food is that they buy more food than they need.


在這張圖片中，很明顯地這個人的盤子裡有很多吃剩的飯菜。食物正被倒進垃圾桶裡。此外，垃圾桶已經裝滿了剩菜剩飯。這個人似乎常常不把飯菜吃完，這導致了大量的食物浪費。人們浪費食物的主要原因之一是他們購買比所需的量還更多的食物。

 

生活必備字詞：

waste　n. & vt. 浪費

dump　vt. 傾倒

garbage can　　垃圾桶

garbage　n. 垃圾（集合名詞，不可數）


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本文節錄自《常春藤生活英語》雜誌，完整內容請見十月號。

 

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