【非選題】 二、英翻中【30 分】
As much as the greening of sports was a mirage to many skeptics, it is no longer a pie in the
sky now — it’s moving forward dramatically. Stadiums have installed wind and solar operations,
improved lighting efficiency, ramped up recycling efforts and diverted increasing amounts of
organic waste from the landfill through composting efforts. The payback is not just good public
relations but, increasingly, real bottom-line savings. The story of the Seattle Mariners explains how
this can work. First, he Seattle Mariners baseball team saw first-hand the financial benefits of
working for energy efficiency when it reduced natural gas use 60% and electricity use by 30% from
2006 to 2009 at Safeco Field. The Mariners now have one of the most comprehensive
environmental programs in sports. The change was questioned by a lot of naysayers, but the
numbers eventually convinced them. Now the Mariners’ stadium is the exemplary model of green
practice.