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Three years ago, a study of overfishing led to sharp debate. It warned that the world's ocean fish could be almost gone by the middle of the century.
三年前,一项关于过度捕鱼的研究引起了激烈的争论. 研究警告说,全球的海洋鱼可能将会在本世纪中叶消失殆尽.
overfishing: the process of taking too many fish from the sea, a river etc, so that the number of fish in it becomes too low 过度捕捞
Lead to:引起
Lead to是新闻中很常见的表达,出现频率同样很高的近义词还有give rise to, cause, trigger等等.
Lead to
Smoking can lead to lung cancer.
抽烟可能导致肺癌.
Give rise to
These bad conditions have given rise to a lot of crime.
这些恶劣的环境已造成了许多犯罪行为。
注:give rise to在表示引起的意思时,大多时候是引起不好的事情.
Cause
Smoking can cause lung cancer.
吸烟可致肺癌.
这里再谈谈cause和bring about 的区别.
Bring about is more formal and refers to a less direct cause
bring about较文, 所表示的因果关系不那么直接:
Smoking can cause lung cancer.
吸烟可致肺癌.
The war brought about a reduction in the birth-rate.
战争导致出生率下降.
Cause can connect the result with the person, etc affected
cause可指所产生的结果与所涉及的人等有关
My car has caused me a lot of trouble.
我的汽车给我带来很多麻烦.
His parents were caused a lot of worry by his laziness.
他很懒惰, 使父母大伤脑筋.
