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1.up to 多达
The number of the population in China has been up to 1.3 billion for a few years.
中国的总人口已经达到13亿好几年了。
2.have the wrong idea about 误解
Do you think people have the wrong idea about you?
那么你是否认为人们误解了你？
n. 人口 ，(全体)居民，人数
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- Jorik Boer makes a living rescuing some of them as head of the Boer Group,
- 博尔集团的总裁约里克·博尔依靠回收这些衣物赚钱，
- a Dutch family business that began a century ago on the streets of Rotterdam
- 他的荷兰家族生意始于百年前的鹿特丹，
- with his great-grandfather collecting rags, metal, and paper in a cart.
- 从博尔的曾祖父用手推车收集废布、金属、纸头开始。
- Today, from his base in Dordrecht, Boer runs five plants in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Germany.
- 今天，他坐镇多德雷赫特的总部，经营着设在荷兰、比利时、法国和德国的五家工厂。
- Together they collect and sort -- and resell for reuse or recycling -- up to 460 tons of discarded clothing a day.
- 他们每天收集、分类、卖给回收站或二手市场的丢弃衣物总量可达460吨。
- People have the wrong idea about what happens when they drop clothes into a donation bin, Boer said;
- 博尔说，人们对自己将旧衣服投入捐赠箱后发生的一切有所误解；
- they think the clothes are given directly to needy people.
- 他们以为那些衣服会直接被送给有需要的人。
- What usually happens instead is that companies like Boer buy donated clothing, sort it, and resell it -- all over the world.
- 事实是，通常由类似博尔集团的公司收购捐赠的衣物，经过分类转卖到世界各地。
- "You need a lot of experience to know where you can sell and reuse a piece of clothing," Boer said.
- “你需要丰富的经验，才能确知一件衣物能够销往哪里、重新利用。”博尔说。
- Through the window behind him, I could see the rapid but practiced movements of women pulling clothes from conveyors,
- 通过他身后的窗子，可以看到女工们快速而熟练地从传送带拉下衣服，
- examining each item briefly, then pivoting and tossing it into one of 60 or so bags.
- 逐件稍作检视，然后转身丢进约60个分拣袋中的一个。
- Each woman sorts about three tons a day, Boer said.
- 博尔说，每名女工每天约分拣3吨衣物。
- Sorters must have an eye for fashion -- especially for the best stuff, just 5 or 10 percent of the total, which makes most of Boer's profit.
- 做这事必须有时尚眼光--尤其是对于仅占总量5%-10%的优等品，它们是博尔的主要收入来源。
- In Russia and eastern Europe, prized items such as women's underwear can fetch up to five euros a kilogram ($2.50 a pound).
- 在俄罗斯和东欧，女性内衣这类热门货可卖出每公斤5欧元（一磅2.5美元）的好价钱。
- Most lower quality material gets shipped in 55-kilogram bales to Africa, where it's sold for as little as 50 cents a kilo.
- 大部分次品被打成每个55公斤的大捆，运往非洲，售价可低廉到每公斤0.5美元。
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