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Greenpeace 国际环保组织：绿色和平

绿色和平是一个全球性的环保组织，致力于以实际行动推动积极的改变，保护地球环境与世界和平。绿色和平成立于1971年，目前在世界40多个国家和地区设有分部，拥有超过280万名支持者。

Company Perspectives:

Our mission: Greenpeace is an independent, campaigning organization that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and force solutions for a green and peaceful future. Greenpeace's goal is to ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity. Greenpeace organizes public campaigns for: The protection of oceans and ancient forests. The phase out of fossil fuels and the promotion of renewable energy to stop climate change. The elimination of toxic chemicals. The prevention of genetically modified organisms being released into nature. An end to the nuclear threat and nuclear contamination. Safe and sustainable trade. Greenpeace does not solicit or accept funding from governments, corporations or political parties. Greenpeace neither seeks nor accepts donations that could compromise its independence, aims, objectives or integrity. Greenpeace relies on the voluntary donations of individual supporters, and on grant support from foundations. Greenpeace is committed to the principles of non-violence, political independence and internationalism. In exposing threats to the environment and in working to find solutions, Greenpeace has no permanent allies or enemies.

Key Dates:

1971: A group of environmental activists come together to protest the testing by the U.S. military of a 5-megaton bomb under Amchitka (安奇卡岛), part of the Aleutian Islands chain (阿留申群岛) in Alaska.

1972: Greenpeace Foundation is founded and begins raising funds.

1979: David McTaggart, the central figure among various groups operating under the Greenpeace name, consolidates these diverse factions as Greenpeace International and assumes leadership of the organization into the mid-1990s.

1987: The French Navy admits to bombing a Greenpeace oceangoing vessel carrying protesters of France's nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean and agrees to pay damages to the activist organization.

1991: The group's efforts to protect Antarctica result in the signing of the Antarctica Treaty, which placed a 50-year moratorium on mining in the region.

1992: Continuing pressure from Greenpeace leads the French government to agree to end its nuclear testing program.

1995: Due to the activities of Greenpeace, a summit is convened in which the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, and China draft the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

1998: Greenpeace successfully lobbies the European Union to set up controls on the use of genetically engineered (GE) crops by EU member nationals.

2003: The group's continued campaigning against GE crops and foods lead to the development of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

2005: Le Monde reveals that then President François Mitterand himself had ordered the bombing on the Greenpeace vessel involved in the protesting of France's nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean.

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用今日所学将下面的句子译成英语。

1. 他当着她的面摔上了门。

2. 他宁可自杀，也不叛投敌人。

3. 看我变身成佩内洛普•克鲁兹！

The princess diaries《公主日记》1 精讲之二 考考你 参考答案

1. Well, carriage, obviously. Hairstyle. Complexion... Stop! Eyes...lovely...but hidden beneath bushman eyebrows. The neck is seemly. Ears... like her father.

嗯，很显然，仪态有问题。发型，皮肤……停！眼睛……很可爱，但是眉毛太浓又杂乱无章，显不出来眼睛。颈部线条很好。耳朵……像她的父亲。

2. When walking in a crowd, one is under scrutiny all the time. So we don't slump, like this. We drop the shoulders, we think tall, we tuck under and transfer the weight from one foot to-- No. Princesses never cross their legs in public.

当走在人群中的时候，人们会注意我们的一举一动。因此我们不能这样耷拉着走路。要挺胸，充满威严，下巴收回，把重心从一条腿移到——不行。作为公主是从来不在公共场合跷二郎腿的。