Plastic straws are especially terrible.

塑料吸管尤其可怕。

Count the number of straws it uses every day.

数一下它每天用了多少根吸管。

Birds die because of eating plastic straws and bottle caps.

鸟类因食用塑料吸管和瓶盖而死亡。

He wants to encourage more people to say no to plastic straws.

他想鼓励更多的人对塑料吸管说不。

The US alone throws away some 500 million plastic straws a day.

仅美国一天就扔掉约5亿根塑料吸管。

He asked a local restaurant to stop offering straws with every drink order.

他要求当地一家餐馆停止在点饮料时提供吸管。

Scotland and several coastal cities in the US stop people from using plastic straws as well.

苏格兰和美国的几个沿海城市也禁止人们使用塑料吸管。

Then he replaced the paper with paraffin-coated Manila paper so that straws do not become soggy.

后来他用涂上石蜡的马尼拉纸代替了普通纸，这样吸管就不会被弄湿。

Through lots of research, Cress found out that Americans use about 500 million straws every day.

通过大量的研究，Cress 发现美国人每天使用大约5亿根吸管。

Once you are done demonstrating whatever concept was in the textbook, you throw away the pipe cleaners, the straws, the cardboard tubes.

一旦你完成了课本展示的内容，你就会扔掉这些烟斗通条、吸管和硬纸管。

On their own, taking our own bags to the grocery store or quitting plastic straws, for example, will accomplish little and require very little of us.

例如，仅仅提着自己的购物袋逛杂货店或停止使用塑料吸管，这种做法本身收效甚微，而且对人们提出的要求太低。

We drew straws for who went first.

我们抽签决定谁先去。

Do you often use plastic straws?

你经常用塑料吸管吗？

Even worse, plastic straws kill ocean life.

更糟糕的是，塑料吸管会杀死海洋生物。

People in the ad were using plastic straws.

广告中的人都在使用塑料吸管。

How do plastic straws get into the ocean?

塑料吸管是如何进入海洋的呢？

Coffee house chain Starbucks has started to offer strawless cups and paper straws instead of plastic straws in almost 1,000 stores in Shanghai and Shenzhen.

咖啡连锁店星巴克在上海和深圳的近1000家门店开始提供无吸管的杯子和纸质吸管，用来代替塑料吸管。

Plastic straws are small but they are a big problem.

塑料吸管虽小，但却是个大麻烦。

McDonald's has also taken action to reduce the use of the plastic straws.

麦当劳也采取行动减少塑料吸管的使用。

The simplest way is to say "no" to single-use plastic, like straws.

最简单的方法是对一次性塑料说“不”，比如吸管。

They begin to think about whether plastic straws are necessary or not when drinking drinks.

他们开始考虑喝饮料时是否有必要使用塑料吸管。

In fact, around 500 million plastic straws are used every day in the US alone.

事实上，仅在美国每天就会使用掉大约5亿根塑料吸管。

He said he would make sure that the company cut its use of plastic straws in half.

他说，他将确保该公司将塑料吸管的使用量减少一半。

Next time if you go to a restaurant, make sure you order your drink without a straw. There are reusable straws instead.

下次如果你去餐馆，确保点饮料时不用一次性吸管。而是用可重复使用的吸管代替。

Made of 168,000 plastic straws collected from several volunteer beach cleanups, the sculpture made its first appearance at the Estella Place shopping center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

该雕塑由从几次志愿者清理海滩时收集的16.8万根塑料吸管制成，首次出现在越南胡志明市的埃斯特拉广场购物中心。

Plastic straws are by no means the biggest source of plastic pollution, but they've recently come under fire because most people don't need them to drink with and, because of their small size and weight, they cannot be recycled.

塑料吸管绝对不是塑料污染的最大来源，但是它们最近饱受抨击，因为大多数人不需要用它们来喝饮品，也因为它们尺寸小、重量轻，无法回收利用。

Errors are like straws upon the surface; if you want to find a pearl, you have to dive under it.

错误就像浮在水面的稻草；如果你要想寻找珍珠，你就得潜到它的下面。

Earthlings, ready your straws.

地球人，准备好你们的救命稻草吧！

A crude bed was covered by thick straws.

一张简陋的大竹床铺着厚厚的稻草。

There must be hundreds of straws in our crib-maybe a thousand.

我们的摇篮里肯定有几百根稻草了——或许已有上千根了。