install solar panels安裝太陽能電池板
Buy an electric car, install solar panels, conserve water.買一輛電動車，安裝太陽能電池板，節約用水。
make a surprising difference帶來意想不到的改變
But there's one thing you may not have thought of that can make a surprising difference, something you can start doing today - stop wasting food.但有一件事你可能想不到，它卻能帶來意想不到的改變，那就是你今天就可以開始做的事情--停止浪費食物。
help fight climate change幫助應對氣候變化
When I first heard that we could help fight climate change by reducing food waste, I was shocked.當我第一次聽說我們可以通過減少食物浪費來幫助應對氣候變化時，我很震驚。
goes into landfills被扔進了垃圾填埋場
Right now, we waste 40% of the food that's produced in the United States, and a lot of that food actually goes into landfills.現在，我們浪費了40%在美國生產的食物，很多食物都被扔進了垃圾填埋場。
betossed into a landfill被扔進垃圾填埋場
decompose分解
releases methane gas into the atmosphere釋放出甲烷氣體到大氣中
be more potent than carbon dioxide比二氧化碳更強的溫室氣體
And a lot of this food is in big plastic bags, where it's tossed into a landfill, and as it decomposes, it releases methane gas into the atmosphere - a greenhouse gas that's more potent than carbon dioxide.很多食物都裝在大塑膠袋裡，然後被扔進垃圾填埋場，當它分解時，會釋放出甲烷氣體到大氣中，這是一種比二氧化碳更強的溫室氣體。
greenhouse gas emissions溫室氣體排放
Ten percent of all greenhouse gas emissions are linked to food waste.有10%的溫室氣體排放與食物浪費有關。
have a face-palm sort of moment把手捂住自己的臉表示驚訝
It's absolutely surprising to people. I think people have a face-palm sort of moment.這絕對讓人驚訝。人們聽到這個消息時，可能把手捂住自己的臉表示驚訝。
mitigate/mtɡet/climate change 減緩氣候變化
We don't necessarily think of food waste as something that we can do to help mitigate climate change and protect the planet.我們認為阻止食物浪費並不是我們為了幫助減緩氣候變化和保護地球所要刻意去做的事情。
something that we can very easily curb舉手之勞的事情
This is something that we can very easily curb. It's very easy for us to stop wasting the food that we produce.這是我們舉手之勞的事情，我們可以很輕易地停止浪費我們的食物。
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