美国一家公司向食品银行捐赠逾1.8万公斤鲑鱼
📖 逐句对照翻译
A New York food bank was offered a large donation of fresh fish last month — but the gift came with a complication.
上个月，纽约一家食品银行收到了一大笔新鲜鱼的捐赠——但这份礼物却附带了一个难题。
LocalCoho, a New York salmon farm that was closing, wanted to give 18,100 kilograms of coho salmon to the Food Bank of Central New York.
纽约的一家鲑鱼养殖场LocalCoho即将关闭，该养殖场希望将18100公斤的银鲑捐赠给纽约州中部食品银行。
The high-quality protein could feed thousands of families.
这种高质量蛋白质可以养活数千个家庭。
However, the gift fish were still alive and swimming in the farm’s large tanks.
然而，作为礼物的鱼仍然活着，在农场的大水箱里游来游去。
The organization needed to find a way to remove about 13,000 salmon from the tanks and, later, process them into food.
该组织需要找到一种方法，从水箱中取出大约13,000条鲑鱼，随后将其加工成食品。
And the food aid group needed to do all this quickly, before the business closed permanently at the end of January.
而食品援助组织需要在1月底该企业永久关闭之前迅速完成这一切。
Thanks to many volunteers, the group was able to empty the tanks in time, place the fish in cold storage and transport them to a processer.
多亏了许多志愿者，该组织得以及时清空水箱，将鱼放入冷藏库，并运送到加工厂。
Brian McManus is the food bank’s chief operations officer.
布莱恩·麦克马纳斯是食品银行的首席运营官。
He said that the short amount of time to complete the operation made activities difficult.
他说完成操作的时间太短，使得活动难以进行。
But, he said, “I knew that we had the will. I knew we had the expertise.”
但是，他说：“我知道我们有决心。我知道我们有专业知识。”
Food waste has been a big problem around the world for years.
多年来，食物浪费一直是全球面临的一大问题。
More than one-third of the food produced in the United States is never eaten and much of it ends up in landfills.
美国生产的食物中，超过三分之一从未被食用，其中许多最终被填埋。
Christina Hudson Kohler was among the volunteers who got into the water to collect the fish and put them into the cold storage containers.
克里斯蒂娜·哈德森·科勒是志愿者之一，他们下水收集鱼并将其放入冷藏容器中。
“It’s a little bit different,” Kohler said during a break.
“有点不一样，”科勒在休息时说道。
“In the past, my volunteer work with the food bank has been sorting carrots or peppers….”
“过去，我在食品银行的志愿工作一直是分拣胡萝卜或辣椒……”
LocalCoho was a new company that had been developing a sustainable salmon farming system.
LocalCoho是一家新公司，一直在开发可持续的三文鱼养殖系统。
The system employed recirculated water.
该系统采用了循环水。
The company had been supplying coho salmon to buyers, including restaurants, with the goal of building farms across the country.
该公司一直向包括餐馆在内的买家供应银鲑，目标是在全国范围内建立养殖场。
But company officials said they could not raise enough money from investors to grow and become profitable.
但公司高管表示，他们无法从投资者那里筹集到足够的资金来实现增长并盈利。
So, they decided to close the business.
于是，他们决定关闭这家企业。
Adam Kramarsyck was the salmon farm’s manager.
亚当·克拉马西克是鲑鱼养殖场的经理。
He said the company did not want the fish to go to waste so it sought a way to donate them.
他说，公司不想让这些鱼被浪费掉，因此寻求将它们捐赠出去的途径。
Kramarsyck said of the effort, “It’s ‘lemonade out of lemons.’” The expression means to create good from a bad situation.
克拉马西克在谈到这一努力时说：“这是‘把柠檬变成柠檬水’。”这个表达的意思是从糟糕的情况中创造出好的结果。
The donation is expected to provide more than 26,000 servings of hard-to-source protein for the hungry.
预计这笔捐款将为饥饿人群提供超过2.6万份难以获取的蛋白质食品。
“Protein, animal protein is very, very desirable.
蛋白质，动物蛋白非常非常理想。
We know that people need it for nourishment and it’s difficult to get.
我们知道人们需要它来滋养身体，而且它很难获得。
And so this is going to make a very large impact," said McManus, the food bank chief.
麦克马纳斯，这位食品银行的负责人表示：“因此，这将产生非常重大的影响。”
“I don’t anticipate this being here very long,'' he added. "We’ve had salmon before, but not like this.”
他补充道：“我觉得这不会持续太久。我们以前也吃过三文鱼，但从未像这样。”
I'm John Russell.
我是约翰·拉塞尔。
Michael Hill reported on this story for the Associated Press.
迈克尔·希尔为美联社报道了这一事件。
John Russell adapted it for VOA Learning English.
约翰·拉塞尔为VOA英语学习频道改编了它。
