关于保护动物的英语作文题目(最新20篇)

At that time, I was in first grade, also do not understand love small animals.

That day, my mother bought me two little ducks. I am very happy, put the two little ducks in the box, hearing the cry of them, my mood is very good.

The next day, I want to let my classmates to my house to see my duck, I call the classmate, let him come. He looked at the duck, also feel very funny. We put a small duck on the ground, it took a few steps forward and then fell down, it caught up, and fell down, and we laughed. We play enough, threw the little duck into the box, to play with toys.

In the afternoon, my father and I went to see the little duck, saw a duck belly up, wings and feet in the shaking, its called the voice is very big, like crying. Dad hand a little duck, duck down again. I suddenly remembered I throw little duck into the box, ah! I am a murderer! I cried. Little duck finally died, I was sad.

From then on, I began to take care of small animals.

那时，我才上一年级，还不懂爱护小动物。

那天，我妈妈给我买了两只小鸭子。我很高兴，把两只小鸭子放在箱子里，听着它们的叫声，我的心情非常的好。

第二天，我想让同学到我家看看我的鸭子，我给同学打电话，让他来。他看了鸭子，也觉得很好玩。我们把一只小鸭子放在地上，它向前走了几步就摔倒了，它抓了起来，又摔倒了，我们哈哈大笑。我们玩够了，就把小鸭子扔进了箱子里，去玩玩具了。

下午，我和爸爸去看小鸭子，看见一只鸭子肚子朝上，翅膀和脚在抖动，它叫的声音很大，好像在哭一样。爸爸把小鸭子扶起来，小鸭子又倒了。我突然想起来我把小鸭子扔进箱子里的事，呀!我是杀人凶手呀!我哭了。小鸭子最后死了，我很伤心。

从那时起，我就开始爱护小动物了。

导语：水是生命之源，我们必须保护水资源，下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

We have only one earth. But now, the environment becomes worse and worse. As you know, theres no enough clean water for people. So many of them lose their lives because of water. In a lot of countries, people have to cut trees for living. So theres nothing to keep water from running away. Also we have polluted the land, the river and the air. So we have to face more and more floods and droughts . Its time that we must do something useful to protect our environment. We can plant trees and take good care of them. We can save the water and ask our parents to do so. We cant throw any litter onto the ground and we should collect them for recycling. If we take good care of our earth today, it will be more beautiful tomorrow. As you know,t heres no enough clean water for people. So many of them lose their lives because of water.

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我们只有一个地球。但是现在,环境变得越来越糟糕了。如你所知,没有足够的干净的水。很多人失去了他们的生命,因为水。在许多国家,人们生活必须砍树。所以没什么可防止水逃跑。我们也污染了土地,河流和空气。所以我们不得不面对越来越多的洪水和干旱。是时候,我们必须做些有用的事情来保护我们的环境。我们可以种树,好好照顾他们

我们可以节约水,问我们的父母这样做。我们不能扔垃圾在地上,我们应该收集回收。如果我们照顾好我们的地球的今天,这将是更美好的明天。如你所知,这里没有足够的干净的水。很多人失去了他们的生命,因为水。

“重庆市大巴山动物园的珍惜濒危动物╠五只大熊猫患上了离奇绝症需送国外抢救治疗，请同学们伸出援助之手，帮助那正要踏进死神殿堂的动物们吧！”第三节课间休息时，广播里传出动员大家出动的号召。

听到广播号召，同学们三三两两在教室议论起来，这时，只见班长杜鑫走上讲台，大声对我们说：“同学们，保护珍惜动物是我们共同的责任，大家都把平时的零用钱捐献出来，为抢救大熊猫做一点贡献吧！”大家听了，齐声拥护。班长到座位上拿出笔记本，就开始纪录同学们捐款了。同学们一齐围了上来，手里拽着一元、二元、五元的钞票，争先恐后地递给班长。班长的周围被围得水泄不通，不停地收钱，记载，一会大颗的汗珠开始从太阳穴顺流而下，汗珠最后降落在等记的课桌上。

下午第一节课的上课铃响了，老师来到课堂看到了同学捐款的场面，静静地观看着，脸上露出了欣慰的笑意。捐款登记完了，老师对我们说：“一会儿，学校将要举行捐款仪式，我们到操场上集合，请大家遵守秩序。”

全校同学们都来到操场上，主席台中间矗立着一个捐款箱，校长简单介绍后开始进行捐款仪式。校长，老师们依次走到捐款箱，投进了捐款，各班的班干部也带着全体同学的心愿走上捐款席，用一张写着多少钱，捐款慢慢地投了进去，同学们默默地注视着，脸上充满了自豪。

“一年级一班捐款125元……五年级六班捐款145元……总收到捐款4千多元，感谢同学们的爱心！”校长宣读完毕，操场上响起热烈的掌声。

这次活动，让我感到，我们要充满爱心，因为只有爱能创造奇迹！

Animals are the best friends of man who can all care for them? I am a favorite little animal, small animals are cute and naughty, like a naughty child.

I like the puppy, the puppy is very cute. I used to have a name: snow and snow to listen to the name to know is a lovely little dog, its hair like snow as white, with a pair of round black eyes, two ears in the head. Cute, but snow is also very naughty, then Ill tell you its naughty it!

One afternoon I came home from school, snow and snow as usual to pick me up, I and it walked on the stairs, to the stairs, it saw my hand bag, all of a sudden bite in the past, I chased it, while chasing Cried: "Snow snow to my bag back, hurry or else I want to teach you." Snow seems to understand, so obediently ran back, hand over the bag. Rub me a bit like me in the request of my understanding, I touched it, and it returned home.

Snow is very cute and very naughty. But I and it is a good friend, I like it snow snow.

Taking care of our school and

Taking care of our school and protecting our school environment! A clean and pleasant environment is very important, because it can make us healthy and happy.

It’s our duty to protect our school environment. We should clean the school every day. And we shouldn’t drop trash here and there. We should pick it up when we see trash on the ground.

We shouldn’t draw on the wall. If we all like our school the same as we like our homes, our school will be more beautiful. We will enjoy our study better. Let’s protect our school environment from now on, shall we?

Dear humans, I have to write to you because my friends are dying.The reasons are as follow.First,you damage the forests and take up too much land where we live.Second,you humans even kill the endangered animals for food,many of us have been killed over the past years.But as you all know,animals and humans are good friends.We live in Earth,relying on each other.Without animals,humans wont live long.So,humans should protect animals,that means protecting yourselves. Best wishes Yours Panda

Recently, the news reported that one special kind of rhino from Africa just

passed away, which meant the disappearance of this lovely creature. What a great

pity. The tragedy is caused by the damaged environment, while human being must

be blamed for it, because we have done so many bad things to pollute the

environment and make the nature lose its balance. In order to make up our faults

and save our offspring, it is in need of protecting the environment. As the

ordinary people, we can do the small things, such as do not throw away the

rubbish and join some activities to bring the world green, like planting trees.

Every small act can make a difference. Some day, when we live with the

environment friendly, what we do is worth.

My favorite little animal is a kitten, our family has raised a kitten, it is sent by neighbors. Because now the kitten is dead, so I will often think of it.

The cat looks very beautiful, he has a white hair, claws under the pad can make him walk without a little bit of sound. The most unique is his eyes: one eye is blue, the other is green. Blue eyes like sapphire, green eyes like emerald.

Kitten is very greedy, and sometimes a pound of heavy fish soon "destroy" the. Once, my mother made a bowl of fish soup. Kitten jumped on the table, relish eating up. When I was eating, it was found by me, so I taught him a bitter meal. The kitten hung his head, as if to say: "I no longer dare." I immediately laughed.

Now that kitten is dead, since then, every time I see the kitten, and it should play some. Kitty, where did you go?

Protecting the Environment

In the last several decades, our earth has been extremely polluted, such as air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution and so on. In recent years, the extreme weather becomes more and more frequent. Winter gets colder and summer becomes hotter and it rains more frequently. All of these warn us that protecting the environment is a serious and emergent event. As our general people, we should build proper lifestyle. We should pay attention to water and light saving. When we go out, we should firstly choose the public transportation. The most important is that we must realize that we can do a lot of things to protect our environment. Its our duty to make our home better. Let’s change from ourselves.

在过去的几十年里，我们的地球已经极度污染，比如大气污染，水污染以及噪音污染等等。近几年，极地气候越来越频繁。冬天越来越暖，夏天越来越热，还经常下雨。所有的这些都警示我们保护环境是一件严肃紧迫的事。作为普通老百姓，我们应该形成合适的生活方式。我们应该注意节约水电。出门的时候我们应该首选公共交通。最重要的是我们必须意识到我们可以做很多事情来保护我们的环境。使我们的家园变得更美好是我们的责任。让我们从自己开始改变。

[初中英语作文及翻译：保护环境

Many animals are in danger of dying out. As is clearly shown in the bar chart, the kinds of wild animals have decreased sharply in the past decades. With 30,000 wild animals reduced on average each year, there were only 1.5 million left till 2010.

There are several reasons accounting for this problem. Apart from the polluted environment and natural disasters, illegal killing is an important reason. Human beings are making attempts to hunt wild animals for fashion and a big profit, which can be seen vividly from the right picture. This has resulted in a sharp decrease in the number of animals.

In my opinion, it is high time for us to take quick action to protect them. A national public campaign should be launched to give animals a good living environment. In addition, the government should pass some firm laws to forbid abuse killing. Only in this way can we live in harmony with wild animals.

许多动物都面临灭绝的危险。显然这个柱状图所示,野生动物的种类急剧下降在过去的几十年。每年平均30000野生动物减少,只剩下150万到2010。

占这个问题有几个原因。除了环境污染和自然灾害,非法捕杀是一个重要的原因。人类正在试图猎杀野生动物对于时尚和一个很大的利润,从右边可以看到生动的画面。这导致了动物的数量急剧减少。

在我看来,我们是时候采取快速行动保护他们。国家公共活动应该推出给动物一个良好的生活环境。此外,政府应该通过一些公司法律禁止虐待杀害。只有用这种方法我们才能与野生动物和谐相处。

We live in nature, nature is very important to us. If we dont take care of it, the natural disaster will befall mankind.

But, because of a shortage of people environmental protection consciousness, there are some people throwing garbage everywhere, some pet, or at the side of the road. There are some busy people to go outside to eat fast food, leftovers lost carelessly. There are some people throwing paper everywhere, those paper lying on the road, just like a damage to the environment of the devil. There are some factories at the thick black smoke, the sky got dark. Some factories discharge wastewater flow into rivers, leading to the river black and stink, lots and lots of fish died. Some people are disorderly cut down trees, land became bare. Without trees, the air quality is affected, many living things disappear from lack of oxygen. There are some people in the river after eating, was thrown into the river, originally the clear river water becomes dirty and smelly ditch, passing all over your nose.

For the sake of our environment, I want to be with those people say: "please dont damage the environment, or natural disaster will befall mankind. If again so continue to destroy, the whole earth will disappear. The end of the world will always be coming.

The earth is my home, to protect the environment depends on everybody. Let us act together to protect our lovely earth!

我们生活在大自然里，大自然对我们非常重要。如果我们不爱护它，自然灾害就会降临到人类。

可是，由于人们环保意识不足，有一些人就随地扔垃圾，一些宠物就在路边随地大小便。有一些工作繁忙的人就到外面吃快餐，剩饭剩菜随手乱丢。有一些人随地扔纸团，那些躺在公路上的纸团，就像一个个破坏环境的魔鬼。还有一些工厂冒着浓浓的黑烟，把天空弄得黑乎乎的。有些工厂里排放出来的污水流进江河里，导致河水变黑、变臭，许许多多的鱼死亡。有些人就乱砍树木，土地变得裸露了。没有了树木，空气质量受到影响，许多生物因为缺氧而消失。有一些人在河边吃完东西，就往河里扔，原本清澈的河水变成了又脏又臭的水沟，路过的人都捂鼻而过。

为了我们的环境，我要跟那些人说：“请你们不要再破坏环境了，否则自然灾害就会降临到人类。如果再这样继续破坏的话，整个地球就会消失。世界末日始终会到来。

地球是我家，保护环境靠大家。让我们一起行动起来，保护我们这个美丽可爱的地球吧!

Panda is one of the scarcest animals. People in the world like it very much. there used to be many pandas in China long ago. As the balance of nature was destroyed and the weather was getting warmer and warmer, pandas became less. But at present, the number of pandas is increasing year by year. there are now so many pandas that some are being sent to other countries so that people there can enjoy them.

Nowadays, the biggest nature park for panda in China is in Sichuan. there is a research centre for nature and wild life there. Scientists hope that one day they will have enough pandas to be set free and let them live in the wild again.

It was a fine day today and the sun was bright. I visited Beijing Zoo with my classmate, He Song. The animals were so interesting that all the people loved them. When a bear asked for some food by waving its ann, a visitor threw something to it. At once I went up to him and said without thinking,Dont do that. Its bad for it. If you really love them, take good care of them. His face turned red and answered he wouldnt do that again.

今天是个风和日丽的好天，我和同学贺松去了北京动物园。动物们是那么可爱，大家都非常喜欢它们。一只熊挥动着胳膊向人们要吃的，一个游客就投进去了什么东西。我想都没想就走过去说：“不要那样做。你的做法对它们没好处。如果真的喜欢它们，就应该爱护它们。”他的脸红了，并且回答说他不会再那么做了。

"Protecting the environment, purify our living space!" This sentence, has become a new era of the loudest slogan! We also want to environmental protection dedicate a force.

As people living standard gradually improve, more and more is also high to the requirement of articles for daily use. Some factories in order to their own interests, the discharge of waste water in the clear brook; The waste gas into the forest. Forest gradually wither, the stream pollution gradually, some animals and humans died for drink a lot of filthy water, it is harm to our living environment! Now, forest gradually reduce, each factory is gradually increased; Green is gradually reduce, gray is gradually increase. People only consider their own interests, completely regardless of the environment. Wake up! Hurry to take action to protect the environment!

Because of pollution, our blue sky no longer blue; White clouds because of pollution, we no longer; Because of pollution, the tree that we no longer live... Everything, all from a word, the pollution. The pollution, is the only interest, not for bad people!

Because of pollution, the earth mothers pale and gaunt; Because of pollution, the earth mothers body, has been scarred; Because of pollution, the earth mother has no original color; Because of pollution, the earth mother has... Wake up! Those ignorant people, also we a piece of green Spaces! Act quickly! Take an active part in health activities, protect the environment! Even if its just picked up a plastic bag from the ground, it is also the love the earth mother to do...

Once again remind of our slogan "environmental protection, purify our living space" dont let the noise of the earth into the second moon...

“保护环境，净化我们的生活空间!”这句话，已经成为新时代最响亮的口号!我们也要为环保献出一份力量。

随着人们生活水平的逐渐提高，对生活用品的要求也越来越高。一些工厂为了自己的利益，把排出的废水倒进清澈的小溪里;把废气排进森林里。森林渐渐枯萎，小溪渐渐污浊，一些动物和人类因为喝不少不干不净的水而死去，这已经危害到了我们的生活环境!现在，一片片森林逐渐减少，一座座工厂在逐渐增加;绿色在逐渐减少，灰色在逐渐增加。人们只顾及自己的利益，完全不管坏境。醒醒吧!赶快行动起来保护环境吧!

因为污染，我们的蓝天不再蔚蓝;因为污染，我们的云朵不再洁白;因为污染，我们的大树不再茂盛……这一切的一切，都来源于一个词语——污染。这污染的元凶，就是那些只为利益，不为坏境的人们!

由于污染，地球妈妈的脸色变得苍白、憔悴;由于污染，地球妈妈的身上，已是伤痕累累;由于污染，地球妈妈已经没有原来的色彩;由于污染，地球妈妈已经……醒醒吧!那些无知的人们，还我们一片绿色的天地!快快行动起来吧!积极参与卫生活动，保护环境吧!哪怕只是从地上捡起一个塑料袋，也是爱地球妈妈的表现……

再一次想起我们的口号“保护环境，净化我们的生活空间”不要让地球变成第二个月球……

It seems we are living in the conflict between modern and traditional cultures every day.Hearing the blaring of horns the moment you step out of your house,seeing the so called "pop" the moment you open your eyes,you cant help thinking,"Will the traditional culture be gradually lost?"

Many people believe so.They may put right in front of you all the evidences they can dig out.They may argue that people are rushing to restaurants instead of cooking at home,listening to pop music but not traditional,wearing in a way people couldnt imagine ten years ago.Modern people like the air of freedom,not to be restrained by traditions.They offer this long list,only trying to confirm that this world is full of fashion,competition and temptation and the traditional culture is fading and will be lost at last.

Though we are now living in a world in which undeclared aggression,war,hypocrisy,chicanery,anarchy are part of our daily life.Though this is a skeptical age,and our faith has weakened,our confidence in some aspects of the traditional culture should and would never be lost.

Wouldnt you agree that our traditional culture is always credited with modesty,politeness and respectfulness,which have always been treasured for more than five thousand years?Even in this modern world,people still admire those with good manners,those who are polite to others or respectful to old people.

Wouldnt you agree that our Chinese traditional music is beautiful and artistic and our Chinese tea culture is always an appealing treasure to people around the world?

So there may just be some changes in our lifestyle or our attitudes towards life,but little change occurs to some fundamental aspects of our traditional culture that people still treasure in heart.

The traditional culture will never be lost,I believe.

[保护传统艺术英语作文

今天我看了《蚂蚁和鸽子》这篇童话。故事讲述的是一只蚂蚁不小心落入河塘里，鸽子看见了，就立刻救了它，蚂蚁很感激鸽子。有一天，一个猎人发现了鸽子就举枪瞄准了它，这一幕恰好被蚂蚁看见了，它奋不顾身地咬着猎人的腿，让鸽子跑掉了。

看了这篇故事让我曾经看到过有一篇关于外国人报恩的故事，故事讲述了很久以前有一位很富的巴格达人，穷人偷了富人的金算盘，拿去换了很多钱，然后用这笔钱做起了生意，赚了一笔钱。可穷人心里一直很歉疚，总觉得过意不去，于是他就跋山涉水找到了富人家里，可是世事难料，富人家如今变成了一片废墟，穷人二话不说，给了富人一笔钱，而且带上他一起去做生意。

这两则故事深深地感动了我，连小小的动物还有外国人都有这份之恩图报的品格，可是有的人却没有这份珍贵的品格。有的人遇到危险，别人救了他，他不但不感谢别人、不报答他，反而加害于救他的人。

《蚂蚁和鸽子》这篇童话中也提到了对动物的心狠手辣的猎人。以前，人们没有食物，是因为那时人们还不会种植物，常常把动物残忍地杀了吃，后来，人们慢慢地学会了种植各种各样的食物，纠正了以前所犯的错误，而且还禁止贩卖

We should all know that everybody is responsible for protecting the environment!

We live the earth is very fragile, the earths natural resources is limited, if we protect the environment and the earth from now on, we live the earth will become more beautiful!

Protecting environment starts from me from the us side of small start!

To protect the environment is to protect the earth or indirectly protect us humans, if the environment is destroyed, then to the survival of our homes is likely to be swallowed up by the desert!

I am here is appealing to people around the world to protect the environment is everyone duty! If we are in such environment, our home is about to be collapsed. Then we will have no place, everybody is responsible for protecting the environment, start small make up,

If we do not litter, spit, etc.

Everybody is responsible for protecting the environment!

我们大家应该都知道保护环境人人有责!

我们生活的地球是很脆弱的，地球上的自然资源也是有限的，如果我们从现在开始保护环境和地球的话，我们生活的地球一定会变的更美好!

保护环境从我做起从我们大家身边的小事做起吧!

保护环境就是保护地球还是间接的保护我们人类自己，如果环境被破坏的话，那么我们赖以生存的家园就很有可能被沙漠吞噬 !

我在这里向全世界的人们呼吁 保护环境人人有责 ! 如果我们还在这样的破坏环境的话，我们的家园即将遭到崩溃 。 那时我们便没有去处了， 保护环境人人有责 ， 从小事开始作起吧，

如我们不乱扔垃圾， 随地吐痰等。

保护环境人人有责!

我们每个人都有一个、两个、三个，甚至四五个理想。记得托尔斯泰曾经说过：理想是指路明灯。没有理想就没有坚定的方向；没有方向就没有生活。

为什么我要当动物保护者呢？第一：我对动物特别有同情心，比如一些流浪狗、流浪猫之类的流浪动物，我会趁爸爸妈妈离开的时候给它们一些食物吃，一开始它们会半信半疑，（因为它们常常被一些卖狗肉，参猫肉的，引诱，然后就……）于是我就走的远远的，在一个隐蔽的地方看着它们吃完了，我才离开。第二：我对动物特别了解，我几乎每天都看快乐宠物，里面会有些关于宠物资料。比如我家的小泰迪——阿酷，我可以看阿酷的身体动作来判断它想要干什么。

如果再过上20年，30年，我真的当上动物保护者，我一定会禁止人们掠杀猫、狗之类的流浪动物，探索出尼斯湖水怪的真正面目，研究出治愈狂犬病的药物，还有最重要的事情就是要保护好动物，禁止虐杀动物，随便给动物喂食……要保护好环境，只有这样动物才能生存下来，如果没有动物我们也无法生存的，比如说牛，帮助人类耕田。

虽然我还没有当上动物保护者，但我也算半个动物保护者了，但是我还是要呼吁大家保护动物，从自己做起。

Remember last years summer vacation, my father and I went for a walk EHu edge, a way, Im kind of shouted thirsty, so my father on the side of the road store bought me a Popsicle. I ate and go, soon finished eating, carelessly threw the ice sticks into EHu. Dad saw, reminded me immediately; "Coco, cant litter oh! If everyone like you to throw garbage in the lake, the beautiful EHu lake becomes waste." Im ashamed of say: "know, next time I must not litter." Dad smiled and stroked my head and said: "the earth is our home, we should protect it, cherish it, let the sky bluer, the water cleaner, the grass is greener." I naughty to say: "oh, that is, everybody has said, the city is my home, clean environment depends on everybody. I understand." From then on, I no longer throw garbage.

I want to take care of the environment is closely related to everyone, so lets start from everyone!

今天，我们读了很多关于保护环境的小短文。我想起曾经在我身边发生的事情。

记得是去年的暑假，我和爸爸一起去鹅湖边散步，走了一段路，我就一个劲的喊口渴，于是，爸爸就在路边的小店给我买了根冰棍。我边吃边走，一会儿就吃完了，随手把冰棍棒往鹅湖里一扔。爸爸看见了，马上提醒我说;“可可，不能乱扔垃圾噢!如果每个人都像你一样往湖里扔垃圾，这美丽的鹅湖不就变成了垃圾湖了。”我羞愧的说：“知道了，我下次一定不乱扔垃圾。”爸爸微笑着抚摸我的头说：“地球也是我们的家，我们应该保护它，爱护它，让天更蓝，水更清，草更绿。”我调皮的说：“噢，那就是大家一直说的，城市是我家，环境清洁靠大家。我明白了。”让从那以后，我再也不乱扔垃圾了。

我想爱护环境与每个人息息相关，所以要从每个人做起!

弗朗西斯为人类与动物建立正常文明的关系做出了榜样。后人为了纪念他，就把10月4日定为“世界动物日”，小编收集了保护动物的励志名言，欢迎阅读。

为了生存，人类却为了不必要的虚荣和罪行而残害动物。

—布鲁达克

我决心杜绝吃肉，一年后，我不但轻轻松松就能节制饮食，而且感觉很舒服。

—塞尼加(seneca)著名文学家

动物是我的朋友，我不会去吃我的朋友。

—萧伯纳 英国剧作家

我觉得，当心灵发展到了某个阶段的时候，我们将不再为了满足食饮而残杀动物。(甘地)

我深信吃荤不但没有必要，而且对身体康也有害;再说，吃荤是不道德的行为。—约翰.哈维.凯洛格医师

.‘我不吃有脸的动物’、‘我就是不吃任何有母亲的动物’。

—佛来得.罗杰

肉食不能提供人类最好的营养，也不是我们老粗先所吃的食物。人类所必需的营养当中，没有一样是只能在肉类食品中找到，却不能由蔬果当中摄取的。

—约翰.哈维.凯洛格医师

我认为肉食对于人类通常生活所可能遇到的任何场合来说都是没有必要的。

—甘地(mahatma gandhi)印度国父

我打从心底知道，吃那些被养来吃、没有机会长大的动物是病态的，因为你吃的是一些可怜虫、一群苦命的动物。

不要使你自己的胃成为动物的坟场。 —一位回教先知

人类谋生的方法进步之后，才知道吃植物。中国是文化很老的国家，所以中国人多是吃植物，至于野蛮人多是吃动物。 —孙中山 中国国父

我想到就觉得很震惊到底是什么样的欲望让人类开始吃死尸肉，又是什么样的动机造成人类非要用动物的肉来养肥自己不可。想想看，不久之前你还听到这些动物哀号、咆哮、踱步并看到它们注视著你。 —布鲁达克(plutarch)希腊哲学家

吃素的行为应该会赋予那些一心想要将天国带到地上的人很大的喜悦，因为吃素象征了人类对完美道德的渴望是很真切的。 —托尔斯泰(leo tolstoy)俄国文豪

人类已经有取之不尽、用之不竭的各种蔬 菜水果，之所以吃肉可不足因为有这个需要，而是虚荣心的作祟，加上吃腻了这些蔬果，于是开始吃一些不纯净又不方便的食物，买一些活生生被宰杀的动物来证明自己比那些野兽更残忍。 —布鲁达克(plutarch)希腊哲学家

一个国家伟不伟大、道德水准高不高，可以从它对待动物的方式评断出来。 —甘地(mahatma gandhi)印度国父

我常怀疑是什么样的感觉、想法和理由，让第一个人开始用鲜血污染了自己的嘴，容许自己的唇触碰到那些被谋杀的动物的肉，在餐桌上堆满了动物的尸体，还说那些刚刚还活蹦乱跳、有意识、有声音的动物是平日盘中飧。

—布鲁达克(plutarch)希腊哲学家

如果屠宰场有玻璃墙的话，大家就会开始吃素了。知道我们没有造成动物受苦，可以让自己好过些，也会让动物好过些。

—保罗.麦卡尼(英国披头四自唱团)及琳达.麦卡尼

对我而言，羔羊的生命和人类的生命一样地珍贵，我可不愿意为了人类的身体而取走羔羊的性命。我认为越是无助的动物，人类越应该保护它，使它不受人类的残暴侵害。 —甘地(mahatma gandhi)印度国父

我们不吃那些为了我们而被宰杀的动物。在经历了那么多世事之后，我们现在非常珍惜生命。

Excuse me waiter, there’s a shark in my soup

Some 200m years before dinosaurs made their appearance on earth and thus quite some time before Homo sapiens began celebrating nuptials at extravagant wedding banquets, sharks swam the oceans. Sharks are older than trees. They have survived at least four planetary mass extinctions.

在恐龙在地球上出现之前两亿年左右，也就是在现代人(Homo sapiens)开始举办奢华婚宴之前相当久远的时候，鲨鱼们就已经在海洋中游弋。鲨鱼比树还要古老。它们至少经历了四次地球物种灭绝，一直活到了今天。

The link between these ancient predators and contemporary wedding receptions is that, among Chinese people, it is a sign of generosity and prestige to serve guests shark-fin soup. Since there are more than 1.3bn Chinese people, and since they are getting more affluent by the day, that is of no little consequence to the shark population. Some 70m sharks are killed each year for their fins. Much of the time, the fins are sliced off with a blade at sea and the bloody shark torso thrown back in the water to die.

这种古老的食肉动物和当代婚宴之间的联系在于，在中国人眼中，请客人吃鱼翅羹是慷慨与体面的标志。由于中国有13亿多人口，并且中国人一天比一天富裕，吃鱼翅对鲨鱼数量可谓影响重大。为了获取鱼翅，人类每年要捕杀约7000万条鲨鱼。大多数时候，人们在海上用刀把鱼鳍割下来，然后便将血淋淋的鲨鱼躯干扔入海里，任由它们死去。

The California state legislature is debating a bill co-sponsored by Paul Fong, a Chinese-American Democrat, to ban the sale, consumption and trade of shark fin. Hawaii, Oregon and Washington state already impose similar bans. California accounts for 85 per cent of shark fin eaten in the US. The bill sailed through the lower house assembly, but is being held up in the state senate because of concerns it discriminates against Chinese Americans.

加利福尼亚州立法机构正在讨论由民主党人、美籍华人方文忠(Paul Fong)联合提议的一项旨在禁止贩卖、消费和交易鱼翅的议案。夏威夷州、俄勒冈州和华盛顿州已经实施了类似的禁令。加州的鱼翅食用量占到美国鱼翅总食用量的85%。州众议院会议已通过了此项议案，但因担心法案有歧视美籍华人的嫌疑，州参议院还未对其投票表决。

What people eat is, indeed, a sensitive topic and one that generates much hypocrisy. Different cultures have formed their own taboos about what is proper, and not proper, to eat. Muslims and Jews don’t eat pigs, Hindus don’t eat cows and most Americans don’t eat snake or whale. Jains, and vegetarians of all cultures, don’t eat any animals at all.

人们吃什么确实是一个敏感的话题，也会催生许多虚伪的作风。对于可以吃什么、不可以吃什么，不同的文化有着各自的禁忌。穆斯林和犹太教徒不吃猪肉，印度教徒不吃牛肉，而大多数美国人不吃蛇肉或鲸肉。耆那教徒(Jains)和各种文化中的素食主义者都不吃任何动物。

Westerners are particularly prone to turning up their nose at what other people eat. Their position is mostly illogical and sometimes offensive. They tend to mentally divide animals into those you eat (like pigs, sheep and chickens); those you cuddle or stroke (cats, dogs and horses); and those too ugly, unusual or intelligent to eat (say beetles, zebras and dolphins). Many profess to loathe barbarity – think clubbing seals – yet are happy to eat veal or to ignore what goes on in their friendly neighbourhood abattoir.

西方人尤其看不惯其它文化社会的人们所吃的东西。他们的出发点大多不合逻辑，有时可能还会触犯众怒。他们往往在心里把动物分为好几类：吃的(如猪、羊和鸡)、搂抱或抚摸的(猫、狗和马)以及太丑、太怪或太聪明而不能吃的(比如甲虫、斑马和海豚)。许多人都公开对残暴行为表示憎恶——例如用棍子猎杀海豹——但却爱吃小牛肉，或佯装对自己居住的友好社区的屠宰场里发生的一切毫不知晓。

Michael Moore, the American documentary film-maker, brilliantly – if possibly inadvertently – exposed this self-delusion in Roger & Me. In a scene that was meant to highlight the poverty of Flint, Michigan, a woman selling rabbits is shown asking customers if they want “pets or meat”. If the answer is “pet”, the cuddly bunny is handed over to a delighted child. If “meat”, the hapless creature is clubbed to death with a lead pipe and skinned on the spot.

美国纪录片电影制片人迈克尔?摩尔(Michael Moore)在《罗杰和我》(Roger & me)中绘声绘色地(也可能是不经意地)披露了这种自欺欺人的行径。在展现密歇根州弗林特(Flint)贫困状况的一个场景中，有个女人在卖兔子，她问顾客要买“宠物还是兔肉”。如果答案是“宠物”，她就把小兔子交给一个满心欢喜的孩子。如果答案是“兔肉”，她便当场用一根铅管把这个可怜的动物打死并把皮剥下来。

The richer societies get, the more finicky they tend to become. Many (including myself) waste half the animal they have had killed on their behalf, refusing to consume its organs, intestines, brain and so on. These parts are often eaten, and sometimes prized, in non-western societies, particularly in Asia. In their willingness to consume almost all the animal, both China and Japan score far better than most western countries.

社会越是富有，往往就会变得越挑剔。许多人(包括我在内)会浪费掉因为他们而被杀死的动物的一半，我们拒绝食用它们的器官、肠子和脑子等等部位。但在西方之外的社会、尤其是亚洲，人们通常是吃这些的，而且有时还会将其视若珍品。就吃下动物所有部位的意愿而言，中国和日本要远远排在大多数西方国家的前面。

Surely, then, one can’t object to eating shark fin? Yet one can and one should. The reasons are to do with conservation and our broader ecosystem. Some species of shark have been depleted by 70 per cent and a few, such as smooth hammerhead, bull sharks and tiger sharks, by 90 per cent or more. Sharks are the ocean’s top predators. Their absence causes havoc. Off the east coast of America, sharks used to eat bottom-feeding rays. With shark numbers massively depleted, the rays have had a field day devouring scallops, clams and oysters, rapidly reducing stocks.

这么说来，想必我们不能反对吃鱼翅了?不，我们可以反对，而且也应当反对。因为这关系到环境保护以及更广泛生态系统的保护。一些种类的鲨鱼数量已减少了70%，少数几个种类的数量减少了90%，例如平双髻鲨、牛鲨和虎鲨。鲨鱼是位于海洋食物链最顶端的捕食者。若没有它们，生态系统会发生混乱。在美国东海岸附近，鲨鱼通常以在水底觅食的魟鱼为食。由于鲨鱼数量急剧减少，魟鱼就会趁机吃掉很多扇贝、蛤蜊和牡蛎，使这些物种的数量迅速减少。

Once shark fins are dried and in jars, it is all but impossible to tell what kind of shark they came from or whether they were finned. At one store in the Sheung Wan district of Hong Kong, a city where half the world’s shark fin is traded, a salesman admits he has no idea whether the fins come from endangered species. His shop does not sell shark meat, and he says it could be true that the carcase is simply tossed into the sea. As well as the cruelty, there is also the incredible waste. The average shark stretches to about 10 bowls of soup.

鲨鱼的鳍一旦被晒干并放入罐里，便几乎无可判断它们来自哪种鲨鱼，或者是否是被割下来的。在鱼翅交易量占全球一半的香港，上环区一家商店的一位销售人员坦承，他不清楚店里的鱼翅是否来自濒危鲨鱼。他的店里不卖鲨鱼肉，并且他表示，鲨鱼的尸体被直接抛回海里可能是真事。岂止是残忍，这也是一种巨大的浪费。平均每条鲨鱼只能加工出大约10碗鱼翅汤。

Certainly, shark fin is traditional. As one writer points out, to ask people to stop eating it is the equivalent of suggesting Americans give up turkey for Thanksgiving. There is doubtless a case for banning other types of food, such as some types of caviar and some species of whale. But cultures are not immutable. Traditions change, especially when they are unsustainable.

不错，鱼翅是一种传统食物。正如一位作家所指出的那样，要求人们不吃鱼翅就好比让美国人过感恩节时不要吃火鸡。我们无疑有理由禁止食用其它食物，比如某类鱼子酱和某些种类的鲸。但文化也不是一成不变的。传统会发生变化，尤其是当它们难以为继的时候。

Fortunately, many of the most prominent campaigners against shark fin are Chinese, with Yao Ming, the recently retired basketball sensation, among the most passionate. In Hong Kong, where shark fin used to be de rigueur at Cantonese banquets, many young people refuse to eat it. Besides, sharks have less cachet now they are siphoned from the oceans on an industrial scale.

值得庆幸的是，在反对吃鱼翅的最著名活动人士之中，许多都是中国人，比如近期退役的篮球明星姚明，就是行动最积极的人士之一。在香港，鱼翅曾是粤宴上的必备菜肴，但如今许多青年人拒绝食用鱼翅。此外，在捕杀鲨鱼实现工业化规模的今天，鱼翅的身价已大不如前。

In Canada, more than a few ethnic Chinese couples have made a show of not serving shark fin at their wedding. Judy Lao recently told the Vancouver Province why she didn’t have it at her reception. “We don’t really care, our friends don’t care, and shark fin has no nutritional value anyway,” she said. “So why should we serve it?” Why indeed.

在加拿大，许多对华裔夫妇已做出表率，在婚宴上不供应鱼翅。Judy Lao最近向《温哥华省报》(Vancouver Province)解释了，为什么她的婚宴没有上鱼翅。“我们并不介意这些，我们的朋友也不介意，再说鱼翅根本也没有什么营养价值，”她表示。“所以，我们为什么要上鱼翅呢?”确实，这有什么必要呢?

[保护鲨鱼的英语作文