【翻译原文】
随着环境保护意识的传播，“低碳(low-carbon)”这个词变得非常流行。在许多领域都出现了这个词，如低碳产品，低碳消费，低碳旅游等。“低碳生活”是一种新型生活方式，旨在尽量减少生活中的二氧化碳(carbon dioxide emisson)排放。例如 ，一些上班族不再以开私家车通勤自豪，而是以骑车或乘坐公共交通工具而骄傲。此外，他们提倡水的循环利用，并尽可能节约能源。
【参考译文】
As the consciousness of environmental protectionspreads, the word "low- carbon" has been verypopular. It can be found in many aspects, such aslow-carbon products, low-carbon consumption, low-carbon travel and so on. "Low-carbon life" is a newpattern of lifestyle, aiming to lower the carbon dioxide emission in living as much aspossible. For example, some office commuters are not proud of driving private cars any morebut pride themselves on cycling or taking public transportation. In addition, they advocaterecycling water and saving energy as much as they can.
