Interviewer: You began collecting used batteries in 1999. What was it that started you on this
田：那年我碰巧在一张报纸上读到这样一篇文章。文章说一粒纽扣电池能污染60万升水，相当于一个人一生的用水量。当时我很震惊，因为我自己就是个卖电池的，8年来已经卖出了几百万节的电池。如果这些电池用完后都被随便扔掉，那会造成 多大的污染，真是不敢想象。
Interviewer: So you believed what the newspaper said, and began to reclaim used batteries, right
田：对。我发现它们不是被随意扔到河里，就是被埋在地里。我感到废旧电池对环境的污染确实太大了，所以收集废旧电池对保护环境是很重要的一件事。从那以后我就开始收集废电池了。
Interviewer: Do people understand what you are doing
田：刚开始时很不理解。为了呼吁人们关心环保，我做了600个回收箱，全都是用我自己的钱。
Interviewer: I heard that you put an advertisement in a local newspaper, advocating environmental protection and the recycling of used batteries. That’s great.
田：可有些人笑话我，有些人觉得我傻，还有些人说我为了出名。
Interviewer: Is it difficult to deal with the used batteries
田：可不是吗!现在处理废旧电池还是个世界性的难题。不过，我的工作是先引起大伙对废旧电池的重视。
参考答案：
Tian: I happened to read a short article in a newspaper that year. The article said that just one button battery could contaminate F00,000 liters of water-the equivalent amount of what a man consumes in a lifetime. That was a big shock to me because I was a battery dealer, having sold millions of batteries for more than eight years. It’s hard to imagine what damage I could have done if all those batteries were casually thrown away.
记者：所以你相信了这些报道，然后开始收集废旧电池，是吗
Tian: That’s right. I found out that used batteries were directly thrown into rivers, or buried in the fields. I knew they were very harmful for environment and found it crucial to collect these used batteries for environmental protection. Since then I started this collecting work.
记者：人们理解你的做法吗
Tian: Not in the beginning. To call upon people to protect environment I made F00 collecting boxes, all at my own expense.
记者：听说你在当地一家报纸上登了一则启事，号召大家都来回收废旧电池，保护环境。真不简单。
Tian: Some people, however, laughed me off, some thought I was being silly and others accused me of fishing for fame and compliments.
记者：处理那些废电池麻烦吗
Tian: Yes, it remains a worldwide problem to deal with used batteries. But my work is to draw people’ s attention to the proper disposal of used batteries.