Andy Corbley

景一編譯

In a country With both housing shortages l and world-leadingcoffee production，a small company has， quite brilliantly， found away to use one in order to fix the other.

在一個既有住房短缺問題又有世界領(lǐng)先的咖啡產(chǎn)量的國家，一家小型公司非常出色地找到了一種方法，利用其中一個情況來處理另一個。

Coffee husks 2.a material surrounding the prized beans. arebeing turned into light building materials that can make the panels 3of a house for as little as $4，500.

咖啡殼是一種包裹著珍貴咖啡豆的材料，它正在轉(zhuǎn)變成輕型的建筑材料，只需4500美元就可以做出一棟房子的板材。

The company. which tried 10 develop a material from rice fiber，sawdust 4. and even recyCled plastic， settled on coffee husk for itsavailability and insece/water proofing 5 at last. Another benefit？Using coffee husks would stop them ending up in landfills.

這家公司曾試圖從米纖維、鋸末，甚至回收塑料中開發(fā)出一種材料，但最終因其可用性和防蟲/防水性而選擇了咖啡殼。另一個好處呢？利用咖啡殼可以避免它們最終進(jìn)入垃圾填埋場。

“We saw that there was a huge necessity for a lightweightconstruction 6 system for housing and classrooms in undevelopedplaces where traditional construction systems cannot go-like bricks.cement， and concrete.”said CEO Alejandro Franco.

首席執(zhí)行官亞雷漢德羅·佛朗哥表示：“我們看到，在無法使用像磚塊、水泥和混凝土那樣的傳統(tǒng)建筑體系的不發(fā)達(dá)地區(qū)，住房和教室的輕質(zhì)建筑體系是非常必要的?！?/p>

The panels have to be able to be loaded and transported on small boats.helicopters， or even on the back of a donkey， and for the most part they can.

這些板材必須能夠在小船、直升機(jī)，甚至是驢背上裝載和運輸，而在大多數(shù)情況下它們都可以。

Each panel has a lightweight steel frames 7 that， like LEGO. can click togetherwith minimal tool use.

每個板材都有輕巧的鋼框架，就像樂高一樣，可以用最少的工具安裝在一起。

When a hurricane hit the Colombian island of Providence last November.destroying more than a thousand homes，the company donated two complete housesthat the army received and fitted，which was a real b00n 8 to a community.

去年11月，當(dāng)一場颶風(fēng)襲擊了哥倫比亞的普羅維登斯島，摧毀了一千多所房屋時，該公司捐贈了兩棟由軍隊接收和組裝的完整房屋，這對一個社區(qū)來說是真正的福利。

“The system worked perfectly considering that there was no energy supply， theairport damaged， no food. etc.-all the problems that you can imagine. We think ourhouses are an excellent solution 9 for the housing crisis l0 there."

“在出現(xiàn)沒有能源供應(yīng)，機(jī)場受損，沒有食物等所有你能想象到的問題的情況下，這個系統(tǒng)發(fā)揮得非常完美。我們認(rèn)為，我們的房子是解決那里住房危機(jī)的絕佳方案?！?/p>

（英語原文選自：goodnewsnetwork.org）

[Notes]

1.shortage[????t?d?] n.缺乏

2.husk [h?sk]n.皮;外殼

3.panel [?p?nl] n，嵌板

4.sawdust [?s???d?st] n，鋸屑

5.proofing['pru?f??]力.防護(hù)

6.construction [k?n?str?k??n] n.建設(shè);建筑物I

7.frame [fre?m] n.框架

8.boon [bu?n] n。恩惠;福利

9.solution [s??lu???n] n，解決方案

10. crisis [?kra?s?s] n.危機(jī)

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