来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：环境政治与法律 第2集 第2集》

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  And what about local governments?
  那么地方政府呢
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  Which level of government has the best capacity to
  哪一级的政府最有能力去
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  deal with which kind of problem?
  解决哪一类的问题呢
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  No one sat down and thought comprehensively about this.
  没有人坐下来全面地思考过这个问题
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  And the result is really what I think of as
  结果正如我所想的
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  a really fragmented patchwork quilt that's quite frayed
  如同一床用碎布拼起来的破棉被一样
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  of various statutes that are pieced together,
  许多法令被拼接到一起
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  that have embedded within them different decision standards
  这些法令拥有不同的决断标准
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  as well as different levels of funding,
  以及不同水平的资金
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  and administered by a variety of different agencies.
  并且被各种不同的机构所管理
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  So when I talk about environmental law,
  因此 当我谈及环境法时
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  you probably know that the Environmental Protection Agency
  你们能会了解到环境保护署的