来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：环境政治与法律第1集第1集》

How does it get into your environment?

它如何进入你的环境中
And what are the likely health effects?

可能的健康效果是什么
And the word likely is very important, because it implies

可能这个单词很重要因为它暗示了
that we need to be thinking probabilistically.

我们需要概率性地思考
What's the probability of damage occurring down the road,

今后带来损害的可能性有多少
whether or not it's ecological or human health related?

是否生态或是和人的健康相关
So we'll be thinking about the different forms of law

因此我们会思考不同形式的法律
that have evolved to try to deal with this kind of a problem.

这些法律逐渐演变尝试解决这类问题
Some set risk-only standards,

一些设置了仅仅风险的标准
some are risk-benefit balancing,

一些是风险-收益平衡
some are cost-benefit balancing

一些是花费-收益平衡
and more utilitarian in their structure.

以及在他们的结构中更多的功利性