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视频译文ScriptWithout a doubt, humans have dramaticallydramaticallyadv.极大地，巨大地The skill dramatically increases your reading speed.这种技巧极大地提高了你的阅读速度。The country will need to step up the pace dramatically to reach its target of economic development.该国需要大力加速以便实现其经济发展目标。alteredalterv.改变，修改In doing translation, one should not alter the meaning of the original to suit one’s own taste.在翻译时，译者不能因为自己的喜好而改变了原文的意思。This method can alter the data structure of the results.这种方法可能会改变结果的数据结构。various facets of Planet Earth in a matter of centuries. As we mark Earth Day, it’s worthwhile to reflect on five ways we have changed our planet in the last 100 years.Number 5: The world’s population in the year 1913 was about 1.8 billion. In just about a hundred years, the population has balloonedballoonv.（数量上）猛增The number of local stores and small restaurants ballooned as more migrant workers flooded into the town.随着越来越多的农民工涌入城镇，小商店和小餐馆的数量猛增。Housing prices ballooned in the past few years.过去几年放假飞涨。to over seven billion. The world’s largest cities have seen huge population spikesspiken.激增There will be a spike in the population growth in the following 5 years.未来5年人口将迅猛增长。We have just gone through an oil price spike, which peaked at $150 a barrel.我们刚刚经历了油价疯涨，最高达到了150美元一桶。. Case in point, New York City’s current population is estimated to be 8.2 million. In 1913 it was approximately 5 million and a hundred years prior in 1813, just 70,000.Number 4: Can you live without your phone, Internet accessaccessn.进入，使用权, or TV? Not one of them was available to most people in 1913. It’s a different world now. A recent report noted that 6 billion people have access to cell phones today; that’s 1.5 billion more than the number of people who have access to clean toilets. While technology has numerousnumerousadj.许多的，很多的advantages, it also has a dark side. The US alone produces 50 million tons of E-waste every year and the majority of it is not disposeddisposev.处理，处置，安排of properly.Number 3: In 1913, Henry Ford created