lawn中等

Often appearing as trodden dirt tracks through otherwise neat green spaces, these routes of collective disobedience cut corners, bisect lawns and cross hills, representing the natural capability of people (and animals) to go from point A to point B most effectively.

这些集体“违规”的路线常常表现为穿过原本整洁的绿地、被踩出来的土路，它们抄近道、横穿草坪、翻越山丘，体现了人（和动物）以最高效的方式从A点到达B点的天然能力。

Ohio State University allowed its students to navigate the Oval, a lawn in the centre of campus, freely, then proceeded to pave the desire paths, creating a web of effective routes students had established.

俄亥俄州立大学允许学生在校园中心的椭圆草坪上自由穿行，随后将这些欲望小径铺设成路，形成了一张由学生开辟的高效路线网。

In the quest for the perfect lawn, homeowners across the country are taking a shortcut — and it is the environment that is paying the price.

为了追求完美的草坪，全国各地的房主都在走捷径——而为此付出代价的是环境。

It is trying to encourage people to sign two petitions, one calling for a ban on the sale of plastic grass and another calling for an “ecological damage” tax on such lawns.

它正在努力鼓励人们签署两份请愿书，一份呼吁禁止销售塑料草坪，另一份呼吁对这类草坪征收“生态破坏”税。

However, supporters of fake grass point out that there is also an environmental impact with natural lawns, which need mowing and therefore usually consume electricity or petrol.

然而，假草坪的支持者指出，天然草坪同样会对环境造成影响，因为它们需要修剪，因此通常要消耗电力或汽油。

In response to another petition last year about banning fake lawns, which gathered 30,000 signatures, the government responded that it has “no plans to ban the use of artificial grass.”

去年另一份要求禁止假草坪的请愿书征集到了3万个签名，对此政府回应称，它“没有禁止使用人造草坪的计划”。