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- n．树抱子：对环保主义者的非正式称呼，通常用于形容那些关心自然环境和生态保护的人。
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Detractors like to trivialize environmentalists as "tree huggers," but the bottom line is that pollution makes us sick, right? 诽谤者们喜欢把环境主义者轻描淡写的说成“树木拥抱者”，但是污染真的会让我们生病，不是吗？ - 2
LL: Yeah, and the price of lumber in the northwest went up, and people blamed the tree huggers for lost jobs in the lumber industry. 因为砍的树少了，价格就上升了，伐木业的就业机会也少了；他们都怪环保人士呀！在这些人眼里，tree huggers显然不是赞美的称呼了。 - 3
"I'm NOT a tree-hugger," insists Susan Luebbe, a lifelong cattle rancher, "but if I have to buddy up with tree-huggers to stop this, then so be it." “我不是环保主义者，”苏珊?吕伯坚持说，她在牧场养了一辈子的牛，“可是如果非得要我和他们站在一起不可的话，那么我就当一回吧。”
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