二、英翻中【30 分】As much as the greening of sports was a mirage to many skeptics, it is no longer a pie in thesky now — it’s moving forward dramatically. Stadiums have installed wind and solar operations,improved lighting efficiency, ramped up recycling efforts and diverted increasing amounts oforganic waste from the landfill through composting efforts. The payback is not just good publicrelations but, increasingly, real bottom-line savings. The story of the Seattle Mariners explains howthis can work. First, he Seattle Mariners baseball team saw first-hand the financial benefits ofworking for energy efficiency when it reduced natural gas use 60% and electricity use by 30% from2006 to 2009 at Safeco Field. The Mariners now have one of the most comprehensiveenvironmental programs in sports. The change was questioned by a lot of naysayers, but thenumbers eventually convinced them. Now the Mariners’ stadium is the exemplary model of greenpractice.