The easy thing for the people who live on the banks of the River Dart in Devon might have been to grumble and groan about the sewage spills that blight their beloved waterway.(对于住在德文郡达特河两岸的人来说，面对破坏他们心爱河道的污水泄漏，最容易的做法或许就是抱怨和哀叹。)
对于住在德文郡达特河两岸的人来说，面对破坏他们心爱河道的污水泄漏，最容易的做法或许就是抱怨和哀叹。
Instead, citizen environmentalists in the area have created a unique online platform that flags up spills in real time, highlights spots that are repeatedly polluted, and sets out where improvement work is planned – and where it isn’t.(相反，该地区的公民环保人士创建了一个独特的在线平台，实时标记污水泄漏，突出反复受污染的地点，并说明哪些地方有计划进行改善工程——哪些地方没有。)
相反，该地区的公民环保人士创建了一个独特的在线平台，实时标记污水泄漏，突出反复受污染的地点，并说明哪些地方有计划进行改善工程——哪些地方没有。
Friends of the Dart(达特之友，环保组织) (FOD), an independent, not-for-profit organisation, says its River Hub is the first platform to pull together(汇集，整合), overflow(溢流，溢出) by overflow, such a sweep of granular(细致的，颗粒状的) detail about how one British river is being polluted.
独立非营利组织“达特之友”（FOD）表示，其“河流枢纽”是首个将一条英国河流受污染情况如此全面、细致地逐一汇总的平台，且细化到每一次溢流。