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Giorno d’oggi sono molti le città ed i communi impegnati a trovare modi per ridurre l’inquinamento e di migliore la qualità dell’aria nei centri urbani. (These days many cities and municipalities are committed to finding ways to reduce pollution and improve the air quality in urban centers.)
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The source of this dose di vocaboli italiani (dose of Italian words) is from a recent Italian news article on an initiative to lower emissions from public transportation that involves specially equipped city buses in the Italian city of Torino. (There is a link to the news story below. You could challenge yourself to read it and find all the vocaboli.)
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LISTEN & PRACTICE PRONUNCIATION
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- il mezzo = noun, means of transport, (mezzi pubblici = public transport)
- equipaggiati = adjective, equipped
- avvenuta = past participle of the verb avvenire; take place, happen, occur
- le emissioni = noun, emissions
- inquinanti = adjective, polluting
- il dispositivo = device, equipment
- la sosta = noun; stop, halt
- i vertici = apexes, the heads of an organization
- dotarsi, dotati = verb; to equip oneself, equipped
- un lotto = noun, ‘fleet’ (transport), also batch, lottery, plot
- metano = noun, methane
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These words come from the story
“Torino, prima città con autobus stop & start“.
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