但是该计划只是个临时解决办法，而且正是那种其本身就可能导致环境问题的华而不实的工程。
But the scheme is only a temporary fix, and is just the sort of grandiose engineering project that tends to cause environmental problems of its own.
打电话叫有职业资格证的水管工人来修就意味着一笔昂贵的小时费，但是，管道工程的科学其实是很直观的，而且大多数问题的解决办法都比你想象的简单。
A call to a licensed plumber can mean an expensive hourly fee, but the science of plumbing is fairly straightforward, and most problems are simpler to solve than you might think.
我们这个物种所给出的只算得是一个“克鲁格（kluge）”，Marcus 说，这是一个他借用自工程学的术语，用来表示那种“笨拙不精巧，但还能应付要求”的解决办法。
What our species has come up with is a "kluge, " Marcus said, a term he borrows from engineering that means a solution that is "clumsy and inelegant, but it gets the job done."
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