Then a coal slipped, the fire crackled and sent up a spurt of flame, and he woke with a start.

这时，一块煤骨碌下来，炉火噼啪一声， 窜出一股火苗，把他惊醒了。

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Then, with a bang, the butcher's wife broke out of the coal cellar, and ran down the road.

接着，随着砰的一声，屠夫的妻子冲出了煤窖，顺着路跑了下来。

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If the electricity is from a coal - or gas-fired power plant, then there are still carbon emissions from that vehicle's use.

如果电能来自使用煤或燃气的发电厂，碳排放依然是存在的。

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According to a recent story in the New York Times, the chairman of Puda Coal transferred a key interest in the coal mining company in 2009 and then turned around and sold that interest to a state-owned Chinese company.

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All the proposals envisage a giant pipe starting with a coal plant, but then collecting carbon dioxide from anyone who will capture it before bringing it out to be buried under the sea bed.

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Arguably, the biggest leap forward of all came in the 18th century, when Europeans found that they could get a lot more energy, first out of coal and then from oil.

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