The cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.
在过去八年中，太阳能电池板的成本下降了80%，风力涡轮机的成本下降了近三分之一。
If tide, wind and wave power are all developed, Britain would be able to close gas, coal and nuclear power plants and export renewable power to other parts of Europe.
如果潮汐能、风能和波浪能都得到发展，英国就可以关闭天然气、煤炭和核能发电厂，并向欧洲其他地区出口可再生能源。
A strong wind of dust storms can carry heavy objects, so you should try to stay low, and close to the ground, and protect your head with your arms or a backpack.
强劲的沙尘暴可以卷起重物，所以你应该尽量保持低姿态，靠近地面，并用你的手臂或背包保护你的头部。
The captain kept a close watch on the wind.
船长仔细观察风头。
But on a hillside that means the wind (which tends to follow the ground when it is close to the surface) hits the blades of the turbines at an Angle, instead of face on.
但由于近地面风风向会跟随地形变化，在山坡，这便意味着风会以一定角度撞击涡轮，而不是正面撞击。
If potential wind capacity were fully exploited, production could be close to 96 terawatthours (TWh) a year, according to the Bank.
世界银行认为，如果潜在的风能能够得到充分的利用，产量将有可能接近每年96太瓦。
Close to the ground, wind speed increases quickly with height.
靠近地面，风速随高度迅速增大。
The wind close to the ground is streakier than the stuff higher up, and it doesn’t blow as hard.
贴近地面的风比高处更易变，并且不那么猛烈。
So how did Fiat wind up parking its cars on a busy New York street close to the entrance of the Holland Tunnel?
那么，菲亚特怎么能将新车停在接近纽约Holland隧道入口的繁忙街道上？
But if that ground is, indeed, sloping, it means that the wind (which tends to follow the ground when it is close to the surface) hits the blades of the turbines at an Angle instead of face on.
但是，如果此处地面确实是倾斜的，这则意味着风(贴近地面吹向叶面)从一种角度吹向发电机叶片，而非正面对吹。
He spent seven hours battling biting wind and freezing temperatures to get as close to the eruption as possible, against the advice of local guides.
顶着凛冽刺骨的寒风，阿普尔不顾当地向导的劝告，跋涉了七个小时就是为了尽可能接近火山的喷发区。
Uranium generates gigantic amounts of energy in a very small space, which wind and solar combined cannot come close to.
铀在一块很小的地方就能产生巨大的能量，这是风能和太阳能联合起来也无法比拟的。
Glasgow is on the same latitude as Moscow but because it is close to the warm Atlantic Ocean shores and lies in the path of a prevailing westerly wind, it has a significantly more moderate climate.
格拉斯哥和莫斯科在同一纬度，但是因为它靠近温暖的大西洋海岸并且处于西风影响下，所以有着很适中的气候。
Renewable energy now accounts for about 15% of Germany’s electricity production. Much of that comes from wind generation that is coming close to being cost-competitive with fossil fuels.
目前，可再生能源占到德国总发电量的15%，其中大部分来自于风力发电，风力发电在成本上现在已经基本上可以与化石能源竞争。
It's a gas giant planet also called Osiris, and it's orbiting so close to its star that some of its atmosphere gets blown away by the stellar wind.
它是颗气态大行星，也叫“欧西·里斯”星。它的运行轨迹过于接近其恒星，致使它的部分大气层被恒星吹起。
But Dongtan has been put on hold indefinitely and, save for the bridge-tunnel and a wind farm, close to nothing has been built.
然而，东滩已被搁置。除了桥梁、隧道和风力发电厂，附近几乎没有什么建筑。
Occasionally the cracks of t’under rush across the water, close enough to rattle your ribcage; then the wind rustles through the trees or fizzes across the water, followed suddenly by rain.
有时雷电就打在水边，近得要击中你的胸腔。然后风呼呼吹过树林和水面，突然就下起雨来。
Feng opened the door to see her go but the chilly wind forced him to close the door.
冯英龙开门目送母亲离开，但是寒风凛冽，他只好又关上门。
Galleon’s traders were encouraged to sail close to the wind—as one put it, you “get an edge or you’re gone”.
帆船集团的人被鼓励顶风而行，正如一个人所说的，你“要么站在边上，要么就掉下去”。
Another blow came from the decision of Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas to close the UK's only blade manufacturing plant on the Isle of Wight.
该项目的另一个打击来自丹麦风力发电机制造商维斯塔斯（Vestas）公司，该公司决定关闭其设在英国怀特岛上的英国唯一的风力发电机叶片制造厂。
"Bright light too close to bedtime can make it hard to fall asleep," Arnedt says. That's because dimness signals the biological clock that it's time to wind down, while bright light says "daytime!"
“睡前光线过强也会影响睡眠，”阿内德特说，这是因为弱光会给我们的生物钟发出信号“该休息了”，而强光发出的信号则是“白天到了！”
Ketch RIGS generally do not sail as fast or as close to the wind as a sloop.
不如单桅帆船快或者贴近风向。
Wind can indeed supplement a grid with this needed twenty percent spinning reserve, but it cannot come close to replacing fossil fuel.
风能确实可以弥补电网需要的20%的热储备，但是它绝不可能替代化石燃料。
The door banged close in the wind.
一阵风把门“砰”的一声关上了。
Open coffin, shroud close touch on the wind into a powder.
打开棺木，严密的裹尸布一碰就风化成粉末了。
The wind really meanness, and my mouth close dry.
这风真鄙陋，把我的嘴都亲干了。
A little uncomfortable occasionally -if a human walked too close, if the wind blew the wrong way.
虽然偶尔有一点令人不舒服——像人类走得太近，或风吹错了方向。
You say that you love the wind, but you close your Windows when wind blows.
你说你喜欢风，但当风吹的时候，你却关上了窗户。
As you close in on the point where the Atlantic meets the Indian Ocean the race will be almost over, the wind can die off leaving a nail biting finish to a 3,500 nautical mile race.
当你们逐渐靠近大西洋与印度洋的交汇处时，这个赛段的比赛就基本要完成了，风速逐渐消逝，3,500海里激烈的角逐马上就要结束了。
As you close in on the point where the Atlantic meets the Indian Ocean the race will be almost over, the wind can die off leaving a nail biting finish to a 3,500 nautical mile race.
当你们逐渐靠近大西洋与印度洋的交汇处时，这个赛段的比赛就基本要完成了，风速逐渐消逝，3,500海里激烈的角逐马上就要结束了。
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