Which way is the wind blowing? How many kinds of wildflowers can be seen from your front door? If your awareness is as sharp as it could be, you'll have no trouble answering these questions.
风往哪个方向吹?从你的前门可以看到多少种野花?如果你感觉足够敏锐，你就能毫不费力地回答这些问题。
Computers crunch the data to produce a rich series of atmospheric portraits-a way to measure wind speeds without measuring the wind.
电脑处理这些数据后输出一系列详尽的大气图像——大气图像可以让人不用观测风就可以计算出风速。
A natural way to think of it would be analogous to the saffir-simpson hurricane scale that is based on maximum sustained wind speed.
一种自然的思考方式是比照基于最高持续风力的萨菲尔—辛曾森飓风等级。
The intermittency of wind power does mean that we would need to run our electricity grids in a very different way.
风能中断需要我们用不同的方法运行电网。
More important, the approval of Cape Wind could pave the way for other offshore wind farms across the country, opening up a new frontier for renewable energy in the U.S.
更为重要的是，海角风能的批准将为在美国各地兴建近海风电站铺平道路，这为美国的可再生能源开辟出了新的疆域。
Cool-headed meteorologists were quick to put the story to bed: it was just an optical illusion, the cause of sunlight hitting a cloud disturbed by wind or plane traffic in just the right way.
头脑冷静的气象学家很快把这件事搁置起来：认为它只是一种光的幻觉，起因于阳光击中了一朵云彩，刚好能以一种合适的方式被风或飞机交通而使人感到不安。
With high-speed wind tests of scale models under way, the blended wing could take flight before 2020.
目前，等比例模型的高速风洞测试正在进行中，预计混合机翼能在2020年前起飞。
And to do that, they'll need a way to unlink themselves from the on-again, off-again nature of the wind.
而要做到这一点，风电厂就需要一种办法，使自身脱离风力时断时续的特质。
Tragically, along the way, the wind blast from a semi knocked our trailers out of control and pushed our truck off a 40 'bridge.
可悲的是，在路上一辆半拖车呼啸而过，强烈的侧风气流使我们的拖车失控，货柜继而被抛到40英尺的桥下。
Tragically, along the way, the wind blast from a semi knocked our trailers out of control and pushed our truck off a 40 "bridge."
可悲的是，在路上一辆半拖车呼啸而过，强烈的侧风气流使我们的拖车失控，货柜继而被抛到40英尺的桥下。
So if America's politicians continue to "lead" by sticking a finger in the wind to see which way it's blowing before deciding what to do, hope 2.0 is about changing the direction of the wind.
因此，如果美国的政客在决定怎么做之前，依然通过伸出一根手指来看风的走向，那么希望2.0将是有关风向的改变。
Using regulatory mandates has also been a popular way, at the state level, to nudge electricity generators towards getting more of their power from alternative energy sources such as wind and solar.
借助法规要求同样也是通行的做法，在各州，通过诸如风能和太阳能之类的可再生能源，推动发电机来获得更多的能量。
Sitting at the back of your bike, I held a bunch of rose, the crimson rose, with my hairs unbounded in the wind all way long.
是坐在你的车后，怀抱一束鲜红的玫瑰，那种血也似的欲滴的鲜红，一路长发迎空飘扬。
A smart grid could also provide for the two-way flow of electricity, as well as large-scale integration of intermittent solar and wind energy.
智能电网也可能提供电力的双向流动，同时提供大范围内的间歇太阳能和风能的一体化。
Marcus' company has a long way to go before they can turn their prototype system into the kind of technology that can be deployed at the nation's vast wind farms.
马库斯的公司还需长期摸索，才能把样机系统转化为成熟技术，从而在全国广阔的风力发电场中派上用场。
These are one of the few ways (but not the only way, see article) that energy from transient sources like the wind can be stored in grid-filling quantities.
抽水蓄能电站是大量储存风电这类短时出现能源的少数几个有效方法之一。
If you camping, chances are you want to plan a route that includes lots of campgrounds along the way, whereas if you're staying at a hotel, you'll probably just wind up going city to city.
如果你想野营，你需要制定线路，其中包括沿途的野营点。如果你想住在宾馆，你只要一个城市接着一个城市旅游就可以了。
But researchers at the California Institute of Technology say the way fish school will help create more efficient designs for wind farms.
不过，来自加州理工学院的研究者们却称，通过对鱼群的仿生学习，能够设计出效能更高的风力发电厂。
Sails are not the only way of collecting power from the wind, though.
不过，帆并不是风力发电的唯一途径。
We've chosen to buy our electricity from a wind-power provider, and I have a few compact fluorescent bulbs (mostly in out-of-the-way places).
我们是被动选择从风能供应商那买下电能的，我也只有很少的几个紧凑型荧光灯(大部分还是在不怎么去的地方使用)。
So a window is the space in the wall where the wind looks in; or at least did until people started sticking sheets of glass in the way.
窗户就是墙上让风看进来的空洞，直到它开始被人用一块块玻璃堵上。
If you're one of these types of people that are always trying to figure out which way the wind is blowing, decision making can be difficult.
如果你是随风使舵那一类人，做决定才会是件难事。
John Constable, its director of policy and research, said: "It's not surprising they are this tall because the location is a long way south and a long way inland where there is not that much wind."
JohnConstable，再生能源基金会政策和研究负责人说：“这些涡轮机这么高并不惊奇，因为其位置距离南部和内陆都很远，那里没有太多的风。”
"The best way to think about reality," the narrator of "the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" declares, is "to get as far away from it as possible."
“对现实的思考，”《上发条鸟记事》中的主人公曾声称“最好的方法是尽可能的远离现实”。
When you arrive at the dacha's faux-neoclassical gate, you have to leave your car and hop into one of the Kremlin's vehicles that slowly wind their way through a silent forest of snow-tipped firs.
当你到达别墅的大门时，你必须下车上克林姆林宫的车，车慢慢开过积雪覆盖的寂静森林。
An indication of the way the wind is blowing came in July when T. Boone Pickens, an oilman turned clean-energy entrepreneur, decided to call off plans for the world's biggest wind farm, in Texas.
BoonePickens(注3)，这位由石油转行作清洁能源的企业家，决定叫停在德州修建的世界最大风电场，预示着7月“风向”起了变化。
Peach blossom in the way to go in silence, day of the warm, warm wind, warm mood.
默默地走在桃花盛开路上，天暖暖的，风暖暖的，心情也暖暖的。
The feathers wind their gloomy way along the streets, and come within the sound of a church bell.
翎毛沿着街道，忧郁地、曲曲折折地向前行进，已经可以听到教堂的钟声。
The feathers wind their gloomy way along the streets, and come within the sound of a church bell.
翎毛沿着街道，忧郁地、曲曲折折地向前行进，已经可以听到教堂的钟声。
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