A dimmer can approximate the effect of a candle, but electricity is fundamentally incapable of producing natural ambiance.
调光器可以近似的一支蜡烛的效果，但电力是根本不能生产的自然氛围。
In the first quarter of this year, Beijing reported 6.1% GDP growth, but electricity consumption overall in the country appeared to decline.
在今年第一季度，北京宣布GDP增长6.1%，但是全国范围内的电力消耗却在下降。
The second is to choose a thermoelectric material which conducts heat badly (so that different parts remain at different temperatures) but electricity well.
第二是选择的热电材料的导热性差（这样不同部分就能保持不同的温度）但是导电性良好。
We were raised on books and computers, highways and cell phones, but now we were living in a village without running water or electricity.
我们在书本、电脑、高速公路和手机的陪伴下长大，但现在我们生活在一个没有自来水和电的村庄。
It's all very well to say that, but someone comes to the door and says "electricity" or "gas", and you automatically think he is OK, especially when he shows his card.
说起来容易，但是有人在门口说“电”（收电费）或者“气”（收气费）时，你会默认他是个没有问题的人，特别是他出示了他的证件后。
We still do those things today, but these days we mostly use wind power to make electricity.
今天我们仍然在做这些事情，但现在我们主要使用风力发电。
Historically, most cars have run on gasoline, but that may change in the future: cars can also run on other liquid fuels and electricity.
从历史上看，大多数汽车都以汽油为燃料，但这种情况在未来可能会改变：汽车也可以使用其他液体燃料和电力。
But just because an electricity company's customers can pay their bills online, it does not necessarily follow that the company's critical control systems are vulnerable to attack.
但那仅仅是为了让一家电力公司的客户可以在网上支付帐单，它并不一定意味着这家公司的关键控制系统就容易受到攻击。
As a result, it systems will increasingly no longer be a capital expense, but an operational cost, like electricity.
结果就是，IT硬件系统将不再作为一种资金支出，而是像电一样，成为一种运营成本。
It can not only repair itself but also generate electricity during constriction. The electricity may even charge up your mobile phone or MP3 player in the future.
这种人造肌肉不仅能自我修复，而且还可以在运动收缩过程中产生电力，未来甚至能为手机或MP3播放器充电。
And they do have televisions and cellphones and water and electricity but my cousin was still farming with water-buffalo.
而且他们的确有了电视手机自来水和电，不过我的亲戚们仍然在用水牛做农活。
That means you need less silicon to make a given amount of electricity, but it also makes the silicon very hot-as hot as a commercial microprocessor.
这意味着释放等量电力的情况下，需要的硅晶体更少，但这也使得硅更热——与商业微处理器差不多的发热量。
But cheap electricity is only one, albeit important, criterion for choosing the site of a data centre.
不过便宜的电能固然重要，也只是数据中心选址的条件之一。
Previously, large corporations have come out and say "I use the to produce electricity. " But they failed because they try to fit the community first.
之前，有一些大公司,声称可以是发电“,但他们最终失败了,应为他们想适应整个社区。
Hagelstein says that with present systems it's possible to efficiently convert heat into electricity, but with very little power.
哈格尔施泰因说，借助目前的系统，实现热电高效转化是有可能的，但得到的电能很小。
The American aid package was intended to improve Malawi's electricity network, but it's dependent on a commitment to good governance.
美国的一揽子援助计划，旨在改善马拉维的电力网络，但它依赖于善政的承诺。
The turbines used are compact - 20cm in diameter - but can generate 1mw of electricity each.
这些涡轮机非常小——20厘米的直径——但是每个涡轮却能成产1百万瓦电力。
The manufacturing process consumes an enormous amount of electricity, but hydroelectric power is cheap in the mountainous state of Washington.
其生产过程需要耗掉大量的电，但在山城华盛顿，水利电气能源很便宜。
In a way it is a little like solar power. We know we can convert solar energy into electricity but it has taken many years to lower the cost.
某种程度上和太阳能有点像，大家都知道太阳能可以转化成电能，但是多年以来，成本问题一直没有解决。
The three active reactors shut off automatically as designed, but a lack of electricity left workers unable to operate their cooling systems, leading to overheating.
三个运行中的反应堆如设计的一样自动关闭，但停电使工人无法运行降温系统，导致过热。
It will apply to the consumption of petrol, gas and coal, but not to electricity, on the ground that France generates 80% of its electricity from almost carbon-free nuclear power.
这项税费将对汽油，天然气和煤等化石燃料而非电征收，因为法国80%的电力来自于不产生碳的核电站。
The Japan Centre for Economic Research is heavily financed by a federation of electricity utilities, all but one of which use nuclear power.
日本经济研究中心也是由一个电力公司联盟重金资助的，该联盟中除一家之外其余的都用核能。
Once it is open, some time after 2015, it will offer zero-carbon electricity—but also more dependence on Russian energy.
一旦产出的核能开始出口（2015年之后），它给各国带来的是零碳值的供电——但同样，各国对俄罗斯的能源将变得更加依赖。
Nuclear energy provides about 11 percent of Germany’s energy supply but its contribution to electricity output is about 26 percent.
核能约占德国能源供给的11%，但其占到该国电能输出的比例约为26%。
For Westlands farmers, the promise of the solar project is not clean electricity, but the additional water allocations they will get if some land is no longer used for farming.
对于威斯·兰德的农民们，太阳能工程不仅会带来清洁电能，而且由于耕地的减少会带来更多的供水配额。
For Westlands farmers, the promise of the solar project is not clean electricity, but the additional water allocations they will get if some land is no longer used for farming.
对于威斯·兰德的农民们，太阳能工程不仅会带来清洁电能，而且由于耕地的减少会带来更多的供水配额。
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