GM cuts 30000 jobs and close plants in North America.
“通用汽车”裁减30000个职位和关闭在北美的工厂。
Buffett began lamenting the poor sales at the units in late 2008, and has said previously that some businesses were forced to close plants and fire workers.
2008年底，巴菲特开始叹息各个子公司销售不佳的情况，在那之前还说过一些公司被迫关闭工厂、解雇工人。
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。
All the more important, then, to keep a close eye on plants that produce quantities of such dangerous materials-especially where uranium is enriched and plutonium is extracted from spent fuel.
然后，更重要的是要密切监视生产这种危险燃料的核工厂，特别是进行铀浓缩和从废料中分离钚的那些地方。
Intel said on January 21 that it would close chip plants to align its manufacturing capacity to current market conditions.
英特尔曾在1月21日表示，他们将关掉芯片工厂，以使得生产能力和目前市场状况相吻合。
Rather, the goal is to eat less of certain foods and more of others — specifically, plants, as close to their natural state as possible.
我们的目的是减少某几样食物的摄入而增加其他食物的摄入——尤其是植物类，越原汁原味越好。
So the company plans to cut 320 jobs, to reduce its production schedule to 36 units a week from 50, and to close its plants during the last two weeks of the year.
因此，公司计划裁减320个工作岗位，把一周50班次的生产日程，减少到36班次，并在今年的最后两星期，关闭厂房。
Today coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power plants dot the landscape, built relatively close to where power is needed. Most of the country’s solar generation would stand in the Southwest.
今日煤炭、石油、天然气和核能的发电厂遍布各地，与它们需要的资源本身距离在较近的地方。
"My research aims to come close to achieving the energy production that plants can obtain when converting sun to sugars in their green leaves," explains Prof. Nelson.
“植物通过叶片将太阳能转化为糖，我的研究目标就是试图模拟植物的这一能量产出过程，”Nelson教授解释说。
Earlier this week, Intel, the world's largest chip maker, said it would lay off at least 5, 000 people and close some test and manufacturing plants to deal with vanishing demand for its products.
本周早先时候，世界最大的芯片制造商intel表示由于产品需求巨大降低，公司会裁员至少5000人，并且关闭旗下的测试和生产厂。
Now plants close all the time, such closure is the evident of economic trends or microeconomic choices?
现在工厂随时能关闭，这种倒闭是经济趋势的证据,还是微观经济的选择？
Specialists in several fields, including spiders, birds, microbes, plants, mammals, and fossils, will spend two weeks in two of the remotest northern regions, close to the Bolivian border.
包括蜘蛛、鸟类、微生物、植物、哺乳动物、化石等研究领域的专家，将在靠近玻利维亚边境最偏远的北部地区逗留两个星期。
So firms planning today for production tomorrow are increasingly looking close to home. BCG lists several examples of companies that have already brought plants and jobs back to America.
所以现在许多公司计划明天的生产能更靠近本国的愿望日益浓厚，波士顿咨询集团列出了好几个已经把工厂和就业机会搬回到美国的例子。
Over the past decade, the European Union, living in close proximity to the old Soviet plants, used leverage where it could to get some of them shuttered.
过去几十年里，欧盟距离这种苏联式旧核电站很近。于是欧盟运用各种手段，在它力所能及的地方，关闭了其中一些核电站。
Even better, algae could efficiently absorb the carbon being put out by fossil fuel power plants, producing a biofuel that is close to being carbon neutral.
更好的是，藻类可以有效地吸收化石燃料发电厂排放出来的碳，制造出近乎碳中和的生物燃料。
Think of Richard Dreyfuss flinging plants through the window in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, Frances O’Connor abandoning her adopted robot son by the roadside in “A.I.
想想在影片《第三类接触》中理查德•德莱弗斯将花草从窗户中抛出的场景； 《人工智能》一片中弗朗西斯奥康纳将她收养的机器人儿子遗弃到路边的画面；
His focus on consuming plants "as close to their natural state as possible" will lead to a natural reduction in calories.
他关注的是摄入植物“尽可能保持它们自然的状态”，这样就能自然减少热量。
A close friend came for a visit the other day.I know her to be a lover of flowers and plants.
有一天，一位要好的女友来探望我，我知道她平常最喜爱花花草草。
But most of the nuclear plants, and around half of the coal plants, are due to close in the near future.
但是大部分核电站，以及大约一半的煤电站，不久即将关闭。
Manufacturers cut 156, 000 jobs in May, with worse on the way: General Motors announced plans this week to close or idle 14 American plants, imperiling as many as 20, 000 workers.
制造商在5月裁减15，600工作岗位，更糟的是：通用汽车公司宣布，计划在本周关闭或闲置14个美国工厂，危及多达2万工人。
Several claim to build “passively safe” plants that need no human or mechanical intervention to close after a fault, but rely on the laws of physics to contain runaway reactions.
一些公司声称，已建立具有“被动安全（passively safe）”特性的核电站，发生故障时无须人为或机械干预即能自动停止，它依靠物理学定律来遏制失控反应。
Don't put the fermentation container close to potting plants.
发酵容器不能靠近盆栽植物放置。
Perhaps the plants here are the real masters in the fall, they stretch out limbs desperately close to the sky to absorb the sun's energy and transform it into forms of fruit.
也许植物才是这里真正的主人，在秋日里他们拼命地接近天空，展开自己的身体，接受来自太阳的光能，并且储存成各种形式的果实。
Perhaps the plants here are the real masters in the fall, they stretch out limbs desperately close to the sky to absorb the sun's energy and transform it into forms of fruit.
也许植物才是这里真正的主人，在秋日里他们拼命地接近天空，展开自己的身体，接受来自太阳的光能，并且储存成各种形式的果实。
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