All that winter, three days a week, we received a bucket of coal, a gift and, sometimes, money.
整个冬天，每周有三天，我们都能收到一桶煤、一份礼物，有时还能收到钱。
New coal-burning plants usually comply with the law by installing expensive equipment to filter sulfur dioxide from their emissions.
新的燃煤电厂通常安装昂贵的设备来过滤排放的二氧化硫以遵守法律。
Since the steam engine was fired by coal, the large mills did not need to be located by rivers, as had mills that used water-driven machines.
由于蒸汽机是靠燃煤来驱动的，因此一些大型棉纺织厂就不再像那些使用水力驱动机器的工厂一样，必须依河而建。
Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have a fertile soil and a favourable climate; other regions possess none of them.
世界上有些地区煤炭和矿产供应充足，土壤肥沃，气候宜人；而其他地区则不具备这些条件。
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。
The ready availability of coal inspired William Murdoch during the 1790s to develop the first new form of nighttime illumination to be discovered in a millennium and a half.
威廉·默多克在18世纪90年代受到煤炭的易得性的启发，发明了1500年里的第一种新的夜间照明方式。
While fossil fuels—coal, oil, gas—still generate roughly 85 percent of the world's energy supply, it's clearer than ever that future belongs to renewable sources such as wind and solar.
虽然化石燃料——煤炭、石油、天然气——仍占世界能源供应的大约85%，但比以往任何时候都更清楚的是，未来属于可再生能源，如风能和太阳能。
Wind turbines do not burn oil or coal and do not pollute the air.
风力涡轮机不烧石油和煤炭，也不会对空气产生污染。
Utilising the cheap and plentiful coal tar that was an almost unlimited byproduct of London's gas street lighting, the dye works began producing the world's first synthetically dyed material in 1857.
煤焦油是伦敦煤气道路照明几乎无限的副产物，利用便宜量大的煤焦油，染厂于1857年开始生产世界上第一种合成染色材料。
Most days, they'd emerge, sweaty and dirty and dusted from coal.
大多时候，他们从矿里探出身，满是汗水和尘垢。
And many of these states depend on coal, the dirtiest commonly-used fuel.
在这些州之中又有不少对煤炭——污染最大但使用普遍的燃料——难以割舍。
Environmental groups are gearing up to challenge coal plants state by state.
环保组织正在为抵制燃煤电厂而在各州奔走。
Can you imagine a house powered not by sun, wind or coal, but by living algae?
你能想象一座房子不是由太阳能、风能或者煤而是由活的藻类供应能量吗？
But coal plants have an additional strike against them: they emit harmful greenhouse gases.
但是煤电厂面临额外的压力：它们排放有害温室气体。
My dad's mum and dad were coal-miners; they had a piano, and loved music like Fats Waller.
我爸爸的妈妈和爸爸是煤矿工人。他们有一架钢琴，他们爱Fats Waller（1930年代的爵士钢琴家--译注）之类的音乐。
Breakthroughs were made in carrying out desulfurizing projects for coal-fired power plants.
燃煤电厂脱硫工程取得突破性进展。
They're helping to keep us healthy, prevent disasters, and make green energy cheaper than coal.
他们正致力于帮助我们保持健康，预防灾难，让绿色能源也能像煤一样便宜。
And it would bring the day closer when solar electricity is as cheap as that generated from coal.
这项新技术会使太阳能发电与煤炭发电一样便宜的那一天早些到来。
The answer can be found in one word: coal – or, rather, the fact that coal is cheap and abundant.
答案一个词就可概括：煤炭——或者，准确地说，是因为煤炭价廉而量大。
Mr Gay thinks solar power will be as cheap as that from big coal-fired power stations within a decade.
盖伊先生认为太阳能电力会在十年内与大型煤炭发电厂的电一样便宜。
The discovery of extensive coal and gas deposits has turned this arid, northernoutpost into a boom town.
自从发现大量的煤与天然气储备后，这个贫瘠而偏远的北方居民点变成了一座新兴城市。
The requirement is to phase out coal emissions, if we want to be fair to our children and grandchildren.
如果想让我们的子孙享有更多公平，我们就要逐步停止燃煤排放。
Technology that can trap and store carbon dioxide from coal-fired plants would rejuvenate older ones.
从火电厂捕获和储存二氧化碳的技术可能会令较为老旧的电厂重获新生。
Now, after the decline of the area’s timber and coal industries, paradise is what Bristol has left to sell.
现在，在该地区的木料和煤炭产业陷入衰退之际，天堂般的宜居环境成为Bristol仅剩可供出售的东西了。
Now, after the decline of the area’s timber and coal industries, paradise is what Bristol has left to sell.
现在，在该地区的木料和煤炭产业陷入衰退之际，天堂般的宜居环境成为Bristol仅剩可供出售的东西了。
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