这些法律已导致美国燃料消耗的降低。
The laws have led to a reduction in fuel consumption in the U.S.
他们制订并实施了一项降低燃料消耗的计划。
They drew up and executed a plan to reduce fuel consumption.
这本书描述了能源过度消耗的问题。
The book has described the problems of excessive energy consumption.
农业是水资源密集型产业，占全球淡水消耗的近70%。
Agriculture is a water-intensive business, accounting for nearly 70% of global fresh water consumption.
他们发现，飞机消耗的燃料减少了15%（同时二氧化碳排放量也减少了）。
They found that the aircraft consumed as much as 15% less fuel (coupled with a reduction in carbon dioxide output).
其中约70%是由全球农业部门消耗的，在未来几十年里使用水平将继续上升。
About 70% of this is consumed by the global agriculture sector, and the level of use will continue to rise over the coming decades.
可再生能源只占全球主要能源消耗的一小部分，化石能源仍然占主导地位——煤炭和石油各占30%，天然气占25%。
Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.
无论是农场，还是进行储存和处理的设施，其用于驱动机器的能源都增加了能源总量。这一能源总量目前占全球年能源消耗的3.1%左右。
Energy to power machinery, both on the farm and in the storage and processing facilities, adds to the energy total, which currently represents about 3.1% of annual global energy consumption.
在衰退时期，培训预算被看成是消耗的奢侈品。
During the recession, training budgets were seen as an expendable luxury.
一旦我们的服务对他们没了用，我们就是可消耗的了。
Once our services cease to be useful to them, we're expendable.
正是它提到邻居的行为导致了能源消耗的下降。
It was the one that mentioned the actions of neighbors that drove down power use.
从植物中提取肉类所消耗的水和土地比饲养肉食动物要少。
Making meat out of plants uses less water and land than raising animals for meat.
你可能会把它当做一种人为的、处理过的、乏味的、容易消耗的命运。
You might think of it as a kind of artificial, processed, bland, easily consumable version of fate.
这还不包括运输、加工、冷藏等从生产到消费中各种工序所消耗的燃料。
That's not counting the fuel burned in transportation, processing, refrigeration, and other waypoints between farm and belly.
另一方面，在早餐后的锻炼过程中，他们平均消耗的热量比空腹后略多。
On the other hand, they burned slightly more calories, on average, during the workout after breakfast than after fasting.
自1914年以来，科学家们已经知道，以V字形队形飞行的鸟类消耗的能量更少。
Since 1914, scientists have known that birds flying in formation—a V-shape—expend less energy.
在海上进行商业扩张所消耗的投资规模之大，反映了这种东西向贸易所能创造的巨大利润。
The sheer scale of the investment it took to begin commercial expansion at sea reflects the immensity of the profits that such East-West trade could create.
为了提高能效的市场价值，所有新建筑都必须有详细说明电力和供暖消耗的“能源通行证”。
To boost the market value of efficiency, all new buildings are required to have an "energy pass" detailing power and heating consumption.
吃一顿营养均衡的早餐有助于增加我们的能量，同时也有助于补充整夜所消耗的蛋白质和钙。
Eating a balanced breakfast helps to up our energy, as well as make up for protein and calcium used throughout the night.
其他鸟类在上升流中飞行时受到的阻力减小了，它们在推动自身前进时消耗的能量也减少了。
Other birds flying in the upwash experience reduced drag, and spend less energy propelling themselves.
美国人认为，人们需要一些自己的时间或一些独处的时间，来思考或恢复他们消耗的心理能量。
Americans assume that people need some time to themselves or some time alone to think about things or recover their spent psychological energy.
随着气候变暖时产生的能源的减少以及生存消耗的能源的增加，可用于生长的能源就变得更少了。
With less energy produced in warmer years and more being consumed just to survive, there is even less energy available for growth.
一些批评人士指出，玉米乙醇的生产所消耗的化石燃料能源比它最终生产的生物燃料能源还要多。
Some critics have suggested that the production of corn ethanol uses up more fossil fuel energy than the biofuel energy it eventually produces.
为了获得有关唱歌能量消耗的经验数据，托马斯研究了鸣声率与雄性夜莺在夜间的体重变化之间的关系。
To obtain empirical data regarding the energy costs of singing, Thomas examined the relationship between song rate and overnight changes in body mass of male nightingales.
有人提出，在给定的产量水平上，能否得出这样的结论：达美航空现在的业务消耗的化石燃料比以前要少。
The question has been raised whether it can be concluded that for a given level of output, Delta's operation now causes less fossil fuel to be consumed than it did formerly.
虽然能源消耗的低增长是经济体系成熟的表现，还没有国家能做到在提高国内生产总值的同时减少能源的使用。
While the rate of growth in the use of energy declines as an economy matures, no country has yet reduced energy use while raising gross domestic product.
其中40%的电能用于老式白炽灯——这是19世纪的一项技术，它所消耗的大部分电能都浪费在制造多余的热量上。
Forty percent of that powers old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs—a 19th-century technology that wastes most of the power it consumes on unwanted heat.
这种困难将是确定无疑的，因为能源的匮乏将使高能量消耗的美国农业模式难以继续下去，而这种模式使投入少数农民就能获得高产成为可能。
This will be particularly true since energy pinch will make it difficult to continue agriculture in the high-energy American fashion that makes it possible to combine few farmers with high yields.
1939年以前建造的房屋每平方英尺消耗的能源比2000年以后建造的房屋多50%，这主要是由于微小的裂缝随着时间的推移而扩大，更多的外部空气进入了裂缝。
Houses built before 1939 use about 50% more energy per square foot than those built after 2000, mainly due to the tiny cracks and gaps that expand over time and let in more outside air.
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