The need for more energy to power larger cities and economic growth therein leads to the construction of dams, the consequent flooding of ecosystems, and increased emissions of pollutants.

人们需要更多的能源支持更大的城市运转和经济增长，从而导致了水坝的建设，随之而来的生态系统的洪水，以及污染物的排放增加。

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The strength of the real-estate market directly affects the construction, steel, concrete, power and appliance industries.

房地产市场景气与否直接影响到建筑、钢铁、水泥、电力和家电行业。

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The delegation will include chiefs of companies from urban infrastructure, town planning, mining, energy, legal, financial, construction, water, power, education and brand marketing sectors.

该代表团将包括城市基础设施建设、城市规划、矿业、能源、法律、金融、建筑、水力、动力、教育和品牌营销部门的公司主管。

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Analysts say the attacks may be part of the military's plans to clear the area of local communities ahead of construction of a hydro-electric power plant.

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Even if we locate a source of some kind of genuine strength, authoritative strength, it's still usually possible, as it is for Satan, to argue that that power is really at base just the concealed product of custom or what we would think of as cultural construction.

有时即使我们找到了一种真实的，权威的力量，还是有可能像撒旦所辩解的那样，这种力量其实只是,约定俗成的规矩教条的隐秘产物,或者如我们所想来自文化建构。

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Such laws also slow the construction of power plants, contributing to the rolling blackouts that crippled South Africa in 2008.

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Caterpillar Inc. is using separate Facebook sites to serve the information needs of various customer segments and constituencies including construction, power generation, paving, and financial services.

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"In the long term, certainly anything that the federal government can do to expedite the creation and ... construction of power plants, of transmission lines will improve the situation, " said Tim Gallagher, NERC manager for technical services.

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