Earth Day has come and gone, but it's a fact of daily - and especially nightly - life that 1.6 billion people around the globe have no electricity in their homes.

世界地球日来了又去，但有一件事每天都在发生——特别是在晚上——全球有16亿人的家里没有电力供应。

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Electricity is getting more and more important in our daily life. It is a necessity. Withour it, we can't live even only a day.

电在我们的日常生活中越来越重要，它是必要的。如果没有它，我们甚至不可以活一天。

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It is far more than a virtue of thrift to save water and electricity in daily life.

日常生活中节水、节电不仅仅是一种节俭美德。

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"Recent protests in a number of cities denouncing the lack of electricity is a sign of potentially growing disillusionment and anger over what has become a situation of daily life for the average Iraqi citizen."

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