The electric-power industry is gun-shy about building more large plants.

电力行业对建设更多的大型电厂十分担心。

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Not only do these microbes remove carbon dioxide from the air, they also grow quickly-some forms double in just 12 hours, whereas grasses and other large plants can take weeks or months to do so.

这类微生物不但能够清除空气中的二氧化碳，而且能够快速繁殖——有些种类只用12小时就能翻一番，而青草及其他大型植物则需要好几个星期甚至好几个月才能达到这样的水准。

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Trickle irrigation is especially suitable for watering trees or other large plants.

滴灌特别适用于灌溉树木或其他高大的植物。

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From it he could see a large garden that had many plants and flowers.

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So it was a major change in human evolution where people started raising animals in large groups or started growing plants in large amounts.

这在人来演化史上是个巨大的变革,人类开始大规模饲养动物,或是大量种植农作物

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Fenton says within three years the cost of large solar plants should be the same as for coal or oil power plants.

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Employees in large plants find their jobs more at risk than do employees at small ones.

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Allied Chemical and General Motors closed large plants.

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That equates to 40, 000 megawatts of electricity, or enough to displace 80 large coal plants.

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