The technology, Strano said, could one day be used to light the rooms or even to turn trees into self-powered street lamps. In the future, the team hopes to develop a version of the technology that can be sprayed onto plant leaves in a one-off treatment that would last the plant's lifetime.

斯特拉诺表示，该技术将来可能用于房间照明，甚至可以将树木改造为自供电路灯。该团队希望未来可以开发此技术的新形式，用于喷洒植物叶片，一次操作，终生有效。

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The century plant blooms only once in its lifetime.

龙舌兰在其一生中只开一次花。

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Environmentalists reckon that using the ethanol produced over the lifetime of such a plant would cut carbon emissions by 75% compared with burning the equivalent amount of petrol.

环保人士估计，在这样一个工厂的生命期内一直使用其生产的乙醇，与燃烧等量汽油相比将减少75%的碳排放量。

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By measuring the performance ratio, power plant owners and operators can immediately and fully predict the performance of the plant over its lifetime, accurately assessing the value of the plant.

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It often takes two years to obtain the environmental health and safety permits to build a modern electronic plant, a lifetime in the tech world.

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But bamboo is something of a tragic plant -- it only flower once in its lifetime -- and the Jiuzhai Valley bamboo flowered and died in the 1980s, depriving pandas of the food that makes up 99% of their diet.

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