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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Taxation of electric cars however would help pay for the construction of new power plants.

但是，电动汽车的税收将对新电厂的建设起到帮助。

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Ministers talk of a Renaissance of nuclear power, involving the construction of up to eight new reactors over the coming decade, coupled with a huge expansion in renewable energy.

部长们在谈论复兴核电，包括在未来十年内建设多达八个新的核反应堆，以及大规模扩张可再生能源的运用。

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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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Proponents of nuclear power say construction of new plants would likely require the extension of a federal loan guarantee program, also created by the 2005 energy act, that's set to expire in 2009.

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Athenian newspapers, including pro-opposition ones, have kept an odd silence on the issue, a silence some Greeks ascribe to the power of the construction lobby.

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Ministers talk of a renaissance of nuclear power, involving the construction of up to eight new reactors over the coming decade, coupled with a huge expansion in renewable energy.

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