The towers will stick out of the water and be lit, to warn shipping, and also be designed to be lifted out of the water for maintenance and to clean seaweed from the blades.

这些塔会升出水面并且亮灯，用以警示船只避让，同时也能够完全升到水面以上，以方便维修螺旋桨和清理叶片上的水草。

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A couple of other big shipping lines are said to be ready to test the water.

据说另外两家大型船舶公司也准备试水。

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We further damage Earth by constructing new water channels for shipping, building new factories and creating pollution with industrial waste.

由于开挖新的航运水道，兴建新工厂，因为工业垃圾而产生污染，我们进一步的破坏地球。

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Earlier this month, as part of a energy and water funding bill, the Senate approved a provision preventing companies selling or shipping gasoline to Iran from supplying oil to the U.S.

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That creates all sorts of social consequences that we'll talk about sustainability, with shipping water long distances, all the plastic involved, people's distrust of public water systems that's unfounded, and things like that are very interesting and have big public health consequences.

这就产生了很多社会问题,比如我们将要谈到的饮水污染问题,饮用水在长途运输的过程中,会受到各种塑料污染,还有人们对公用自来水系统,毫无理由地不信任,类似这些现象都很有趣,而且会导致重大的公共健康后果

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And if that's the case, why in the world would--can we justify all that shipping, all the excess energy to taste, to ship water in from France, rather then just buying something local or drinking water out of the tap?

既然如此,为什么还会有世界范围的进出口呢,为什么还要浪费能源,从法国进口呢,而不是买当地的品牌,或是直接喝水龙头里的水呢

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The thinking is that by shipping water north, the strain of overuse on the Yellow River will be relieved.

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What we've realized is that shipping water from Italy and then trucking it to our restaurant is a pretty extravagant and somewhat wasteful thing.

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And although they cannot compete with aeroplanes for speed, or with water-borne shipping for volume, they could cover in a few days a distance equivalent to a six-week journey by ship.

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