In contrast, the roots of grasses and other small plants may help to hold loose soil fragments together, thereby helping to prevent erosion by the wind.

相反，草和其他小植物的根可能有助于把松散的土壤碎片固定在一起，从而助于防止风的侵蚀。

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For example, birds may expend more of their reserves on thermoregulation if they spend the night exposed to the wind on a song post than if they are in a sheltered roost site.

例如，与在有遮挡的栖息地的鸟类相比，如果鸟类在风中露宿一晚，它们可能会更多地利用体温调节。

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Others are more hopeful: tumbling costs of wind and solar energy suggest it may soon be competitive with little or no subsidy.

另一些是更有希望的：突然大幅降低的风能和太阳能成本表明它也许很快就能在很少或没有补贴的情况下具有竞争力。

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That means the viability of those wind turbines may depend on the eagerness of these students to help upgrade the electrical grid.

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Add hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and Coast Guard personnel who will be forced out of uniform and may wind up out of work and, in some cases, homeless, and you have a serious additional burden on our economy and society.

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Moreover, the Jordanian near-miss underscores the point that we should take no comfort from the fact that the status of such weapons is unknown, since some of them may wind up being used outside Iraq.

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