美国能源部提交的一份报告显示赶在石油峰值到来之前启动一个紧急方案来取代目前的能源供应或设备大概需要20年左右才能起作用。

As a report commissioned by the US Department of energy shows, an emergency programme to replace current energy supplies or equipment to anticipate peak oil would need about 20 years to take effect.

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但无论孰对孰错，这都是一个极富吸引力的想法：为什么不能利用光合作用用回收二氧化碳的方法来取代直接将其排放到大气中的做法呢？

Whoever turns out to be right, though, it is an intriguing idea: instead of releasing the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels into the atmosphere, why not recapture it by photosynthesis?

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显然，在我们开发结构时我们使用了很多的隐喻，但是它们并不能取代结构的作用。

Clearly, when we develop an architecture we use many metaphors, but it certainly does not take the place of an architecture.

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For Stevens, when modernity takes away God what it does is unveil the poet's Godlike powers, a power to create the world through imagination, imagination which created God in the first place.

对他而言，当现代性取代了上帝的地位,它所起的作用就是解释诗人所有的神明般的力量，这是一种在想象中重塑世界的力量，这种想象最初创造出了上帝。

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