1.化石燃料(如煤或石油)fuel such as coal or oil, that was formed over millions of years from the remains of animals or plants
the oil field, with its derrick rising from the soil like a shunt to coax the earth's fossil fuel to the surface.
油田和起重机从土壤上升起,就像分流把地球的化石燃料吸出地面。
Instead of being powered by the sun, then, some young sharks seem to run on fossil fuel.
除了依赖阳光来获得能量以外,一些幼小的鲨鱼似乎依存于矿物燃料。
So NRG, with its fossil-fuel plants, at least benefits from lower costs as electricity prices fall.
电价下跌时,拥有化石燃料厂的NRG至少会因成本较低仍然能获利。
If you got upset about any of this, you might forget how important it is not to disrupt the record profits of our fossil fuel companies.
如果你对上述的问题感到沮丧,你或许已经忘记了使我们矿物燃料公司的利润记录免受影响的重要性。
In the long run, solar energy technology and device to a large number of application, and also inevitable can restrict fossil fuel prices.
从长远看,太阳能利用技术和装置的大量应用,也必然可以制约矿物能源价格的上涨。
About three-quarters of the world's fossil-fuel reserves must be left unused if dangerous climate change is to be avoided, scientists warn.
科学家警告,人类要避免危险的气候变化,必须禁用约四分之三的世界化石燃料储备。
Some experts estimate that the present supply of fossil fuel will not last until the end of the next century.
有些专家估计,现存的化石燃料到不了下个世纪末就会用完。
Stung by the concerns of voters about petrol, governments around the world have argued for an increase in fossil fuel supplies.
受到选民对汽油担忧的刺激,全球政府激烈地辩论着要提高石油产量。
If the local farmer uses fossil fuel to heat his greenhouse to produce crops out of season, his produce may not be the wisest purchase.
如果当地农民使用化石燃料加热温室来生产反季作物,采购这样的农产品可能并不是最明智的。
At a basic level, nuclear energy isn't all that different from fossil fuel energy.
基本上讲,核能量和矿物燃料没有什么太大的区别。
Meanwhile, fossil fuel corporations will be hit with a windfall tax that will be used to "deal with the effects of climate change. "
与此同时,化石燃料公司将受到用于“解决气候变化影响”的意外收入税的打击。
However, carbon dioxide is not the only fossil-fuel by-product to affect the climate.
然而,并不是只有二氧化碳是影响气候的化石燃料副产品。
The end of short-lived age of fossil fuel is already in sight, soon we'll have consumed all the world's resources of oil and coal.
短暂的矿物燃料时代行将过去,不久我们将用尽世界上所有的石油和煤炭资源。
Up to 70% of the energy needed to grow and supply food at present is fossil-fuel based which in turn contributes to climate change.
目前,生产和供应粮食所需要的高达70%的能源以矿物燃料为基础,而它们促进了气候变化。
The developed countries currently emit about 15bn tons of carbon dioxide a year from fossil fuel and industrial processes.
目前,发达国际每年从化石燃料和工业生产过程产生的二氧化碳排放量为150亿吨左右。
But they are evidence of a growing trend of warmer weather that scientists say is the result of fossil fuel combustion.
但它们表明一种日益明显的气候变暖趋势,科学家称这是使用化石燃料的结果。
Labor is so cheap in India that it makes more sense to use a man as a pack horse than to expend fossil fuel.
印度的劳动力是如此廉价,以至于把人当驮马使用显得比消耗化石燃料更合情合理。
Competition over fossil fuel resources has been one of the leading sources of conflict for thousands of years.
数千年来,对化石能源的争夺一直是战争的诱因。
In many parts of the country, electric cars will essentially be coal-powered, running on electricity generated by the fossil fuel.
在全国的许多地方,电动汽车基本上是用煤炭驱动的,所使用的电力还是来自化石燃料。
The only problem: somehow beating back the fossil fuel industry to a point of nonexistence.
唯一的问题是:不知该怎么让矿物燃料企业彻底消亡。
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