fossil fuel
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- n.化石燃料（如煤或石油）
- 网络矿物燃料；石化燃料；化石能源
词形变化
复数：fossil fuels
英汉双解
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 |
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例句
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。
He told reporters at a recent news conference that fossil fuel prices would have to rise again before it was economically viable.
他在最近的新闻发布会上告诉记者在经济上可行之前油价会再次上升。
carbon dioxide is not the only fossil-fuel by-product to affect the climate.
建议将上句理解为“二氧化碳不是唯一影响环境的化石燃料副产品。”
Like those of many of his peers, his political career is kept on life support by the fossil fuel and electricity companies.
和他的许多同仁一样，他的政治生命是靠矿物燃料和电力公司的支持才得以延续；
Lacking domestic fossil-fuel supplies, Haiti was spending some $500m a year importing them.
因国内缺乏化石燃料供应，海地每年要花费大约5亿美元进口。
Wind can indeed supplement a grid with this needed twenty percent spinning reserve, but it cannot come close to replacing fossil fuel.
风能确实可以弥补电网需要的20%的热储备，但是它绝不可能替代化石燃料。
This goal can be achieved by ending deforestation (on a net basis) and by cutting our current fossil-fuel-based emissions by one third.
如果能终止伐林（以净值来看），并且把目前的化石燃料排放减少三分之一，就可能达成这个目标。
In terms of wind and raw solar energy, the flow is exceptionally diluted: solar is ten to fifty times less concentrated than fossil fuel.
对风能和其他天然的太阳能来说，能量流异常稀薄的：化石燃料的浓缩度比太阳能高十到五十倍。
Making fossil-fuel energy more expensive has so far not delivered much by way of controlling emissions.
从控制排放的角度衡量，使化石燃料类能源变得更贵迄今为止没有产生多大效果。
So up to 90 per cent of Britain's wind power might need to be backed up with flexible fossil fuel plants.
因此，英国多达90%的风力发电站可能需要灵活的化石燃料发电厂提供补充支持。
Emissions from coal are now the dominant fossil fuel emission source, surpassing 40 years of oil emission prevalence.
煤炭已经取代了过去40年内原油在化石燃料中的主导地位，成为了化石燃料燃烧产生二氧化碳的主要源头。
In order to address the issues of energy crisis and environmental pollution, biofuel was an ideal alternative of fossil fuel.
为缓解能源危机和环境污染，生物燃料成为石化燃料的理想替代品。
In areas with higher wind speeds, wind energy can be a highly cost-effective alternative to fossil fuel generation.
在风速较高的地方，与化石燃料发电相比，风力发电是一个非常经济有效的选择。
To meet this goal, industries will have to slash fossil fuel consumption, and low-carbon power sources will have to massively expand.
为了实现这个目标，工业将不得不削减化石燃料的消耗，大规模使用低碳能源。
Any country serious about tackling climate change will therefore want more fossil-fuel-free generation elsewhere in the system.
因此，任何一个认真应对气候变化的国家，都将会希望系统中存在更多的非化石燃料发电。
as a prime mover , a small hydro turbine can produce the independence power for agriculture and industrial machines without fossil fuel.
小型水轮发电机作为原动机能为工农业机械提供自主电源。
Mountain fires which occur mostly during mid-summer will send smoke into the air and pollute it. Burning of fossil fuel will also do so.
大部分时间发生在仲夏的山火会产生烟雾污染大气，燃烧矿物燃料也会如此。
As the exhaustion of fossil fuel, the reproducible biomass energy will become one of the effective way to replace it.
随着化石能源的枯竭，可再生的生物质能源是替代化石能源有效的途径之一。
Technically, it is safer than running on fossil fuel because you are no longer choking on your own emissions (health-wise).
从技术上来看，对化石燃料这是较安全的，因为你不再是窒息自己的排放量（健康明智的）。
Other ways to reduce fossil fuel use include transport policies that cut the number of journeys employees make, particularly by aeroplane.
降低化石燃料用量的其它方法还包括制定交通运输政策，减少雇员旅行次数（特别是飞机旅行）。
In a world where fossil fuel provides more than 80 percent of energy, what would it take to go completely green?
世界上的化石燃料提供超过80%的能源，要实现完全环保需要做些什么？
