fossil fuel

美 　英

• n.化石燃料（如煤或石油）
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)礦物燃料；石化燃料；化石能源

詞形變化

復(fù)數(shù)：fossil fuels  

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

un.	1. 化石燃料料 2. 礦物燃料 3. 可燃礦物

英英解釋

n.	1. a fuel such as coal or oil, made from decayed material from animals or plants that lived many thousands of years ago

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.

油田和起重機(jī)從土壤上升起，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.

除了依賴陽(yáng)光來(lái)獲得能量以外，一些幼小的鯊魚(yú)似乎依存于礦物燃料。

So NRG, with its fossil-fuel plants, at least benefits from lower costs as electricity prices fall.

電價(jià)下跌時(shí)，擁有化石燃料廠的NRG至少會(huì)因成本較低仍然能獲利。

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.

如果你對(duì)上述的問(wèn)題感到沮喪，你或許已經(jīng)忘記了使我們礦物燃料公司的利潤(rùn)記錄免受影響的重要性。

In the long run, solar energy technology and device to a large number of application, and also inevitable can restrict fossil fuel prices.

從長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)看，太陽(yáng)能利用技術(shù)和裝置的大量應(yīng)用，也必然可以制約礦物能源價(jià)格的上漲。

About three-quarters of the world's fossil-fuel reserves must be left unused if dangerous climate change is to be avoided, scientists warn.

科學(xué)家警告，人類要避免危險(xiǎn)的氣候變化，必須禁用約四分之三的世界化石燃料儲(chǔ)備。

Some experts estimate that the present supply of fossil fuel will not last until the end of the next century.

有些專家估計(jì)，現(xiàn)存的化石燃料到不了下個(gè)世紀(jì)末就會(huì)用完。

Stung by the concerns of voters about petrol, governments around the world have argued for an increase in fossil fuel supplies.

受到選民對(duì)汽油擔(dān)憂的刺激，全球政府激烈地辯論著要提高石油產(chǎn)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.

如果當(dāng)?shù)?/c>農(nóng)民使用化石燃料加熱溫室來(lái)生產(chǎn)反季作物，采購(gòu)這樣的農(nóng)產(chǎn)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.

基本上講，核能量和礦物燃料沒(méi)有什么太大的區(qū)別。

Meanwhile, fossil fuel corporations will be hit with a windfall tax that will be used to "deal with the effects of climate change. "

與此同時(shí)，化石燃料公司將受到用于“解決氣候變化影響”的意外收入稅的打擊。

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響氣候的化石燃料副產(chǎn)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.

短暫的礦物燃料時(shí)代行將過(guò)去，不久我們將用盡世界上所有的石油和煤炭資源。

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，生產(chǎn)和供應(yīng)糧食所需要的高達(dá)70%的能源以礦物燃料為基礎(chǔ)，而它們促進(jìn)了氣候變化。

The developed countries currently emit about 15bn tons of carbon dioxide a year from fossil fuel and industrial processes.

目前，發(fā)達(dá)國(guó)際每年從化石燃料和工業(yè)生產(chǎn)過(guò)程產(chǎn)生的二氧化碳排放量為150億噸左右。

But they are evidence of a growing trend of warmer weather that scientists say is the result of fossil fuel combustion.

但它們表明一種日益明顯的氣候變暖趨勢(shì)，科學(xué)家稱這是使用化石燃料的結(jié)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.

印度的勞動(dòng)力是如此廉價(jià)，以至于把人當(dāng)馱馬使用顯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.

數(shù)千年來(lái)，對(duì)化石能源的爭(zhēng)奪一直是戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的誘因。

In many parts of the country, electric cars will essentially be coal-powered, running on electricity generated by the fossil fuel.

在全國(guó)的許多地方，電動(dòng)汽車基本上是用煤炭驅(qū)動(dòng)的，所使用的電力還是來(lái)自化石燃料。

The only problem: somehow beating back the fossil fuel industry to a point of nonexistence.

唯一的問(wèn)題是：不知該怎么讓礦物燃料企業(yè)徹底消亡。

He told reporters at a recent news conference that fossil fuel prices would have to rise again before it was economically viable.

他在最近的新聞發(fā)布會(huì)上告訴記者在經(jīng)濟(jì)上可行之前油價(jià)會(huì)再次上升。

carbon dioxide is not the only fossil-fuel by-product to affect the climate.

建議將上句理解為“二氧化碳不是唯一影響環(huán)境的化石燃料副產(chǎn)品?！?/jz>

Like those of many of his peers, his political career is kept on life support by the fossil fuel and electricity companies.

和他的許多同仁一樣，他的政治生命是靠礦物燃料和電力公司的支持才得以延續(xù)；

Lacking domestic fossil-fuel supplies, Haiti was spending some $500m a year importing them.

因國(guó)內(nèi)缺乏化石燃料供應(yīng)，海地每年要花費(fèi)大約5億美元進(jìn)口。

Wind can indeed supplement a grid with this needed twenty percent spinning reserve, but it cannot come close to replacing fossil fuel.

風(fēng)能確實(shí)可以彌補(bǔ)電網(wǎng)需要的20%的熱儲(chǔ)備，但是它絕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.

如果能終止伐林（以凈值來(lái)看），并且把目前的化石燃料排放減少三分之一，就可能達(dá)成這個(gè)目標(biāo)。

In terms of wind and raw solar energy, the flow is exceptionally diluted: solar is ten to fifty times less concentrated than fossil fuel.

對(duì)風(fēng)能和其他天然的太陽(yáng)能來(lái)說(shuō)，能量流異常稀薄的：化石燃料的濃縮度比太陽(yáng)能高十到五十倍。

Making fossil-fuel energy more expensive has so far not delivered much by way of controlling emissions.

從控制排放的角度衡量，使化石燃料類能源變得更貴迄今為止沒(méi)有產(chǎn)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，英國(guó)多達(dá)90%的風(fēng)力發(fā)電站可能需要靈活的化石燃料發(fā)電廠提供補(bǔ)充支持。

Emissions from coal are now the dominant fossil fuel emission source, surpassing 40 years of oil emission prevalence.

煤炭已經(jīng)取代了過(guò)去40年內(nèi)原油在化石燃料中的主導(dǎo)地位，成為了化石燃料燃燒產(chǎn)生二氧化碳的主要源頭。

In order to address the issues of energy crisis and environmental pollution, biofuel was an ideal alternative of fossil fuel.

為緩解能源危機(jī)和環(huán)境污染，生物燃料成為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.

在風(fēng)速較高的地方，與化石燃料發(fā)電相比，風(fēng)力發(fā)電是一個(gè)非常經(jīng)濟(jì)有效的選擇。

To meet this goal, industries will have to slash fossil fuel consumption, and low-carbon power sources will have to massively expand.

為了實(shí)現(xiàn)這個(gè)目標(biāo)，工業(yè)將不得不削減化石燃料的消耗，大規(guī)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，任何一個(gè)認(rèn)真應(yīng)對(duì)氣候變化的國(guó)家，都將會(huì)希望系統(tǒng)中存在更多的非化石燃料發(fā)電。

as a prime mover , a small hydro turbine can produce the independence power for agriculture and industrial machines without fossil fuel.

小型水輪發(fā)電機(jī)作為原動(dòng)機(jī)能為工農(nóng)業(yè)機(jī)械提供自主電源。

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.

大部分時(shí)間發(fā)生在仲夏的山火會(huì)產(chǎn)生煙霧污染大氣，燃燒礦物燃料也會(huì)如此。

As the exhaustion of fossil fuel, the reproducible biomass energy will become one of the effective way to replace it.

隨著化石能源的枯竭，可再生的生物質(zhì)能源是替代化石能源有效的途徑之一。

Technically, it is safer than running on fossil fuel because you are no longer choking on your own emissions (health-wise).

從技術(shù)上來(lái)看，對(duì)化石燃料這是較安全的，因?yàn)?/c>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還包括制定交通運(yùn)輸政策，減少雇員旅行次數(shù)（特別是飛機(jī)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過(guò)80%的能源，要實(shí)現(xiàn)完全環(huán)保需要做些什么？