carbon tax

Liaison Office

B汉译英/B

He spent all his allowance, ran up a very large number of bills and was accordingly______ debt.

Sino-Tibetan language family

catering industry

Bitcoin is a cybercurrency that is relatively anonymous and is created and exchanged independently of any government or bank.

bio-technology

In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be donehen it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughtsust mere thoughts're as powerful as electric batteries's good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.So long as Mistress Mary's mind was full of disagreeable thoughts about her dislikes and sour opinions of people and her determination not to be pleased by or interested in anything, she was a yellow-faced, sickly, bored and wretched child. Circumstances, however, were very kind to her, though she was not at all aware of it. They began to push her about for her own good. When her mind gradually filled itself with robins, and moorland cottages crowded with children, with queer crabbed old gardeners and common little Yorkshire housemaids, with springtime and with secret gardens coming alive day by day, and also with a moor boy and his " creatures," there was no room left for the disagreeable thoughts which affected her liver and her digestion and made her yellow and tired.

rural left-behind population

wildlife refuge

fiscal deficit

六十整岁望七十岁如攀高山。不料七十岁居然过了。又想八十岁是难于上青天，可望而不可即了。岂知八十岁又过了。老汉今年八十二矣。这是照传统算法，务虚不务实。现在不是提倡尊重传统吗?我老了，不免胡思乱想，胡说八道，自觉悟出一条真理：老年是广阔天地，是可以大有作为的。七十岁开始可以诸事不做而拿退休金，不愁没有一碗饭吃，自由自在，自得其乐。要看书可以随便乱翻。随看随忘，便扔在一边。无忧无虑，无人打扰，不必出门而自有天地。真是无限风光在老年。

民族复兴

Nuclear Arsenal

In the United States, imports have dropped by half in the past couple of years. Domestic production is up, and consumption is down. The administration uses this improvement to buttress its case for dissolving the Energy Department. But the appearance of less vulnerability to supply interruptions is deceptive and dangerous. Some important changes in U.S. energy use have occurred. The price of oil has been decontrolled, the strategic petroleum reserve is finally being filed, industry is using energy much more efficiently and the gas guzzler is an endangered species. But the price of natural gas is still artificially low, consumers still have no reliable source of help for reducing energy use in their homes, mass transit compared with of other advanced nations is terrible, and the lack of a substantial gasoline tax keeps that unchanged. Nevertheless, the Reagan administration argues that higher energy prices have led to energy conservation and that there is therefore no reason for further federal support of research and other conservation programs. But the real issue is how much of what would be economically beneficial is not happening, and will not happen, under current policies. Do most types of energy use technologies for supply and distribution, consumer information, manufacturing processes and the rest-reflect the reality of expensive energy or the history of cheap energy? The answer varies by sector. Large businesses with access to expertise and capital have adjusted well. Most other sectors have not in residential and commercial buildings, which consume a quarter of all the energy used in America. Only a tiny fraction of the economically desirable savings is being captured. In short, a good beginning has been made, but it is only a beginning. To abandon conservation programs and dismantle research efforts now is to save small amounts of federal dollars at a very large longer-range cost to the economy. And hopeful talk about the end of the energy crisis ignores the painful lessons of the past decade.

不可再生资源

proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

Sparkling or still? Spring or tap? Imported or domestic? Flavored or plain? There" s nothing simple about a drink of water, now that the bottled stuff outsells both milk and beer in the United States. In just a couple of decades, we" ve become a nation awash in bottled water—with tens of billions of plastic empties to prove it—transforming the Drinking Fountain on a city street into a dated curiosity akin to the public telephone booth. How one of life" s basic necessities became a heavily marketed beverage in a plastic bottle is the subject of Elizabeth Royte" s new book Bottlemania; How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It . Royte, an environmental journalist based in Brooklyn, N. Y. , shares the many, sometimes bizarre, unintended consequences of cracking open that plastic seal.

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