考研But a boost in the storage capacity of batteries is making their ability to keep power flowing around the clock more likely.

但是，电池存储容量的提高使其更可能24小时保持电力流动。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Newsweek ranked 165 countries, looking at five areas that affect women's lives; treatment under the law, workforce participation, political power, and access to education and health care.

《新闻周刊》对165个国家进行了排名，考察了影响妇女生活的五个方面；法律规定的待遇、劳动力参与、政治权力以及接受教育和医疗的机会。

2013年12月阅读原文

考研"The valuable examples which they furnish of the power of self-help, of patient purpose, resolute working and steadfast integrity, issuing in the formation of truly noble and manly character, exhibit," wrote Smiles, " what it is in the power of each to ac

斯迈尔斯写道：“他们所提供的自助力量、耐心的目标、坚定的工作和坚定的正直的宝贵例子，在形成真正高尚和有男子气概的性格方面，展示了每个人的力量是什么。”

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研The move to renewables is picking up momentum around the world: They now account for more than half of new power sources going on line.

向可再生能源的转移在全世界范围内正在加速：它们现在占据了在线新能源的一半以上。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping hags and straws, we're ignoring the balance of power that implies that as "consumers" we must shop sustainably, rather than as "citizens" hole our

虽然围绕我们的环境和我们对环境的责任的讨论仍然集中在购物女巫和吸管上，但我们忽视了权力平衡，这意味着作为“消费者”我们必须可持续地购物，而不是作为“公民”来购物

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing - Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5 billion, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp me

数字经济巨头们的力量和雄心是惊人的——亚马逊刚刚宣布以135亿美元收购高档食品连锁店Whole Foods，但两年前Facebook支付了更高的价格收购WhatsApp me

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级The power of such simple psychology in fighting climate change is attracting attention across the political establishment.

这种简单的心理在应对气候变化方面的力量正吸引着整个政治体制的关注。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级But it was the ones that mentioned the actions of neighbours that drove down power use.

但正是这些人提到了邻国的行动，才降低了电力使用。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Energy to power machinery, both on the farm and in the storage and processing facilities, adds to the energy total, which currently represents about 3.1% of annual global energy consumption.

农场、储存和加工设施中的能源-动力机械增加了能源总量，目前约占全球年能源消耗量的3.1%。

2013年12月阅读原文

考研Competition law appears to be the only way to address these imbalances of power.

竞争法似乎是解决这些权力失衡的唯一途径。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研In March, for the first time, wind and solar power accounted for more than 10 percent of the power generated in the US, reported the US Energy Information Administration.

据美国能源信息管理局（US Energy Information Administration）报告，3月份，风能和太阳能首次占美国发电量的10%以上。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级According to college folklore, a well-turned essay has the power to seduce (诱惑) an admissions committee.

根据大学的民间传说，一篇好文章有诱惑力(诱惑) 招生委员会。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级They worry that the adolescent peer group has the power to push its members into behavior that is foolish and even dangerous.

他们担心青少年同龄人群体有能力迫使其成员做出愚蠢甚至危险的行为。

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

四级These teams are gaining more power to run their own affairs.

这些团队正在获得更多的权力来管理自己的事务。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Newsweek ranked 165 countries, looking at five areas that affect women's lives; treatment under the law, workforce participation, political power, and access to education and health care

《新闻周刊》对165个国家进行了排名，考察了影响妇女生活的五个方面；法律规定的待遇、劳动力参与、政治权力以及获得教育和医疗的机会

2013年12月阅读原文

考研The hardest task that television asks of anyone is to turn the power off after he has turned it on.

电视对任何人要求的最困难的任务是在他打开电源后关闭电源。

2012年考研阅读原文

四级Solar homes produce the most power on the hot sunny afternoons when everyone rushes home to turn up the air conditioner.

在阳光明媚的炎热下午，当每个人都赶回家打开空调时，太阳能家庭发电最多。

2013年6月阅读原文

考研The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

自2002年该公司收购佛蒙特州唯一的核电站——弗农一座老化的反应堆以来，这场冲突就一直浮出水面。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研They had pushed the agency to designate the bird as "endangered, " a status that gives federal officials greater regulatory power to crack down on threats.

他们敦促该机构将这种鸟定为“濒危物种”，这一地位赋予联邦官员更大的监管权力，以打击威胁。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级This settlement hands Google the power - but only with the agreement of individual rights holders – to exploit its database of out-of-print books.

这项和解协议赋予谷歌权力——但只有在个人权利持有人XA0–XA0同意的情况下，谷歌才能利用其绝版图书数据库。

2011年12月阅读原文

考研Now the company is suddenly claiming that the 2002 agreement is invalid because of the 2006 legislation, and that only the federal government has regulatory power over nuclear issues.

现在，该公司突然声称，由于2006年的立法，2002年的协议无效，只有联邦政府对核问题拥有监管权。

2012年考研阅读原文

四级They aim to be self-sufficient in power supply

他们的目标是电力供应自给自足

2013年6月阅读原文

六级Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.

煤炭和天然气主要用于发电，而石油主要用于运输，但所有这些能源的价格都是相关联的。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级That’s energy in all forms--oil, gas, coal, nuclear, solar and even wind power.

这是所有形式的能源——石油、天然气、煤炭、核能、太阳能，甚至风能。

2015年12月听力原文

四级Research findings increasingly show the power of food to treat or reverse diseases, but that does not mean that diet alone is always the solution, or that every illness can benefit substantially from dietary changes.

研究结果越来越多地显示食物治疗或逆转疾病的能力，但这并不意味着饮食本身就是解决办法，也不意味着每种疾病都能从饮食变化中获得实质性的好处。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研The Constitutional principles that Washington alone has the power to.

只有华盛顿有权遵守的宪法原则。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研The Constitutional principles that Washington alone has the power to "establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization" and that federal laws precede state laws are non-controversial.

只有华盛顿有权“建立统一的入籍规则”以及联邦法律先于州法律的宪法原则没有争议。

2013年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Already there are many alternative fuel vehicles on the market, powered by anything from solar power to natural gas.

市场上已经有许多替代燃料汽车，从太阳能到天然气，都可以提供动力。

2013年6月听力原文

考研But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the word.

但在她的新书《加入俱乐部》中，蒂娜·罗森伯格（Tina Rosenberg）认为，同龄人的压力也可以是一种积极的力量，她称之为社会疗法，即组织和官员利用群体动力的力量来帮助个人改善生活，甚至改善世界。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研The potential of this work applied to healthcare is very great, but it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giants.

这项工作应用于医疗保健的潜力非常巨大，但也可能导致科技巨头的权力进一步集中。

2018年考研阅读原文

考研But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their li

但在她的新书《加入俱乐部》中，蒂娜·罗森伯格（Tina Rosenberg）认为，同龄人的压力也可以是一种积极的力量，她称之为“社会疗法”，即组织和官员利用群体动力的力量帮助个人提高自我价值

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研The potential of this work applied to healthcare is very great, but it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giant.

这项工作应用于医疗保健的潜力非常巨大，但也可能导致这家科技巨头的权力进一步集中。

2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级More of them, though, will skip those calculations altogether and just power through the holidays into 2017: More than half of American workers don't use up all of their allotted vacation days each year.

然而，其中更多的人将完全跳过这些计算，只在2017年的假期中使用电力：超过一半的美国工人每年没有用完分配给他们的所有假期。

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

高考Other cultures may use silence in other ways, particularly when dealing with conflicts among people or in relationships of people with different amounts of power.

其他文化可能以其他方式使用沉默，特别是在处理人与人之间的冲突或不同权力的人之间的关系时。

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级The residents are billed by "net metering": they pay for the amount of power they tap off the grid, less the kilowatts (千瓦) they feed into it.

居民按“净计量”计费：他们支付从电网中取电的电量，减去千瓦(千瓦) 他们在里面吃东西。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级They are only charged for the amount of power they consume on rainy days

它们只按雨天消耗的电量收费

2013年6月阅读原文

六级"Supplying power to trains in this way would offer the shortest distance from well to wheels," he says, "with the least amount of energy lost."

“以这种方式为火车供电将提供从油井到车轮的最短距离，”他说，“能量损失最少。”

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级Chetty has not yet issued a comprehensive analysis of the relative predictive power of each of these factors.

切蒂还没有对这些因素的相对预测能力进行全面分析。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal ( ' , 地热).

技术创新释放了风能、水力、太阳能和地热等可再生能源的能量，地热).

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.

这些同时出现的挑战似乎没有那么压倒性，而是对一个数百年的老问题有了越来越好的答案：如何使电力便携。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Italy boasts more UNESCO World Heritage sites than any other country in the world, granting it considerable power and influence within the organization.

意大利拥有比世界上任何其他国家都多的联合国教科文组织世界遗产，在该组织内拥有相当大的权力和影响力。

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline-powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light, understanding energy system inertia and momentum can help you decide whether their plans are feasible.

当你听到人们谈论向任何类型的能源快速过渡时，无论是从煤炭到核能的转换，还是从汽油动力汽车到电动汽车的转换，甚至是从白炽灯到荧光灯的转换，了解能源系统的惯性和动量可以帮助你决定他们的计划是否可行。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline -powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light

当你听到人们谈论要快速过渡到任何一种能源时，无论是从煤炭到核能的转换，还是从汽油动力汽车到电动汽车的转换，甚至是从白炽灯到荧光灯的转换

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

高考On september 11, 1933, famous physicist Ernest Rutherford stated, with confidence, "anyone who expects a source of power in the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine."

1933年9月11日，著名物理学家欧内斯特·卢瑟福（Ernest Rutherford）满怀信心地说：“任何期望这些原子能转化为能量的人都是在胡说八道。”

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级Already there are many alternative fuel vehicles on the market, powered by anything from solar power to natural gas

市场上已经有很多替代燃料汽车，从太阳能到天然气都可以提供动力

2013年6月听力原文

高考Then there's the kind of popularity that appears in adolescence: status born of power and even dishonorable behavior.

还有一种流行出现在青春期：权力所带来的地位，甚至是不光彩的行为。

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级Premier Gardens is one of a half-dozen subdivisions in California where every home cuts power consumption by 50%, mostly by using low-power appliances and solar panels.

Premier Gardens是加利福尼亚州六个小区中的一个，在这些小区中，每户家庭的用电量都减少了50%，主要是通过使用低功率电器和太阳能电池板。

2013年6月阅读原文

考研As such, it needed to appreciate the economic realities, the social contexts and power relations in which each epoch stood.

因此，它需要了解每个时代所处的经济现实、社会背景和权力关系。

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books, Robert Darn ton, the head of Harvard University's library, argued that because such books are a common resource – the possession of us all – only public, not-for-profit bodies should be given the power to control them.

哈佛大学图书馆馆长罗伯特·达恩·顿（Robert Darn ton）最近在《纽约书评》上发表的一篇文章中指出，由于这类书籍是我们所有人的共同资源，只有公共、非营利机构才有权控制它们。

2011年12月阅读原文

六级Canadian scientists have found a worrisome new example of the power that birds have to spread stuff around.

加拿大科学家发现了一个令人担忧的新例子，说明鸟类传播东西的能力。

2016年12月听力原文

考研But it can be done: Glasgow's year as European capital of culture can certainly be seen as one of complex series of factors that have turned the city into the power of art, music and theatre that it remains today.

但这是可以做到的：格拉斯哥作为欧洲文化之都的一年，可以肯定地被视为一系列复杂因素之一，这些因素已经将这座城市变成了艺术、音乐和戏剧的力量，至今仍然存在。

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

相反，该公司已经做了它长期以来承诺的事情，它不会在联邦法院质疑佛蒙特州规则的合宪性，这是保持其佛蒙特扬基核电站运行的绝望努力的一部分。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研The 8-0 objection to President Obama trues on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as “a shocking assertion assertion of federal executive power”.

对奥巴马总统的8票对0票的反对符合塞缪尔·阿利托大法官在反对中所描述的“令人震惊的联邦行政权力主张”。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

国家,战争,海军大楼,原名,，在十九世纪的最后四分之一和二十世纪的第一个四分之一，即美国作为一个国际大国崛起的时期，设有三个与制定和执行国家外交政策最密切相关的行政部门。

2018年考研阅读原文

高考We are so fond of our high intelligence that we assume that when it comes to brain power, more must be better.

我们如此喜欢我们的高智商，以至于我们认为当涉及到脑力时，越多越好。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

六级Another question invites them to write about the importance (to them, agai of diversity―a word that has assumed magic power in American higher education.

另一个问题请他们写下多样性的重要性（对他们来说，这是一个在美国高等教育中具有魔力的词）。

2013年12月阅读原文

考研At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.

在托马斯·皮凯蒂（Thomas Piketty）和其他经济学家警告不平等性加剧和继承财富的力量日益增强之际，富有的贵族家庭仍然是现代民主国家象征性的核心，这一点很奇怪。

2015年考研阅读原文

高考The bicycles will have smart phones attached to the handlebars measuring how much power is being generated for the hotel.

自行车的把手上会安装智能手机，用于测量酒店的发电量。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级Rarely has there been a better example of the power of attitude, one of our most powerful psychological tools.

态度的力量是我们最强大的心理工具之一，很少有比这更好的例子。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

考研And yet, John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull and other books, says Brynjolfsson and McAfee miss the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first place.

然而，《拉的力量》和其他书的作者约翰·哈格尔说，布林约尔弗森和麦卡菲没有理解为什么这些工作首先容易受到技术的影响。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研tim Harford, author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, points to a study in the early 1980s that divided undergraduates into two groups: some were advised to set out monthly goals and study activities; others were told to plan activit

《混乱：混乱改变我们生活的力量》一书的作者蒂姆·哈福德（tim Harford）指出，20世纪80年代早期的一项研究将大学生分为两组：一些人被建议制定每月的目标和学习活动；其他人被告知要计划活动

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研The legal issues in the case are obscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have some regulatory authority over nuclear power, legal scholars say that Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting test of how far those powers extend.

该案中的法律问题并不明确：最高法院裁定各州确实对核能拥有一定的监管权限，但法律学者表示，佛蒙特州的案件将为这些权力的延伸提供一个先例。

2012年考研阅读原文

四级That lets us avoid building costly plants or buying expensive power at peak usage time.

这让我们避免在高峰使用时间建造昂贵的电厂或购买昂贵的电力。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级When investors put up money to build, say, a nuclear power plant, they expect to earn that money back over the planned life of the plant, which is typically between 40 and 60 years.

当投资者出资建造（比如）核电站时，他们希望在核电站的计划寿命（通常为40到60年）内收回这笔钱。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级That sounds like a bad deal for the power company, but it's not.

这听起来对电力公司来说是个糟糕的交易，但事实并非如此。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级Here is the most malignant threat to our personal freedom, particularly as the balance of power in the workplace has been shifted so dramatically from worker to boss.

这是对我们个人自由最严重的威胁，特别是在工作场所的权力平衡已经从工人到老板发生了巨大变化的情况下。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研But on the more important matter of the Constitution,the decision was an 8-0 defeat for the Administration's effort to upset the balance of power between the federal government and the states.

但在更重要的宪法问题上，这一决定以8比0击败了政府打破联邦政府和各州权力平衡的努力。

2013年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Academic studies have found no evidence so far that older voters have used their power at the ballot box to push for policies that specifically benefit them, though if in future there are many more of them they might start doing so.

学术研究迄今为止还没有发现证据表明老年选民利用他们在投票箱中的权力来推动特别有利于他们的政策，尽管如果将来有更多的老年选民，他们可能会开始这样做。

2010年12月阅读原文

六级Instead, some in Africa and Asia are seeing their first lightbulbs illuminated by the power of sunlight stored in batteries.

取而代之的是，非洲和亚洲的一些人看到他们的第一个灯泡被储存在电池中的太阳光照亮。

2016年12月阅读原文

高考Some experts say that women will become more effective managers than men because they have the power to reach common goals in a way that traditional male managers cannot.

一些专家说，女性将成为比男性更有效的管理者，因为她们有能力以传统男性管理者无法达到的方式实现共同目标。

2016年高考英语上海卷 完形填空 原文

六级find digital devices simply indispensablecommunicate primarily by mobile phonelight their homes with stored solar energydistribute power with wires and wooden polesbenefit their business transmit power faster promote innovationencourage competitionIt might become a thing of the past.

发现数字设备是必不可少的主要通过移动电话进行通信用储存的太阳能照亮他们的家用电线和木杆分配电力有利于他们的业务更快地传输电力促进创新勇气竞争这可能会成为过去。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级When governments lose their control on power, law and order begin to disintegrate.

当政府失去对权力的控制时，法律和秩序开始瓦解。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级In the developed world, women lag behind men in pay and political power.

在发达国家，女性在薪酬和政治权力方面落后于男性。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级Canada ranked third overall but 26th in power, behind countries such as Cuba and Burundi

加拿大排名第三，但排名第26，落后于古巴和布隆迪等国

2013年12月阅读原文

考研But that message did not play well with many in Iowa, where wind turbines dot the fields and provide 36 percent of the state's electricity generation – and where tech giants like Microsoft are being attracted by the availability of clean energy to power t

但这一信息在爱荷华州的许多人中并不受欢迎。在爱荷华州，风力涡轮机遍布农田，提供了该州36%的发电量。在爱荷华州，像微软这样的科技巨头正被清洁能源的可用性所吸引

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级In reflection, my firm belief in the power of the brand was naive, not to mention a bit snobby.

经过反思，我对品牌力量的坚定信念是天真的，更不用说有点势利了。

2018年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研The younger they learn how computers think, how to coax the machine into producing what they want 一 the earlier they learn that they have the power to do that 一 the better.

他们越年轻，就学习计算机如何思考，如何哄骗机器生产他们想要的东西一 他们越早知道自己有能力做到这一点一 更好。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Whether it is a transition from imported to domestic oil or from coal-powered electricity production to natural-gas power plants, politicians love to talk big.

无论是从进口石油向国内石油的过渡，还是从燃煤发电向天然气发电厂的过渡，政客们都喜欢夸夸其谈。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级If a home generates more power than it uses, the bill is zero.

如果一个家庭产生的电力比它使用的多，那么账单是零。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级The Gatais used to frown when they received power bills that routinely topped $

盖泰家族过去在收到电费账单时总是皱起眉头$

2013年6月阅读原文

四级But inside, special windows cut power bills by blocking solar heat in summer and retaining indoor warmth in winter.

但在室内，特殊的窗户通过在夏季阻挡太阳热量和在冬季保持室内温暖来减少电费。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the 118 power to regulate for plain packaging.

去年2月，国会议员以压倒性多数投票赞成对《儿童与家庭法案》的劳工修正案，其中包括118项对普通包装进行监管的权力。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the power to regulate for plain packaging.

去年2月，国会议员以压倒性多数投票赞成对《儿童与家庭法案》的劳工修正案，其中包括对普通包装进行监管的权力。

2016年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研In both cases, we need a rebalancing of power.

在这两种情况下，我们都需要重新平衡权力。

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考I was now fascinated by the idea of poetry, words that had the power to make or break a person's world.

我现在被诗歌的概念迷住了，这些词有能力创造或打破一个人的世界。

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

四级In fact, when you break a role or law, you lose control over your life and give others the power to impose punishment that you have no control over.

事实上，当你违反了一个角色或法律，你就失去了对自己生活的控制，并给了别人施加你无法控制的惩罚的权力。

2011年12月阅读原文

四级Broader definitions of the sharing economy include peer-to-peer lending or putting a solar panel on your roof and selling power back to the gr/d ( 电网)

共享经济的更广泛定义包括点对点贷款或在屋顶安装太阳能电池板，以及将电力出售给gr/d（电网)

2013年12月阅读原文

四级That lets us avoid building costly plants or buying expensive power at peak usage time

这让我们避免在高峰使用时间建造昂贵的电厂或购买昂贵的电力

2013年6月阅读原文

四级carbon emissions come from heating, cooling and powering our homes, offices and other buildings.

碳排放来自家庭、办公室和其他建筑的供暖、制冷和供电。

2010年6月阅读原文

六级In emerging economies, rural communities are bypassing the wires and wooden poles that spread power.

在新兴经济体，农村社区正在绕过传播电力的电线和木杆。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级without upgrades and new capacity, bridges, roads and power systems are unable to cope with expanding populations.

如果没有升级和新增产能，桥梁、道路和电力系统将无法应对不断扩大的人口。

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级Maybe car manufacturers should have some responsibility in limiting the power of their engines.

也许汽车制造商应该在限制发动机功率方面承担一些责任。

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

四级carbon emissions come from heating, cooling and powering our homes, offices and other buildings

碳排放来自家庭、办公室和其他建筑的供暖、制冷和供电

2010年6月阅读原文

六级The combination of computational power and engineering advances will eventually enable lower-cost in-home care for the disabled, widespread use of driverless cars that may reduce drunk- and distracted-driving accidents and countless home and service-indus

计算能力和工程技术的进步相结合，最终将降低残疾人家庭护理的成本，广泛使用无人驾驶汽车，减少醉酒和分心驾驶事故，以及无数的家庭和服务行业

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

四级They needn't pay a single cent for their power consumption on sunny days

在晴朗的日子里，他们不必为用电支付一分钱

2013年6月阅读原文

四级Sometimes old technology lingers for centuries because of its symbolic power.

有时，旧技术由于其象征性的力量而存在了几个世纪。

2014年6月阅读原文

考研Through experiments and observation, social scientists like Dr. Berning have learned that there is power in tying certain behaviors to habitual cues through ruthless advertising.

通过实验和观察，像伯宁博士这样的社会科学家已经认识到，通过无情的广告将某些行为与习惯性线索联系起来是有力量的。

2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

相反，该公司已经做了它长期以来承诺不会做的事情：在联邦法院质疑佛蒙特州规则的合宪性，作为保持其佛蒙特扬基核电站运行的绝望努力的一部分。

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级In the United States, the governor of a state has the power to change a sentence from the death penalty to life in prison.

在美国，州长有权将死刑改为终身监禁。

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

四级They are only charged for the amount of power they consume on rainy days.

它们只按雨天消耗的电量收费。

2013年6月阅读原文