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- The house made of wood
- 木制房屋
- Buildings produce a huge amount of carbon.
- 建筑物产生大量的碳
- Using more wood would be greener
- 使用更多的木材会更环保
- The second little pig was unlucky.
- 第二只小猪很不走运。
- He built his house from sticks.
- 他用树枝盖房子。
- It was blown away by a huffign, puffing wolf, which promptly gobbled him up.
- 房子很快被一只狼呼哧呼哧地吹走了，然后小猪被吞了。
- His brother, by contrast, built a wolf-proof house from bricks.
- 而他的兄弟用砖块建造了一所防狼的房子。
- The fairy tale could have been written by a flack for the construction industry, which strongly favours brick, concrete and steel.
- 这个童话故事可能是建筑业的推销员写的，而建筑业强烈支持砖、混凝土和钢铁。
- However, in the real world it would help reduce pollution and slow global warming if more builders copied the wood-loving second pig.
- 然而，在现实世界中，如果更多建筑商模仿热爱木材的第二只猪，将有助于减少污染、减缓全球变暖。
- In 2015 world leaders meeting in Paris agreed to move towards zero net greenhouse-gas emissions in the second half of this century.
- 2015年，各国领导人在巴黎举行会议，同意在本世纪下半叶实现温室气体零排放。
- That is a tall order, and the building industry makes it even taller.
- 这是一个很高的要求，而建筑行业更难达到。
- Cement-making alone produces 6% of the world's carbon emissions.
- 仅水泥制造就产生了全球6%的碳排放。
- Steel, half of which goes into buildings, accounts for another 8%.
- 钢铁，其中一半进入建筑，占另外8%。
- If you factor in all of the energy that goes into lighting, heating and cooling homes and offices, the world's buildings start to look like a giant environmental problem.
- 如果把所有用于照明、供暖和制冷的家庭及办公室能源都考虑在内，世界上的建筑看起来就像一个巨大的环境问题。
- Governments in the rich world are now trying to promote greener behaviour by obliging developers to build new projects to "zero carbon" standards.
- 发达国家正试图通过强制开发商建造符合“零碳”标准的新项目来促进绿色行为。
- From January 1st 2019 all new public-sector buildings in the European Union must be built to "nearly zero-energy" standards.
- 从2019年1月1日起，欧盟所有新公共建筑必须按照“接近零能耗”的标准建造。
- All other types of buildings will follow in January 2021.
- 所有其他类型的建筑都将于2021年1月建成。
- Governments in eight further countries are being lobbied to introduce a similar policy.
- 另外8个国家也被游说引入类似的政策。
- These standards are less green than they seem.
- 这些标准并不像看上去那么环保。
- Wind turbines and solar panels on top of buildings look good but are much less productive than wind and solar farms.
- 建筑顶部的风力涡轮机和太阳能电池板看起来不错，但它们的生产率远远低于风力和太阳能发电厂。
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1.gobble up 狼吞虎咽地吃
There were dangerous beasts in the river that might gobble you up.
那条河里曾有危险的野兽，会把你吞吃掉。
2.by contrast 相比之下
The private sector, by contrast, has plenty of money to spend.
私营部门相比之下有很多钱可花。
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