单词

Bond villain

issue a Bond villain' laugh

The James Bond novels and film series feature a number of villainous characters who serve as primary antagonists.  Each story normally features a main villain bent on world domination or destruction who seeks to defeat or kill Bond, often with the assistance of secondary characters.  Bond typically confronts the villain during the story's climax and exposes the evil plot.

barn

n.仓房,牲口棚

be blanketed with

n.bedding that keeps a person warm in bed

synonymous：cover

anything that covers there was a blanket of snow

synonymous：mantle

a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor

v.cover as if with a blanket

snow blanketed the fields form a blanket-like cover (over)

adj. broad in scope or content

blanket sanctions against human-rights violators

photovoltaic

n.光电的

manure

n.any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material

v.spread manure, as for fertilization

synonymous: muck

be handsomely rewarded for

pocket $7m from subsidies

be anathema to

令人极其讨厌的事

incumbent

adj.在职的,义不容辞的

n.教区牧师,教会中的任职者

decarbonize

脱碳

government pour $150bn into supporting such investment, with America, China and Germany taking the lead.

subsidy-driven growth

perennial

adj.经常出现的;长期的;持久的

adv.经常出现地;长期地;持久地

a perennial disappointment

hope springs eternal

rebate

n.a refund of some fraction of the amount paid

synonymous：discount

a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together

synonymous：rabbet

v.give a reduction in the price during a sale

cut a rebate in (timber or stone)

join with a rebate

vt. 减少；打折扣

vi. 退还部分付款，打折扣

n. 折扣

glut

 n.the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall

synonymous：oversupply,surfeit

v.overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

synonymous：gorge,ingurgitate,overindulge,englut,stuff,engorge,overgorge,overeat,gormandize,gormandise,gourmandize,binge,pig out,satiate,scarf out

supply with an excess of

produce gluts

starkly

adv. 严酷地；明显地；毫无掩饰地

He was starkly unable to achieve coherence
the black walls rose starkly from the snow

be havoc for

n.violent and needless disturbance

n. 大破坏；浩劫；蹂躏

vt. 严重破坏

synonymous：mayhem

A continuing drought has wreakedhavocon food supplies in Zimbabwe.

write off

n.(accounting) reduction in the book value of an asset

synonymous：write-off,write-down

the act of cancelling from an account a bad debt or a worthless asset

synonymous：write-off

v.concede the loss or worthlessness of something or somebody

write something fluently, and without hesitation

cancel (a debt)

reduce the estimated value of something

Renewables have a disruptive punch above their weight.

at first blush

乍一看；一瞥

grid 输电网

doldrums

n.a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)

synonymous：stagnation,stagnancy

a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific

cling on

坚持

insulate

protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material

We had his bedroom insulated before winter came

place or set apart

deployment

n.部署;调度

clean-energy paradox:

subsidies foster deployment of  renewables; renewables depress power price, increasing the need for financial support.

be offered shorter-term fixed prices with a higher subsequent exposure to variable wholesale prices, which reduces the incentive to invest.

cannibalise its own competitiveness away

cannibalism is the act of an organism eating others of its own species.

The more renewables are exposed to competition by contracts pegged to wholesale prices, the more people will shy away from them as well.

eat into demand

incipient

adj.开始的,初期的

icon

n. 图标；肖像，画像；圣像；偶像

from dromedary to duck

n.单峰骆驼           鸭子

grumble

n.a loud low dull continuous noise

synonymous：rumble,rumbling,grumbling

a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone

synonymous：grumbling,murmur,murmuring,mutter,muttering

 v.show one's unhappiness or critical attitude

We grumbled about the increased work load

precipitous

adj.险峻的, 陡峭的

bolster

vt.支撑;加固

援助

给予必要的支持, 鼓励

支持，鼓励(某人)；改善，加强(某事物)

you are so yesterday.  out-dated

upheaval

n. 剧变；隆起；举起

a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)

synonymous：turbulence,Sturm und Drang

a violent disturbance

synonymous：convulsion,turmoil

(geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)

synonymous：uplift,upthrow,upthrust

disturbance usually in protest

liken   to

vt. 把…比作；比拟

liken the upheaval facing utilities  to that seen in the telecoms industry a generation ago

broadband  宽带

nibble

vt. & vi.啃;一点一点地咬(吃)蚕食

vt.啃出(洞);一点一点咬出(洞)

vi.(对提议、建议等)显出略有兴趣的样子

blockchain

A block chain, or blockchain, is adistributed databasethat maintains a continuously-growing list of data records hardened against tampering and revision. It consists ofdata structureblocks—which hold exclusivelydatain initial blockchain implementations, and both data andprogramsin some (for example,Ethereum) of the more recent implementations—with each block holding batches of individualtransactionsand the results of any blockchainexecutables. Each block contains a timestamp and information linking it to a previous block.

The block chain is seen as the main technical innovation ofbitcoin, where it serves as the publicledgerof all bitcoin transactions. Bitcoin is peer-to-peer, every user is allowed to connect to the network, send new transactions to it, verify transactions, and create new blocks, which is why it is calledpermissionless. This original design has been the inspiration for othercryptocurrenciesanddistributed databases.

crowdsourcing

群众外包（英语：crowdsourcing）是互联网带来的新的生产组织形式。《连线》（Wired）杂志记者Jeff Howe于2006年发明的一个专业术语，用来描述一种新的商业模式，即企业利用互联网来将工作分配出去、发现创意或解决技术问题。通过互联网控制，这些组织可以利用志愿员工大军的创意和能力——这些志愿员工具备完成任务的技能，愿意利用业余时间工作，满足于对其服务收取小额报酬，或者暂时并无报酬，仅仅满足于未来获得更多报酬的前景。尤其对于软件业和服务业，这提供了一种组织劳动力的全新方式。

thermostat

n.恒温(调节)器

stall

n.厩, 畜栏

摊, 棚

熄火, 停止转动

vt. & vi.(使)熄火, (使)停止转动

vi.拖延

vt.搪塞

Although voters give little thought to electricity markets when they are working, they can get angry when prices rise to cover new investment--and the scream blue murder when lights go out. That suggests progress may be slow and ftful. And it is possible that it could stall, leaving climate risks largely unabated.

fitful

adj. 一阵阵的；断断续续的；不规则的；间歇的