23考研外刊阅读《纽约时报》双语精读版训练--二十年后的世界会是...

In a slower scenario envisaged by BloombergNEF (BNEF), a research firm, in which EV sales keep rising as battery prices fall but reach just under a third of all vehicles sold by 2030, roughly $600bn of investmentwould still be neededby 2040.

按照钻研公司彭博新能源公司假想的成长较慢的情景下，到2030年，电动汽车销量将在电池代价降低的环境下延续增加，但仅占汽车总销量的比例不到1/3，则到2040年仍必要约6000亿美元的投资。

1.scenario: a description of how things might happen in the future

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next? If you woke up 20 years from now in 2041, what would be different? Here are some ideas based on numbers that don’t require a crystal ball. About 70 percent of the world population is expected to live in urban areas by 2050, according to data from the United Nations.

那末接下来会产生甚么呢？若是你在20年后的2041年醒来，会有甚么分歧？如下这些基于数字的设法不必要水晶球的邪术。按照结合国的数据，估计到2050年，世界上约有70%的生齿将栖身在都会区。

That means most cities are going to need more infrastructure.


Roads, public transportation and waste management will need massive expansion and upgrades. The average person produces 4.9 pounds of waste a day, up from 3.66 pounds in 1980. But here’s a trend going in the other direction as a result of technology: Paper andpaperboarddeclined from 87.7 million tons in 2000 to 67.4 million tons in 2018, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

这象征着大大都都会将必要更多的根本举措措施。门路、大众交通和废料处置将必要大范围扩建和进级。每小我均匀天天发生约2.2千克垃圾，高于1980年的1.66千克。翻译划线句，长按文末小步伐码打卡，谜底下期颁布~

We’re also going to need a lot more energy. The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that the world will need about 28 percent more energy in 2040 than it did in 2015 based on the number of people in the country andconsumption patterns; on our currenttrajectory, about 42 percent of electricity in the United States will come from renewable sources.

咱们也将必要更多的能源。美国能源信息署估计，按照列国生齿数目和消费模式，2040年全世界能源需求将比2015年多28%；依照咱们今朝的成长轨迹，美国约莫42%的电力未来自可再生能源。

Where will that electricity get produced? Solar power could be produced on largely unpopulated land masses and transported to population centers, an idea Elon Musk raised about China five years ago. China has “an enormous land area, much of which is hardly occupied at all,” he said, noting that most of China’s population is concentrated incoastalcities. “So you could easily power all of China with solar.”

这些电力将在哪里发生？太阳能可以在几近无人栖身的宽阔陆地上发电并运送到生齿中间，这是埃隆·马斯克五年条件出的关于中国的假想。他说，中国具有“庞大的地皮面积，此中大部门几近无人栖身”，并指出中国大部门生齿都集中在沿海都会。“以是你可以轻松地用太阳能为整其中国供电。”

Another trend that, like increasing energy needs, isn’t new and isn’t going away: on-demand everything. Technology has led us to expect that goods and services will be deliveredat the push of a button, often within minutes. That could transform real estate, especially space in cities that is currently used for retail. As companies work toward instant deliveries, they’ll need to warehouse items closer and closer to customers.

就像不竭增加的能源需求，另外一个趋向其实不新颖，也会延续存在：按需获得一切。技能让咱们想要的商品和办事在按下按钮后就可以投递，凡是只在数分钟内。这可能会扭转房地产行业，特别是今朝在都会顶用于零售业的空间。跟着公司尽力实现即时投递，他们必要将物品寄存在离客户愈来愈近的处所。

本文节选自：The New York Times（纽约时报）

公布时候：2021.11.30

辞汇堆集

1.paperboard

美[?pe?p?r?b?rd]

n.纸板；卡片;

2.trajectory

英 [tr??d?ekt?ri]美[tr??d?ekt?ri]

n.弹道;(射体在空中的)轨道;轨迹;

3.coastal

英[?k??stl]美[?ko?stl]

adj.沿海的;挨近海岸的;

词组搭配

1.consumption patterns 消费样式

2.fall over 颠仆，摔倒；绊了一跤

写作句总结

About 70 percent of the world population is expected to live in urban areas by 2050, according to data from the United Nations.

布局:sb. is expected to do sth.

或人被指望做某事

例句:Today's children are expected to make a difference to the world.

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