Day1:单词积累
1.Disrupt--disruptive-disruption: discontinue
E.g. The strike caused serious disruption.
-rupt[suffix]: break
�rupture
e.g.The rupture of a blood vessel.血管破裂。
A rupture in relations between the ten countries.两国关系的破裂。
2.Issue n./v. To produce sth. Such as a magazine, article,etc.
E.g. We issue a monthly newsletter.我们出版一份通讯月刊。
3.handsome: large in amount or quality
E.g.: a handsome profit.一大笔利润
4.Be anathema to : hatred to an thing or an idea
E.g. Racial prejudice is an anathema to me.对我来说, 种族歧视非常可恶。
【ana-】: 否定前缀:anaerobic 厌氧的
aerobic:有氧的
5.mourn(for sb/sth): grieve for
E.g. She mourned for her lost childhood.
6.carbon-carbonise-carbonisation
7.Perennial:adj. :continuing for a long time.
E.g. The perennial problem of water shortage.缺水这个老问题
[prefix]:per-: through
[cf:] annual: happening or done once every year
Biennial: happening once every two years
Biannual: happening twice a year
8.Spring-sprang-sprung: v. : to appear or come somewhere suddenly
E.g. Tears sprang to her eyes.泪水从她眼里涌出。
9.eternal: adj. Existing forever
Eternal truths永恒的真理
Eternal City :罗马城的别称
“still, hope springs eternal.”(文章原句)
【辨析】
10.glut: n./v. :supply exceeding demand/ in surplus
SYN:surfeit
E.g. 1. The glut of cheap videos市场上供过于求的廉价录像带
2. Be glutted with
11. deploy: v. To use sth effectively
E.g. To deploy arguments/resources利用论据/资源
SYN: utilize--utilization
12.Intermittent-- intermittency: sporadic
E.g. Intermittent showers:阵雨
【辨析】:(a)periodic:happening fairly often and regularly.
E.g. Periodic checks are carried out on the equipment.设备定期进行检查。
13.shut out (of sth): to prevent from entering a place
E.g. Ben keeps shutting me out of the bedroom.本一直不让我进卧室。
+意思:exclude sb./ to stop yourself from having particular feelings
E.g. 1) She learned to shut out her angry feelings.她学会控制自己的愤怒。
2)I wanted to shut John out of my life for ever.我想永远不让约翰走进我的生活。
14.Constrain v. --constraint n. : to limit; to force sb to do sth in a particular way
E.g. 1)The evidence was so compelling that he felt constrained to accept it.
2)Research has been constrained by a lack of a funds.
【辨析】
15.Cling to sth/ cling on to sth: a good SYN to displace“insist on”
(cling-clung-clung)
E.g. Throughout the trial she had clung to the belief that he was innocent.
在整个审判中,她坚持相信他是清白的。
16.Insulate -insulation : to protect from danger/ unpleasant things and effect.
Insulate sb./sth from/against sth.:
(SYN:shield)
E.g. The ozone layers shields the earth from the sun’s ultraviolet rays.臭氧层保护地球不受太阳紫外线的辐射。
17.Deter v.--deterrent n.: to stop doing sth.by sth
Deter sb. (from sth./from doing sth )
E.g. The high price of the service could deter people from seeking advice.
这么高的服务费会使咨询者望而却步。
18.Peg sth (at/ to sth): to fix or keep prices, wages,etc.at a particular level
E.g. Loan repayments are pegged to your income.
分期付还贷款按你的收入计算。
同义替换:Loan repayments are commensurate with your income.
19.Buck: v. To resist or oppose sth.
E.g. One or two companies have managed to buck the trend of the recession.
有一两家公司顶住了经济滑坡的势头。
20.Incipient:adj.-- incipience n. Beginning
Signs of incipient unrest:动乱的初期迹象
21.Precipitous: sudden and great SYN: abrupt
A precipitous decline in exports出口急剧下降。
22.Upheaval n. A big change that causes a lot of confusion, worry and problems
SYN:disruption
E.g. Going though massive upheaval in the education system.
教育制度的种种变革.
23..biogas: 沼气 gas, that is produced by dead plants and that can be burned to produce heat.
24.manure: n./v.肥料 SYN: dung(尤其是大型动物)
25. all told: in all
e.g. We won 100 games all told.
26. pocket: v. to earn money
e.g. She pocketed over $1 million in advertising contracts. 她从广告合同中赚了100多万。
27:表示下降的词:
slump
slash prices
28:wholesale prices: 批发价格
retail prices :零售价格
29. unabated: adj.(不在名词前使用)
the rain continued unabated. 雨势一直没减弱。
30.punch above one's weight : to do sth that is considered to be beyond one's ability
“In an industury structured around marginal cost, renewables have a disruptive puchch above their weight."
31. sth. is much the exception,not the rule.:某件事是个例,并不是普遍规律。
知识拓展:
1. IEA: www.iea.org/about/ourmission/
国际能源署(International Energy Agency--IEA)是石油消费国政府间的经济联合组织。总部设在法国巴黎。其宗旨是协调成员的能源政策,发展石油供应方面的自给能力,共同采取节约石油需求的措施,加强长期合作以减少对石油进口的依赖,提供石油市场情报,拟订石油消费计划,石油发生短缺时按计划分享石油,以及促进它与石油生产国和其他石油消费国的关系等。
2. Wildpoldsried: 德国巴伐利亚州的一个市政。
3.全球可再生能源现状:www.escn.com.cn/news/show-320710.html
www.chinapower.com.cn/informationhyfx/20160919/54955.html
4. Marginal Cost—边际成本
指多生产一单位的产品所增加的成本,例如多生产一双鞋而需要的皮料和劳动力。边际成本与诸如厂房和机器等固定成本不同,后者无论生产多少产品都不会改变。也称增量成本(Incremental Cost)。
Day2:思维简图
我的逻辑思路:一可再生能源为中心词,按照其优点,现状、和发展缺点划分层次。
安妮的逻辑思路:
1.选择用不变的对象----政府;新能源生产者;燃油生产者;消费者来解释它们之间的相互关系。
2.安妮的导图很清晰地解析它们之间相爱相杀的情史哈哈哈~
Day3: 总结
安妮问题引导:
1.可再生能源对现有电力市场带来的经济挑战的前因后果?
2.如何才能使得资本愿意流入新能源开发,从而保证新旧转型的彻底完成?
【中文概要】:在人们认为世界范围内可再生能源发展形势一片大好时,《经济学人》最新的一篇文章指出:可再生能源发展已经陷入了一个恶性循环的怪圈。可再生能源凭借其污染小,边际成本低(批发价格低)的优点迅速挤进电力市场行业,占用更高的政府扶持份额和投资份额,传统能源企业市场份额减少,被迫降价,加之投资的减少,发展低迷;另一方面,能源生产过剩,可再生能源本身的不稳定因素,以及受到各国经济实力的限制,可再生能源即将陷入投资中断的尴尬境地(已有先例存在)。而消费者成了最终的买单者。那么,该如何做才可以保证新旧能源的成功转型呢?我在另一篇文章中得到了些许答案:针对可再生能源的不稳定因素状况,我们可以采用数字化等智能化手段(数字化是学习了Uber共享经济的原理)通过存储共享,提高能源利用率;针对发电本身的问题:可以通过模块式发电提高运输效率;针对可再生能源价格过高的担忧,电力市场可以根据天气状况实时调整;另外,政府一方面鼓励能源开发的同时,也要给那些为减少能源使用的人提供适当奖励;最难的问题,其实还是掌握市场供求关系的变化。
两个问题得到同学的解答:
1.为什么说政府给可再生能源的补助越多,给传统的电力厂的补助也越多?
可再生能源收到的补助越多,生产的电力越多,供大于求,电力价格也就越低。没有人愿意投资,传统的电力厂经营的成本也就越高,但是可再生能源不稳定,又不能脱离传统的电力厂发电,所以政府就要给更多的补助。
2.消费者为什么成了最终的受害者?
电网改造也好,更新也罢,本质上都是发电成本的上升,这些最后都会通过电价提高来抹平成本。而新能源公司压缩利润是为了和同行打价格战,抢占市场。