Alternative forms of energy- bio-fuels, wind and solar, to name a few are certainly being funded and developed, and will play a growingrolein the world's energy supply.
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
For example, even with significantinvestments, such as the $93 million for wind energy development included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, important alternative energy sources such as wind and bio-fuels comprise only about 1% of the market today
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
Take a drink outside with a good person, a good gathering: talk with the sun and the wind with birdsong for background.
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文
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N-VAR
風
A wind is a current of air that is moving across the earth's surface.
例句
There was a strong wind blowing...
狂風肆虐。
Then the wind dropped and the surface of the sea was still...
后來風勢漸弱，海面重歸平靜。
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N-COUNT
(影響事件的)趨勢（或因素）（常作新聞用語）
Journalists often refer to a trend or factor that influences events as a wind of a particular kind.
例句
The winds of change are blowing across the country...
改革之風吹遍全國。
The world's entire aerospace industry is feeling the chill winds of recession.
全世界的航空航天工業都感受到了經濟衰退的寒意。
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VERB
使氣急;使呼吸困難
If you are winded by something such as a blow, the air is suddenly knocked out of your lungs so that you have difficulty breathing for a short time.
例句
He was winded and shaken...
他呼吸困難，身體發抖。
The cow stamped on his side, winding him.
牛重重地踩在他的肋部，使他喘不上氣來。
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N-UNCOUNT
（胃腸中的）氣
Wind is the air that you sometimes swallow with food or drink, or gas that is produced in your intestines, which causes an uncomfortable feeling.
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VERB
給(嬰兒）拍嗝兒
If you wind a baby, you hit its back gently in order to help it to release air from its stomach.
例句
If he cries when you put him down after a feed, try winding him.
如果你喂完后把他放下時他哭，給他拍拍嗝兒。
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ADJ
管樂的
The wind section of an orchestra or band is the group of people who produce musical sounds by blowing into their instruments.
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PHRASE
放屁
If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
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PHRASE
聽到…的風聲
If you get wind of something, you hear about it, especially when someone else did not want you to know about it.
例句
I don't want the public, and especially not the press, to get wind of it at this stage.
我不想讓公眾，尤其是新聞界，在這個階段聽到什么風聲。
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PHRASE
可能發生
If something is in the wind, it is likely to happen.
例句
By the mid-1980s, change was in the wind again.
20世紀80年代中期，變革又呈山雨欲來之勢。
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PHRASE
嚇唬;使焦慮
If something or someone puts the wind up you, they frighten or worry you.
例句
'I heard you had some funny phone calls.' — 'Yeah, that's why yours rather put the wind up me.'
“我聽說你接到了一些騷擾電話。”——“沒錯兒，所以你的電話把我嚇壞了。”
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PHRASE
冒險做事(或說話)
If you sail close to the wind, you take a risk by doing or saying something that may get you into trouble.
例句
Max warned her she was sailing dangerously close to the wind and risked prosecution.
馬克斯警告她說她這是在玩火，有被起訴的危險。
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PHRASE
給…潑冷水（或當頭一棒）
If something takes the wind out of your sails, it suddenly makes you much less confident in what you are doing or saying.
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PHRASE
可能發生何事;事態的發展
If you realize or find out which way the wind is blowing or how the wind is blowing, you realize or find out what is likely to happen, for example whether something is likely to succeed.
例句
He didn't like to make pronouncements before he was sure which way the wind was blowing.
在沒有弄清事態的走向前，他不想發表聲明。
Noun
1. air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure;
"trees bent under the fierce winds""when there is no wind, row""the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"2. a tendency or force that influences events;
"the winds of change"3. breath;
"the collision knocked the wind out of him"4. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk;
"that's a lot of wind""don't give me any of that jazz"5. an indication of potential opportunity;
"he got a tip on the stock market""a good lead for a job"6. a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath
7. a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
8. the act of winding or twisting;
"he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind"Verb
1. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course;
"the river winds through the hills""the path meanders through the vineyards""sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"2. extend in curves and turns;
"The road winds around the lake"3. wrap or coil around;
"roll your hair around your finger""Twine the thread around the spool"4. catch the scent of; get wind of;
"The dog nosed out the drugs"5. coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem;
"wind your watch"6. form into a wreath
7. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help;
"hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"