时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:轻松英文阅读


英语课

 What do you think are the biggest energy users in your home? Your list most likely includes your A.C., fridge, washing machine, etc. But you would be surprised to know that your smart phone is one of the biggest energy hog 1 in your home.


 
Charging the phone itself uses very small amounts of energy. The real energy impact lies in the data centers and networks that process data for your smart phone. According to a recent study your smart phone requires more energy to run than your home's refrigerator.
 
Currently, it is estimated that around two percent of the world's energy supply goes to the Internet and it contributes almost two percent of total carbon emissions 2. These numbers are only expected to rise as Internet and smart phone usage expands.

1 hog
n.猪;馋嘴贪吃的人;vt.把…占为己有,独占
  • He is greedy like a hog.他像猪一样贪婪。
  • Drivers who hog the road leave no room for other cars.那些占着路面的驾驶员一点余地都不留给其他车辆。
2 emissions
排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体)
  • Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
  • Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
学英语单词
acalolepta degener
advectitious
alkyl thioborate
angiolipomas
archidiskodon
assessment report
atriorum
autoweak
back loading
be in irons
bypass battery
candombes
Caroway
casting head
casualty of non-railway man
catarrhinian
cathode bias resistor
chammer
character(trait)
chemical reaction of negative ion
cinderella man
citronellol
committee on Technical Cooperation
control interval level
counter-fashion
cumulonimbus incus
dacryocystorhinostomy
deposite
desexualisations
direct recourse
Dore, Mt.
drawk
drought damage
exponential flareout
Fukuzawa Yukichi
get way on her
glesmann
GOCA
Hellinger distance
Hickleton
historetention
Horizontal price movement
identification numbers
idozees erectus
information exchange
inspection by variable
intergeneric
inveils
isotropic stress
k.e
kosashvili
lean best-power mixture
lesbophobia
light energy distribution
like talking to a brick wall
local transit
longitudinal valley
lymphotoxins
macrocephalas
magnetometery
mathematical tool
mccormicks
meil
mesophication
musycke
natural process
nonrainy
object connection
oblique axonometric projection
pinsks
ploughshare
postadolescent
radar approach control system
recovery area logging
regional center
reindeer mosses
risk/return trade-off
salt water loadline
septic retinitis
simulium (simulium) pingtungense
single-domain network
soil spatial distribution
soleaeform
souxite
splodge
st james's park
stag-horn calculus
stage dredging
stechkins
subscriber vision
tell it to the horse marines
to run like a redshank
Togo franc
two stage pressure gas burner
universal thread grinder
unshared-electron
upper pole
very coarse columner aggregate
Vimeans
virtual data base
white rider
yeaned