中国作为全世界最大的能源使用国,希望页岩气能够成为一种廉价、充足的新能源,就像在美国那样。美国国内天然气价格最近下探到了10年来的最低点。

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China, the world’s biggest energy user, hopes that shale gas could become a cheap and plentiful new fuel source in the same way that it has in the US, where domestic natural gas prices recently hit a 10-year low.

分析

在上述报道中,"shale gas"就是“页岩气”的意思。 页岩气是从页岩层中开采出来的天然气,是一种重要的非常规天然气资源。往往分布在盆地内厚度较大、分布广的页岩烃源岩地层中。

各种能源的英语表达

页岩气:shale gas

石油:petroleum, oil

天然气:natural gas

煤炭气:coal gas

沼气:methane

太阳能:solar energy, solar power

风能:wind energy, wind power

水能:hydroenergy, hydraulic energy, hydraulic power

潮汐能:tidal energy

生物能:bioenergy, biologic energy

例句

The oil futures market is very significant because it represents the price of energy on dates into the future.
石油期货市场对我们来说意义重大,因为它代表着未来的能源价格。

Some even dream of using natural gas to make hydrogen which would power fuel-cell cars, though advocates admit that these are still a long way off.
一些人甚至梦想用天然气制造氢,用以提供燃料电池汽车的动力,但支持者们承认这个方向上还有很长的路要走。

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