Windmills are a characteristic feature of the Mallorcan landscape.

风车是马略卡岛风光的一个典型的特色。

Why don't new windmills kill birds?

为什么新的风车不会杀死鸟类？

Windmills don't pollute the environment at all.

风车完全不会污染环境。

However, there are real problems with windmills.

然而，风车确实存在一些问题。

Old windmills killed birds because they spun very fast.

老式风车能杀死鸟类是因为它们旋转得很快。

One problem is that many people think windmills are very ugly.

一个问题是许多人认为风车很丑。

This is a problem for people, because windmills are often in very pretty areas.

这对人们来说是个问题，因为风车通常建在非常漂亮的地方。

In 200 B.C., people used windmills in China.

公元前200年，中国人就使用风车了。

Some resembled windmills, animal cages or ship propellers.

它们有的像风车，有的像关动物的笼子，还有的像船用螺旋桨。

I would fly to Holland to see the windmills and the tulips.

我要飞到荷兰去看风车和郁金香。

The wealthy are even putting windmills in their backyards.

有钱人甚至在自家后院安装了风力发电机。

We'll also have windmills covering the entire great plains.

我们还要建设覆盖整个大平原的风力发电机。

Egan said she extrapolated from miles of windmills that she has seen.

伊根说，她能在很远的范围以外就推测出前方是否有风车。

It's not that the U.S. lacks places off the coast to put the windmills.

这倒不是因为美国的海岸线外面缺摆风车的地方。

What country hosts the world’s largest producer of windmills (answer: India).

哪个国家掌握着世界上最大的风车生产？ 是印度。

Unlike windmills or solar hot water heaters, wave motors proved technical failures.

与风车和太阳加热器不同，波浪发电机被证明是一个失败的产品。

He would like to bring back streams to the city and build windmills to provide power.

他想要将溪流重新带回纽约市，通过建造风车提供能源。

If all such asteroids turn out to be harmless windmills, it will have been a wasted effort.

如果所有的行星都被证实是毫无害处的风车时，那就是白花力气了。

Newton, when young, made model windmills and clocks - the hi-tech artefacts of his time.

当牛顿年轻的时候，他做了一个带时钟的风车磨坊模型——在他的时代是高科技的手工艺品。

These devices act like underwater windmills, with blades that rotate as the tide flows through them.

这种装置就像水下风车一样，叶片随流过的潮汐旋转。

Waste was to have been recycled as fuel and the waterfronts were to be lined with sleek micro-windmills.

垃圾将被子回收用作燃料，海滨将布满漂亮的微型风车。

In practice, the way people feel about windmills may have as much to do with financial effects as with physical ones.

实际上，人们对风车的感觉不仅与自身影响有关，还与经济效应密切相关。

But there are constants in the landscape: smoking coal plants, flares from oil Wells and, increasingly, towering windmills.

但是这风景中总有一些身影：冒着滚滚浓烟的燃煤电厂，喷薄而出的油井以及不断增多的高大风车。

They are hoping to see 33GW-worth of maritime windmills (somewhere around 5, 000 turbines in all) built over the next 11 years.

未来11年中，他们希望看到装机容量达到33吉瓦的海上风车（总共大约5,000个涡轮机）落成。

These include renewable energy sources such as windmills and solar panels, as well as more efficient cars and power stations.

其中不仅有风力发电、太阳能板等可再生能源，还包括更高效的车辆和发电站。

From his deck, Mr. Sch?nherr can see the town’s famous hilltop Gothic castle as well as two of its three power-generating windmills.

从他的阳台板上，舒马赫先生一眼就能看见城里出了名的，立于山顶的哥德式城堡，还有它的三台发电用的风车。

Companies may brand their gigantic sales of oil and gas with greenwashing images of windmills, but they continue to sell oil and gas.

能源公司也许会谴责其大量销售石油和天然气而宣传风车的使用，让人们觉得其产品很绿色很环保，但他们会继续销售石油和天然气。