[英伦广角] 2015-05-02 英国独立党反对风力发电

 A short boat trip from the Kent coast and you will find them, the Holy Green Grail to some and inefficient¹ blight² to others. The Fanity wind farm with a hundred giant turbine is one of the  world’s biggest offshore³ fields, dwarfing⁴ our 11-meter boat. These entire wind farm generates enough electricity for 200,000 homes every year but for Nigel Farage, the business of winds generates something else, political support for UK. He is trying to harness the kind of concern we saw at this wind farm exhibition on the Isle⁵ of Grain. They have noise that does matter. Estree Energy wants to site 2 turbines on the whole peninsular Kent. They are trying to convince the residents not to block the projects. We always need a balance, you are always going to need hydro, you are going to need offshore wind, perhaps tidal, some nuclear, some gas, but onshore wind is the most economically viable⁶ way of developing the renewable energy resource and UK has got a lot of it. This is about wind farms. I have to control my language here. For a party with little grass root organization, UK perhaps has been quick to take political advantage of this potential pool of support, hoping to organize protests, adding a dash of purport⁷ to proceedings⁸. Let me tell you something, if wind energy worked, if it produced reliable electricity, if it didn’t need to be subsidized, if the pool wins the subsidies⁹ in the reach to make it work. I’ll be all for it. I’d even accept how ugly they are. But it does not work. It is one of the greatest failures that I have ever seen. So UK bets this time the issue not just a lybism but corporate¹⁰ greed and EU subsidies, while siphoning away Tory’s climate change skeptics perturbed¹¹ by Cameron’s Habahasky approach. A lot of UK voters will prefer we still were in the 1950s without too much housing, without too many wind farms. And the whole issue of climate change, the environment issue absolutely phases into the tonight Farage’s narrator. But the wind industry is booming, helping¹² the UK toward its 15% renewable energy target by 2020, but particularly onshore turbine has presented UK with an opportunity, injecting itself into often bitter planning disputes, blowing around the country.

1 inefficient   

adj.效率低的，无效的

参考例句：

• The inefficient operation cost the firm a lot of money.低效率的运作使该公司损失了许多钱。
• Their communication systems are inefficient in the extreme.他们的通讯系统效率非常差。

2 blight   

n.枯萎病；造成破坏的因素；vt.破坏，摧残

参考例句：

• The apple crop was wiped out by blight.枯萎病使苹果全无收成。
• There is a blight on all his efforts.他的一切努力都遭到挫折。

3 offshore   

adj.海面的，吹向海面的；adv.向海面

参考例句：

• A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
• A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。

4 dwarfing   

n.矮化病

参考例句：

• In the Northwest, they are being planted by hedgerow on seedling roots, clonal and dwarfing stocks. 在西北部地区用灌木树篱把它接在实生砧、无性砧及矮化砧上。 来自辞典例句
• In the Northwest, they are being planted by hedgrow on seedling roots, clonal and dwarfing stocks. 在西北部地区把它接在实生砧、无性砧及矮化砧上。 来自辞典例句

5 isle   

n.小岛，岛

参考例句：

• He is from the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.他来自爱尔兰海的马恩岛。
• The boat left for the paradise isle of Bali.小船驶向天堂一般的巴厘岛。

6 viable   

adj.可行的，切实可行的，能活下去的

参考例句：

• The scheme is economically viable.这个计划从经济效益来看是可行的。
• The economy of the country is not viable.这个国家经济是难以维持的。

7 purport   

n.意义，要旨，大要；v.意味著，做为...要旨，要领是...

参考例句：

• Many theories purport to explain growth in terms of a single cause.许多理论都标榜以单一的原因解释生长。
• Her letter may purport her forthcoming arrival.她的来信可能意味着她快要到了。

8 proceedings   

n.进程，过程，议程；诉讼(程序)；公报

参考例句：

• He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
• to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼

9 subsidies   

n.补贴，津贴，补助金( subsidy的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• European agriculture ministers failed to break the deadlock over farm subsidies. 欧洲各国农业部长在农业补贴问题上未能打破僵局。
• Agricultural subsidies absorb about half the EU's income. 农业补贴占去了欧盟收入的大约一半。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 corporate   

adj.共同的，全体的；公司的，企业的

参考例句：

• This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
• His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。

11 perturbed   

adj.烦燥不安的v.使（某人）烦恼，不安( perturb的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• I am deeply perturbed by the alarming way the situation developing. 我对形势令人忧虑的发展深感不安。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Mother was much perturbed by my illness. 母亲为我的病甚感烦恼不安。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

12 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。