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- MOTC to Pump Funds into Electric Bus Development
to pump:抽出(take out)
交通部將資金投入電動巴士發展
內文:
Transport Minister Lin Chia-lung says the government has allocated
8.5-billion N-T for the development of electric buses over the next four
years.
The funding is part of a program to upgrade all of the island's gasoline and
diesel-powered public buses to electric ones by 2030.
Transport Minister:交通部長
to allocate:撥出(set aside)、分配
electric buses:電動大客車
to upgrade:升級
gasoline and diesel-powered:以汽油和柴油為動力
According to Lin, the government believes the development of electric buses
will increase the usage (使用) of public transportation systems and spur
growth in the island's electric vehicle industry.
Lin says it's hoped that the electric vehicle sector can become one of
Taiwan's so-called 'strategic industries' within the next 10 years.
usage:使用
to spur:刺激(to give an incentive)
strategic industries:戰略產業
- Nicaragua Creates Space Agency
尼加拉瓜2021年2月19日創建太空總署
Nicaragua has created a new National Ministry for Extraterrestrial Space
Affairs, The Moon and Other Celestial Bodies.
The agency was approved by 76 legislators in the country's congress, which is
Dominated by President Daniel Ortega's Sandinista Party.
Extraterrestrial:外星的(of or from outside the earth or its atmosphere.)
Celestial:天體(astronomical)
be approved:被批准
congress:國會
be dominated:被主導
The ministry will be under the control of the nation's army, though it is not
clear exactly what the ministry is supposed to do.
Critics said the country does not have the money to spare
(額外的,備用的;多餘的) for space exploration.
It has yet to acquire any coronavirus vaccines and has been in a deep social
and economic crisis since the government quashed mass protests in 2018.
under the control of:在控制之下
is supposed to:應該
critics:批評人士
to spare:額外的,備用的;多餘的
exploration:探索
vaccines:疫苗
crisis:危機
to quash:取消(to cancel)
mass protests:大規模抗議活動