励志演讲 :汽车的未来(2)
We wanted something that was really affordable. The fuel cell looked great: one-tenth as many moving parts and a fuel-cell propulsion system as an internal combustion engine — and it emits just water. And we wanted to take advantage of Moore's Law with electronic controls and software, and we absolutely wanted our car to be connected. So we embarked upon the reinvention around an electrochemical engine the fuel cell, hydrogen as the energy carrier. First was Autonomy. Autonomy really set the vision for where we wanted to head. We embodied all of the key components of a fuel cell propulsion system. We then had Autonomy drivable with Hy-Wire, and we showed Hy-Wire here at this conference last year. Hy-Wire is the world's first drivable fuel cell, and we have followed up that now with Sequel. And Sequel truly is a real car.
我们需要的是人们能够买得起的汽车。燃料电池似乎不错，只有其他许多移动部件的十分之一大，并且燃料电池推进系统作为内燃机——仅仅释放出水而已。我们想利用摩尔定律来解释电子控制系统和软件方面的更新，同时我们也希望车辆之间能互通联系。所以我开始着手改造电化学发动机里的燃料电池，使氢作为能源载体。最初，通用汽车研发出的是一款名为Autonomy的概念车。它奠定了通用汽车之后的发展方向。对于燃料电池推进系统的设计，我们整合了所有关键性的元素。之后，我们在可驱使的Autonomy 中融入氢燃料驱动一线传操控技术。去年的这个研讨会上曾展出过氢燃料驱动一线传操控技术。它是世界上第一款可驾驶的燃料电池汽车。在 Autonomy和Hy-Wire之后，现在我们又带来最新一代的氢燃料电池车Sequel。Sequel是辆真正意义上的汽车，而非概念车。
But the real key question I'm sure that's on your mind: where's the hydrogen going to come from? And secondly, when are these kinds of cars going to be available? So let me talk about hydrogen first. The beauty of hydrogen is it can come from so many different sources: it can come from fossil fuels, it can come from any way that you can create electricity, including renewables. And it can come from biofuels. And that's quite exciting. The vision here is to have each local community play to its natural strength in creating the hydrogen. A lot of hydrogen's produced today in the world. It's produced to get sulphur out of gasoline — which I find is somewhat ironic. It's produced in the fertilizer industry; it's produced in the chemical manufacturing industry. That hydrogen's being made because there's a good business reason for its use. But it tells us that we know how to create it, we know how to create it cost effectively, we know how to handle it safely.
但我敢肯定萦绕在你们脑海中的一个关键问题是：氢气从何而来？这种燃料电池汽车什么时候能真正面世？我先谈谈氢气吧。氢气的奇妙之处在于它来源丰富：石油、任何能产生电能的方式，包括可再生能源。生物燃料也能产生氢气。这很令人兴奋。我们的愿望是每一个社区内都能够稀松平常地获得氢气。世界上每天产生很多氢气。 为了将硫磺从汽油中分离，顺带就产生了氢气——这让我觉得有点讽刺意味。化肥工业生产氢气。化学工业生产氢气。生产氢气是因为它具有良好的经济效益，但关键是我们知道如何生产氢气，如何降低生产氢气的成本，以及如何进行安全生产。
重点讲解：
1. take advantage of
利用；
eg. You may wish to take advantage of our instructional session.
你应该充分利用我们的教学课程。
eg. Product advertisers make positive efforts to take advantage of the various factors in effectiveness.
商品广告商总是在积极努力利用各种各样的有效因素。
2. embark on/upon
着手；开始做；
eg. Another strategy is to embark on one's own employment search.
另一个策略是开始自己的就业搜索之路。
eg. I'm about to embark upon a journey around the world.
我正要开始我环游世界的旅程。
3. follow up
在…后做（或说）；
eg. You start the work, and I'll follow up.
你先开始工作，我会接着做。
eg. The salesmen usually follow up a letter with a visit.
推销员往往在写了信之后又上门拜访。
4. on one's mind
担心；惦记；挂念；
eg. This game has been on my mind all week.
整整一个星期，我都在为这次比赛紧绷着一根弦。
eg. I just forgot. I've had a lot on my mind.
我完全忘了，我脑子里的事太多了。
名人简介：
最名人档案：
姓名：拉里·伯恩斯（Larry Burns）
性别：男
职业：通用汽车研发部副总裁
国籍：美国
毕业院校：凯特林大学（Kettering University）
密歇根大学（University of Michigan）
加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校（University of California at Berkeley）
成功点睛：时刻走在汽车发展前沿。
所在公司：美国通用汽车公司（General Motors Corporation）
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