英语杂谈：07 Solar-powered battery chargers

   Did you know that in general we have on the average, i guess, about 26 eletronic gadgets¹ in our house and they are constantly all pluging them and charging them and very little that power actually goes to chargers. Some of it is just regularly running power that you are paying for. And it's anywhere from 10 to 14 dollars a month that you are paying for. Well, now here comes the new buzz on all these electronic chargers that are kind of solar power. So we're saying maybe change your charging to something this little solar power. First thing we gonna start is the power film. This was developed military application here. And look at this. It folds up and then unfolds. This is expensive it's about 100 Bucks² but it can charge even a car battery that's how much you can get out of this if you undo³ this whole thing and kind of leaving it in the sun. And there is a smaller version here to power of the power film. it's kind of fold-up version. But Look, remember you're thinking of solar panels as those big huge heavy things that go on roofs. Look at this. That's a solar charge right there. Unbelievable. Now, get to the Solio. These things are a little costly⁴ though, let me bring this over here now, I will tell you with the Solio. Still this one is about 80 bucks so we've got the cost down on this. But still it works you can plug in your electronic gadgets and let me get this right it's about an hour of sunshine delivers about 15 minutes of talk or 14 minutes of music in the little charge gadgets like a phone. And here is something brand new you are seeing here, the NOVOTHINK Surge.This is the first one that has ever been approved by Apple to recharge your things like the ipod and the iphone. So you just kind of slide it in there, set it over and this one delivers pretty powerful charge. 2 hours of sunlight gives you 16 minutes of talk time. But the cost is 70 dollars. so again I'm telling all these people great ideas just get that cost down. That's a little bit too much for me right now. But a good idea.

 

1 gadgets   

n.小机械，小器具（ gadget的名词复数 ）

参考例句：

• Certainly. The idea is not to have a house full of gadgets. 当然。设想是房屋不再充满小配件。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
• This meant more gadgets and more experiments. 这意味着要设计出更多的装置，做更多的实验。 来自英汉非文学 - 科学史

2 bucks   

n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 )；钱；（英国十九世纪初的）花花公子；（用于某些表达方式）责任v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
• They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 undo   

vt.解开，松开；取消，撤销

参考例句：

• His pride will undo him some day.他的傲慢总有一天会毁了他。
• I managed secretly to undo a corner of the parcel.我悄悄地设法解开了包裹的一角。

4 costly   

adj.昂贵的，价值高的，豪华的

参考例句：

• It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
• This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用，左不过贵了些。