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Toyota and Honda
HMC 6.03% Motor Co. on Friday
upgraded
their profit forecasts for the year ending March 2021,
crediting a revival in demand in China and the U.S.
多亏中国和美国汽车市场的复苏，丰田和本田（较前一交易日上涨6.03%）汽车公司在周五上调了截至2021年3月财年的利润预期。
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1.在公司名字后面跟数字表示这个公司的股价较前一交易日的波动情况
2.the year ending March 2021指的应该是fiscal year，fiscal year is a 12-month period used by a government, business, or organization to calculate how much money is being earned, spent, etc.在国际上不同国家或者地区财政年周期不同，所以在合作时需要标注fiscal year
3.credit作动词 表示将...归功于
有时，竞选活动的跌宕起伏会掩盖重要的政治趋势。两位总统候选人曾经就石油和天然气政策上展开讨论，很可能证明了这一点。
Even as the candidates
sparred
, key voices in the wider world – governments and corporate leaders, analysts and investors – have been asking a different question: not whether there will be a major move away from
high-carbon energy sources
like oil, but when.
就在两位候选人争论不休的时候，世界范围内的关键声音——政府和企业领导人、分析师和投资者——一直在问一个另一个问题：从石油等高碳能源的重大转变并不是会不会出现，而是何时出现的问题。
A
full-scale
shift is probably many years away, if only given the likelihood of continuing demand for oil in developing economies, as well as for industries like
petrochemicals
. Yet the timetable seems to be accelerating. And the overall direction of travel – toward lower-carbon energy sources – is unmistakable.
如果只考虑发展中经济体以及石化等行业对石油的持续需求的可能性，那么全面的转变可能还需要很多年。然而，进程似乎正在加速，并且，还朝着低碳能源发展的总体方向是毋庸置疑的。
The picture is made strikingly clear in the latest annual report by the International Energy Agency, called World Energy Outlook 2020 and published this month. It sets out four alternative scenarios, tracing not just the implications of various climate policy choices, but the huge economic effects of the pandemic.
国际能源机构本月发表的名为《2020年世界能源展望》的最新年度报告清楚地说明了这一情况。报告提出了四种备选方案，不仅描述了各种气候政策选择的影响，而且描述了疫情对经济的巨大影响。
All its models foresee an increasingly dominant role for solar energy in generating electricity, and a steady decline for coal. The importance of wind
turbines
is also projected to increase. The report does expect a post-pandemic rebound in demand for oil.
该公司所有的模型都预测，太阳能将进一步在发电中发挥主导作用，而煤炭的作用将稳步下降。风力涡轮机的重要性预计也将增加。该报告也确实预测到疫情后石油需求将出现反弹。
But even under its most conservative scenario – a fairly rapid economic recovery, and no major new climate change policy initiatives – demand is projected to
level off
in the 2030s.
本文节选自：Christian Science Monitor （基督教科学箴言报）
发布时间：2020.10.29
作者：Ned Temko
原文标题：In shift to green energy, a matter of when, not if
