The power failure had traffic tangled in the city.

电力的中断使城市内的交通陷入混乱状态。

It isn't just the power failure, Charlie.

这可不是简单的停电，查理。

It says 'Due to a power failure the office is out of action. You can all take the day off'.

邮件上说" 由于停电，办公室无法运作，今天休息。"

The power failure left the whole town in darkness.

停电让整个城镇陷入一片漆黑。

On the now-defunct Russian space station Mir, a power failure once forced cosmonauts to defecate directly into emergency plastic bags, until a repair could be made.

在现已关闭的俄罗斯和平号空间站上，一次电源故障曾迫使宇航员接在应急塑料袋里，到设备修好为止。

" How? There's been a power failure in New York! " said the caller.

“怎么开啊？纽约正停电！”那打电话人的说。

The computer stopped functioning after the power failure.

停电之后，电脑就停止运作了。

When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators.

停电时，人们在摇曳不定的烛光下暗中摸索； 因没有红绿灯的指示，汽车在道路上迟疑不前；冰箱也停止工作，导致食物变质。

Temperatures have hit 110 degrees and power failures have knocked out air conditioning.

气110华氏度，电力故障导致空调瘫痪。

Secondly, if there's a power failure, you'll want to keep your fridge as cold as possible for as long as you can, right?

其次，如果停电了，你也想让冰箱尽可能长时间保持低，对吧？

The quake, which struck at about 8: 20 p.m. local time, was felt across a much wider area than Thursday's quake, with reports of power failures in Los Angeles and of some damage in San Bernardino County.

这次地震发生在地时间晚上8点20分左右，波及范围比周四的地震还要大得多，报道显示，洛杉矶都出现了停电问题，圣贝纳迪诺县部分地区也遭受了一定程度的损失。

When U.S. Airways Flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia Airport in New York and quickly ran into a flock of geese, many of which got stuck in the plane's engines, which caused a complete power failure.

时，全美航空1549航班从纽约拉瓜迪亚机场起飞，并很快飞入雁群之中，许多大雁被卷入飞机引擎中，致使引擎熄火。

This time the cooling ponds for spent but still highly radioactive fuel rods were affected by a power failure and it took engineers some 30 hours to fix them.

这次出现的停电事故导致冷却池受到影响，该冷却池专门处理废弃反辐射性仍很强的燃料棒，工程师花了30个小时才处理好这个问题。

Half of the Cuban population has been left without electricity because of a major power failure which has affected western and central provinces.

古巴西部和中部省份遭遇严重停电，一半人口没有电力供应。

So, in case of a power failure or technical problem, paper textbooks are still widely available for these hi-tech students.

所以，以防没电或出现技术问题，这些科技学生仍能广泛获得纸质课本。

17. I don't know when a light is on because the whole block is blacked out by a power failure.

由于整个地区都停电了，我不知道这个灯什么时候会亮。

One man was killed when a tree fell onto his minibus. Ten districts in the city have suffered power failures.

一棵树倒塌在一名男子的汽车上，该男子因此身亡。该市的10个城区都遭遇断电。

The operator, Tepco, has released a picture of a dead rat near one of the switchboards and suggested that that could have been the cause of the power failure.

运营商东京电力公司发表一张显示配电盘旁边一死老鼠的图片，表明老鼠就是停电的原因。

In Los Angeles, fire officials reported localized power failures and downed wires in several city neighborhoods, but said that no major damage to infrastructure had been identified.

在洛杉矶，消防官兵们报告，局部地区出现了停电和电线垮塌的问题，但目前还没有发现基础设施出现严重损坏的情形。

Back in this country, a power failure blacked out all of Puerto Rico, for the first time since Hurricane Maria struck last September.

国内方面，美属波多黎各所有地区停电，这也是自去年9月份“玛利亚”飓风袭击以来首次停电。