A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
石油
Oil
The oil can is mightier than the sword.
油罐比剑更强大。
I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.
我没有签署任何合同，也没有看到任何石油。
I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
我在海上做了几年石油工人。
Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.
乙醇，在它的纯形式下，就像石油一样是假的。
Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.
大石油是个俱乐部，他们会想尽一切办法把我挡在外面。
Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.
短缺和过剩的循环是石油整个历史的特征。
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
洛克菲勒曾经解释过成功的秘诀。“早起，工作到很晚——然后去找油。”
I think within a couple of weeks, (gas) prices will revert to pre-Katrina levels. But I also believe oil prices will go up again.
我认为几周内，汽油价格将恢复到卡特里娜飓风前的水平。但我也相信油价会再次上涨。
We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.
我们不能允许跨国石油公司吹嘘创纪录的利润来欺骗消费者。我们必须尽我们所能来解决这个问题。
You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.
你必须有好的橄榄油。你应该有烹饪用的橄榄油，你应该有最后的橄榄油，就像特级初榨橄榄油。
Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.
我们应该提高汽车的燃料标准，把我们的努力集中在生物燃料和其他替代能源上，而不是为了一点点石油而摧毁一个地区。
A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.
我们需要做的大部分事情，素食饮食都能做到。但是你也要尽量减少油脂的使用，因为虽然橄榄油和其他植物油比鸡脂肪对你的心脏更有益，但它们和动物脂肪一样容易使人发胖。
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If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.
如果世界市场相信我们是认真对待能源独立的，我们要利用我们现有的所有资源，投机者就会停止投机，他们会在我们开采石油的时候开始投机。