这次近3倍的涨价令人想起了1973年和1979 ~ 1980年两次可怕的石油恐慌，当时的油价分别涨了4倍和近3倍。
This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 1979-1980, when they also almost tripled.
禁运在西方引起了恐慌，导致石油价格飙升。
The embargo created panic in the West and caused oilprices to shoot up.
一丝丝不稳定都会将恐慌迅速传遍整个石油市场。
A whiff of instability would spread panic in the oil market.
儿童营养不良比例不断上升，石油和饮用水两大主要资源储备量下降而引发恐慌。
It has rising rates of child malnutrition and alarming declines in reserves of its two main resources, oil and water.
上周来自国际能源机构的两位举报者声称为了不造成市场上的恐慌，该机构故意提高了其对世界石油供应的估计量。
Last week two whistleblowers from the International Energy Agency alleged that it has deliberately upgraded its estimate of the world's oil supplies in order not to frighten the markets.
被抛售的不仅包括股票。由于恐慌的投资者急于把所有资金变现，因此常被认为可以保值的石油和黄金价格均出现下跌。
And the sell-off was not just reserved for equities -- oil and gold, which normally act as a storage of wealth, also fell as worried investors put all their money in cash.
当这种恐慌情绪蔓延的时候，美元上涨。而当投资者担心减少时，危险的资产从欧元延伸到石油和股市。
When fear was the prevailing emotion, the dollar rose, and when investors were less worried, riskier assets ranging from the euro to oil to stocks took off.
简单来说：目前出现的是恐慌性石油交易。
那些声称石油供应不能一直增长以满足全球需求的石油顶峰理论家，长期以来一直被认为是制造恐慌的人而被排斥。
PEAK-oil theorists, who claim that oil supplies cannot keep rising to meet global demand, have long been dismissed as scaremongers.
实际上，这种情况在上世纪70年代发生过。当时普遍的恐慌性屯货将伊朗石油供应中断带来的效应给加剧放大了。
This actually happened in the late 1970s, when the effects of disrupted Iranian supply were amplified by widespread panic stockpiling.
与此同时，石油买主们开始感到恐慌。
现在，占全球石油产量约2%的利比亚似乎也处在内战边缘，进一步加剧了恐慌。
Now Libya, which accounts for about 2 percent of global production, seems on the brink of civil war, creating further disquiet.
相继而来的恐慌是担忧石油输出组织没有像他们宣称的那样多的石油备用产量，这会导致全球石油供应缩小得比多数人预期的都要快。
An associated fear is that OPEC ultimately doesn't have the spare capacity they claim, which could lead to a global oil supply tightening quicker than most expect.
恐慌的抢购是石油输出国组织胜利的主要因素。
恐慌的抢购是石油输出国组织胜利的主要因素。
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