They are also a good way to test if a local market for oil exists.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

This is a gift of flour and oil and incense, which is burned after a portion is removed for the priests as dues to the priests, the rest is burned on the altar again with a sweet smell from the incense.

祭品是面粉、油和香，这香的一部分被掰去，作为祭司的会费,剩下的部分摆在祭坛里燃烧,会发出一股甜甜的味道。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I ended up in the newspaper the next day for having argued that they are way off on their investment opportunities because oil is such a volatile thing.

结果第二天的报纸就报导,我提出,他们在投资的选择上错得离谱,因为石油是易变的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But falling demand, including reduced demand for oil, has cut trade around the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

The fascinating part about this layer is that it solves the problem for phospholipids about how to exist in water when half of you wants to be in oil, and that the water soluble part of the top leaflet here, of the top points up into the water, and the fatty acid chains point down.

这层膜的迷人之处在于,它解决了磷脂,如何存在于水中和油脂中的问题,水溶性的顶端部分,向上插入水中,而脂肪链则指向下

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Mr.Obama said he has enacted other reforms, including re-examining the environmental procedures for oil and gas exploration and development.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

I computed the returns on the stocks, bonds, and oil for every year from 1983 and I computed the average returns, which I take as the expected returns, I took the standard deviations, and I took the covariance.

我计算了从1983年以来每年的股票,债券和石油的收益，从而得出平均收益率，这些平均收益率作为预期收益率，然后算得标准差及协方差。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He said he will force government regulators to make it tougher for oil companies to get drilling permits.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Nuclear power, for example, may be our salvation when we run out of oil--or virtually run out of oil-- it seems to be coming up over the next several decades-- we're going to have to do that, we're going to need nuclear power.

比如说核能,在石油资源枯竭,或快要枯竭的时候,也许再过几十年,这一天就会来临,核能可能成为我们的救世主,那时我们就需要核能源了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Three times a day,crews take off from the Coast Guard station in Clearwater to search for oil.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

The work of patrolling Florida's waters for oil begins in the skies.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

The bill,which now goes to the Senate, would remove a $75 million limit on liability for oil spill damages and put a new tax on the industry to fund nationwide conservation projects.

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

"I'll be very honest with King Abdullah with whom I have developed a good relationship, indicating to him that we're not going to be eliminating our need for oil imports in the immediate future;

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

(Speech) Mr.Medvedev says facilities for oil and gas production, which guarantee the lion's share of Russian budget revenues, nuclear weapons, which ensure national security, as well as the country's industrial and public utility infrastructure were for the most part created by Soviet specialists.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Ida Tarbell's investigations into Standard Oil were partly responsible for later legal action by the federal government against the company.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

One method was to sell oil in one area of the country for much less than the oil was worth.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

But the oil is processed and exported -- at least for now -- from Port Sudan in the north.

VOA: special.2011.01.08

It was used for an oil well or gold mine that had almost no oil or gold in it.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

Greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide, are created in part by burning oil and coal for transportation and electricity.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

At the end of March, President Obama called for the United States to expand its offshore oil and gas exploration.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

American officials have suspended all fishing in parts of the Gulf of Mexico for at least ten days because of the huge oil spill.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

They could not sell their oil for that low a price and still make a profit.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Ms.Casey-Lefkowitz says it would carry the oil more than three thousand kilometers, crossing the central United States -- and the Ogallala -- for processing in Texas.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

What Carnegie did for the steel industry, John D.Rockefeller did for the oil industry.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Bad weather has interfered with efforts to send out boats to clean up the oil and watch for the effects on wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

He was famous for putting out dangerous oil well fires around the world.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Sharks are harvested for meat and cartilage, liver oil and,especially,for their fins.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

Sesame,cotton and sunflower seeds, for example,all contain at least fifty percent oil.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

Now, oil is trading for less than 40 dollars a barrel.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

The Tennessee senator also wants more exploration for offshore oil and natural gas, and more conservation and efficiency in electricity use.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25