More than eighty thousand barrels of crude oil from the spill severely damaged over sixty kilometers of coastline.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

It's the problem that sometimes people knock over an oil lamp in their home and they burn their own house down.

有时候会出现这种问题,一个人把自己家里的油灯弄翻了,然后把自己的房子点着了

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It's a huge amount of money that they're managing, but I was trying to convince them that they should do something to manage their oil risks because they're way over-invested in oil.

他们管理着一大笔钱，不过我试图说服他们,采取一些措施来应对他们手里石油的风险,因为他们过于侧重在石油上的投资。

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Attention turned to Washington this week over the continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

We've seen the price of oil, lately, move all over the map. It went up to $100 recently and it was just as late as late 1990s that it was under $20 and people just don't know where it's going to go.

我们都能看到现在石油的价格，一路飙升，最近达到每桶一百美元,而在上世纪九十年代末,每桶石油还不到二十美元0,人们根本无法预想石油价格,还会飙升到什么地步。

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"If it gets on land, will they make us leave?" "If we have a hurricane and the oil washes over the land, they will condemn it.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

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

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Now,BP faces growing political pressure over the worst oil spill in American history.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

Crews then turned to placing a cap over the pipe -- not to stop it, but to direct at least some of the oil to ships on the surface.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

The Iraqi parliament,until now, has failed in attempts to cobble together a bill over oil revenues that would satisfy both Kurds and Arabs.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

Tensions between the Kurds and the central government in Baghdad over oil revenues and the disputed city of Kirkuk continue to worry U.S.officials.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

The Russian national budget relies heavily on taxes from the sale of oil and other natural resources, and oil prices have dropped sharply over the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

The secretary reportedly has been trying to mediate between Kurdish leaders and the central government in Baghdad, over a thorny territorial dispute over the oil-rich region of Kirkuk.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

But could find none. "Over time oil does dissipate and can get broken down from bacteria and other organisms in the water, but still they are putting certain dispersants on the oil that makes it sink down to the bottom."

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

"We know that surface use of dispersants decreases the environmental risk to shorelines and organisms at the surface and we know that dispersants break down over weeks rather than remaining for several years as untreated oil might."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

"There is a realization at the end of the day that despite all the profits that Russia got from its sale of oil and gas over the last 10 years, that unless it modernizes its economy and reforms it, it will be a declining power."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18