We stop at the mouth of an inlet where an oil boom should have been set.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

I set up a theoretical framework here ... and I wanted to give you-- I mentioned oil because it seems to make it, to me, so clear what we're talking about here.

我建立了个理论框架,然后我想讲给你们听-,我之前提到石油是因为它适用于这个框架，非常清晰阐述我们所谈到的内容。

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BP's losses for the past quarter amount to some $17 billion, due to having to set aside more than $32 billion for costs linked to the oil spill off the U.S.coast in the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27