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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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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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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