哈里的车每加仑跑不出几里路,是真正的油老虎。
有油老虎之称的NASCAR赢得建造美国最大的能源安装之一的项目。
Leave it to the gas guzzlers of NASCAR to pull off building one of the United States' largest alt-energy installations.
可怜的俄克拉荷马州参议员TomCoburn就说了:“你要是想驾驶一辆油老虎怎么办?”
Here's forlorn Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn: "What if you want to drive a gas hog?"
即使是那些准备购买美国造汽车或者其他油老虎汽车的人,这个春天里也将感觉到日本地震的影响。
But even those planning to head to the dealer this spring to buy gas guzzlers or American-made cars could feel aftershocks from the Japanese earthquake.
我相信当我谈论这些事情的时候,人们会非常乐意倾听,因为我不是环保主义者,而是开着悍马”油老虎”。
People are very receptive when I talk about these things because I'm a Hummer driver not a tree-hugger.
伦敦卫生和热带医学学院的PhilEdwards博士说:“一个人不断走来走去就如同驾驶着一辆”油老虎“。”
Dr Phil Edwards, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: "Moving about in a heavy body is like driving in a gas guzzler."
自从汽油价格于2005年首次超过3美元/加仑以来,底特律市试图再度夺回中档汽车市场,而非依靠昂贵、高利润的SUV越野车和其他油老虎。
Since petrol prices first rose above $3 a gallon in 2005 Detroit has been trying to reconquer the modest car market instead of relying on sales of expensive, high-margin SUVs and other gas-guzzlers.
汽车制造厂也希望重新认识他们的产品线,包括电的,混合动力和小汽车,尽管他们和现在的汽车相比(把现在的汽车比喻成油老虎)的利润会有所减少。
Car companies are also keen to reorganise their product lines to include electric, hybrid and smaller cars though they are less-profitable than gas-guzzlers.
旁边挂着的照片上是70年代一辆车身宽大的车,这种油老虎是那个年代的标记,这也有助于解释为什么其他国家看美国任何东西都觉得大一号。
Next to it sits a picture from the 70s with the iconic, wide-bodied gas guzzlers of the era that helped define why, to the rest of the world, everything seemed bigger in America.
旁边挂着的照片上是70年代一辆车身宽大的车,这种油老虎是那个年代的标记,这也有助于解释为什么其他国家看美国任何东西都觉得大一号。
Next to it sits a picture from the 70s with the iconic, wide-bodied gas guzzlers of the era that helped define why, to the rest of the world, everything seemed bigger in America.
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