Lemon juice figured not only in warding off carsickness but also in making castor oil less offensive, or so my mother thought.
柠檬汁不但用来抵御晕车，而且也用来降低蓖麻油的攻击性，至少我母亲是这样想的。
Making the switch to corn ethanol will help the American economy because it will make the United States less dependent on foreign oil.
转向玉米乙醇将有助于美国经济，因为它将使美国减少对外国石油的依赖。
In January of last year the Moviemania chain of movie theaters started propping its popcorn in canola oil, instead of the less healthful coconut oil that it had been using until then.
去年1月，Moviemania连锁影院开始用菜籽油代替之前一直使用的不太健康的椰子油来制作爆米花。
Both oil and gas are less dense than water, so they generally tend to rise upward through water-saturated rock and sediment.
石油和天然气的密度都比水小，所以二者通常会浮在被水浸泡的岩石和沉积物的表层。
When people began to realise that there was not enough oil on the earth, they asked car makers to produce more efficient and less polluting cars.
当人们开始意识到地球上没有足够的石油时，他们要求汽车制造商生产能效更高、污染更少的汽车。
Non conflagate and less insitation, it is an ideal substitute for gasoline and diesel oil using for cleaning.
它不挥发且低刺激，是汽油和柴油理想的清洁替代品。
Both natural gas and biogas create emissions when burned, but far less than coal and oil do.
天然气和沼气燃烧时，都会产生二氧化碳，但是要比煤和石油少得多。
He thinks Norway should set an example by producing less oil and gas in the hope that other countries respond in equally high-minded fashion.
他认为，挪威应该减少石油与天然气的产量来树立一个榜样，以此希望其它国家也以同样高的姿态做出回应。
In recent weeks it has become clear that Europe and Japan are faring even worse than America, and so are likely to consume less oil, steel, cocoa and the like.
最近几个星期形势变得更清晰，欧洲和日本的情况比美国更糟，同样糟的还有那些可能会减少石油、钢铁、可可粉等商品消费的国家。
Dearer oil is pushing the dollar down, they claim, because oil exporters import more from Europe than America and hold less of their oil revenues in dollars.
他们认为珍贵的石油正在使美元贬值，因为石油出口国从欧洲进口商品的数量要多于美国，从而获得的美元石油收入较少。
If more money is spent on oil, then less money will be available to spend on other goods.
如果花费在石油上的钱越多，那么能花在其他商品上的钱就会越少。
Both have an interest in the security of the Gulf -but also in depending less on its oil.
他们都极其关注海湾地区的安全问题，但同时也都在削减对这一地区的石油依赖度。
By then, America, Japan and Europe will be using less oil than in 1980.
届时，美国，日本和欧洲石油消耗量将会低于1980年的水平。
In the meantime, the world's biggest oil producer, Saudi Arabia - which increased production in the summer - has already begun loading less oil on its tankers, according to global oil figures.
同时根据全球石油产量的数据显示，世界最大的石油输出国沙特阿拉伯也已经开始减少石油生产量。沙特在今年夏天曾增加过石油产量。
Oil Wells, GlassPoint's founders noticed, are far less demanding consumers in these respects.
玻璃点太阳能公司的创始人注意到，在这些方面，油井对消费者的要求要少得多。
The water would exert less pressure on the oil and gas down below, which is why it was important that 【concrete seals】 were in place to avoid any blowout.
因为海水对石油以及井下的天然气造成的压力更小，所以为避免任何喷发，及时用【海水代替泥浆】封堵井口是至关重要的。
This marks another year when water gets less attention than oil, and the coming crisis becomes more severe.
今年又将是人类关注石油的一年，而忽略了水危机。今后水危机将变得更加严峻。
In the first two months of the year, China imported nearly 40% less oil from Iran than it did during the same period last year, and bought more oil from other countries.
今年头两个月，中国从伊朗的石油进口较去年同期减少接近40%，同时从其他国家购买了更多的石油。
Europe, notably, has ploughed more investment into public transportation and taxed petrol at a much higher rate and still consumes less oil than it did when the last oil shock struck 29 years ago.
欧洲在公共交通上明显投入了更多资金，并对汽油征收更高的税率，目前它的石油消耗量低于29年前的上次石油危机期间。
In either case, NOCs produce less oil, more expensively, than they should.
而无论干涉轻重，国家石油公司的产油量都比其应产出要少，而价格却更昂贵。
BP, for example, is keen for the company to hunt for more reserves of oil and gas, to make up for BP's own less impressive record in finding oil.
举例来说，BP希望公司寻求更多的石油和天然气储备，弥补BP自身在寻找石油方面并不令人满意的记录。
The flow rate [of oil into the sea] currently stands at less than one barrel a day.
（涌入大海的原油）流量目前止步于每天一桶。
Small entrepreneur that the country needs to flourish, if its economy is to rely less on oil and gas, and its society to be stabilised by the growth of a middle class.
国家需要繁荣，假如它的经济不过于依赖石油和天然气，那么它的社会会通过中产阶级的成长更趋于稳定。而他就属于那类小企业家。
Consumers paying more for their petrol and heating oil have less to spend on other things.
消费者要为汽油及燃油付出更多，而这会减少他们在其他方面的消费。
Europe actually used less oil in 2009 than in 1980, even though its economy had grown.
尽管经济有所增长，欧洲在2009年消耗的石油实际要比1980年要少。
Rich countries use less than half as much oil as they did in 1970 for each inflation-adjusted dollar of GDP.
由通胀调整后的以美金计算GDP中，富裕国家所使用的石油还不到1970年代的一半。
Rich countries use less than half as much oil as they did in 1970 for each inflation-adjusted dollar of GDP.
由通胀调整后的以美金计算GDP中，富裕国家所使用的石油还不到1970年代的一半。
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