Oil prices have approached their highest level for almost ten years.
石油价格已几乎达到近十年来的最高水平。
They get caught in trees (hence the epithet "Witches' Knickers"), take hundreds of years to decompose and push up demand for oil, used to make plastics.
它们挂在枝头（由此而得“巫婆的灯笼裤”之名），需要数百年才能分解，它们助长石油需求，正是石油用于制造塑料。
The oil industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% of U.S. consumption for as long as six years.
石油业的最高储量相当于美国六年石油消耗量的10%。
In recent years, we have all been exposed to dire media reports concerning the impending demise of global coal and oil reserves.
近年来，我们都接触到有关全球煤炭和石油储备即将枯竭的可怕媒体报道。
The supply of oil can be shut off unexpectedly at any time, and in any case, the oil wells will all run dry in thrty years or so at the present rate of use.
石油供应可能会随时意外中断；不管怎样，以目前这种消费速度，只需30年左右，所有的油井都会枯竭。
Zhang did this and paid for the oil for 13 years.
张如此做了13年，并支付了13年的油钱。
We face an oil peak well before 40 years is up, making it urgent to rid our dependence on imported oil.
40年前我们面临的石油峰值仍在上升，我们急切地需要摆脱对进口石油的依赖。
The prices of all important commodities except oil declined for 100 years until 2002, by an average of 70%.
直到2002年的100年，所有重要商品（石油除外）的价格都在下跌，平均跌幅70%。
"Do you know what the price of oil will be in five years if they're not using electric cars?" Agassi asks.
阿加西问道：“如果他们不用电动汽车，你知道五年后石油的价格将是多少吗？”
Environmental workers in Brazil are fighting to contain the country's biggest oil spill in 25 years.
巴西环保人员正在努力控制本国25年来最大的原油泄漏事故。
As Francisco Blanch of Merrill Lynch puts it, they must find another Saudi Arabia's worth of oil every two years just to maintain their production at today's levels.
就像美林证券的弗朗西斯科·布朗齐说的那样，若要把产量维持在目前的水平，它们必须每两年就找到相当于另一个沙特阿拉伯的新石油储量。
The Riggis, originally from Colorado and California, had moved to work in Scotland's offshore oil industry 13 years ago, Palmer says.
帕尔默说，里吉夫妇来自美国来自科罗拉多州和加利福尼亚州，已经在苏格兰近海石油工厂工作了13年了。
The giant oil firm spent six years trying to figure out the best way to comply with the "Equator principles", an ambitious set of goals for avoiding harm to nature and indigenous people.
这个石油巨头为了符合赤道原则——一系列旨在防止损害自然以及当地居民生活的进取性基准，花了六年时间来寻找最佳解决办法。
The giant oil firm spent six years trying to figure out the best way to comply with the “Equator principles”, an ambitious set of goals for avoiding harm to nature and indigenous people.
这个石油巨头为了符合赤道原则——一系列旨在防止损害自然以及当地居民生活的进取性基准，花了六年时间来寻找最佳解决办法。
He has written and lectured widely on energy and environmental topics in recent years, arguing that oil and cars are heading for a divorce.
近年来，他在能源与环境主题上著书立作并四处演讲，论证石油和汽车将要分家。
The way oil is extracted has been unchanged for 150 years.
油的萃取方法150年里都没有改变。
Dudley has spent about 30 years in the oil industry, including a stint as CEO of TNK-BP starting in 2003.
杜德利在石油业工作了30年，在2003年开始担任秋明石油公司首席执行官。
"It is only a truly dysfunctional system that would buy into the perverse logic that the short-term answer to high gasoline prices is drilling for more oil 10 years from now, " Gore said.
“现在的环境使人们错误地相信这样一个荒谬的逻辑，那就是解决高油价的短期方法就是在挖十年的石油。”格尔说。
Conventional oil production has been flat for four years; in that sense, at least, peak oil has arrived.
4年来，传统的石油生产一直没有增长；至少在这个意义上说，石油峰值已经到来。
For about five years, global oil production has remained steady at around 85 million barrels a day.
在未来五年内，全球石油产量将继续保持在每天8500万桶左右。
This method was used in Russia and Europe 3000 years ago and they used oil, acid or water.
这种方法被使用于在3000年前的俄罗斯和欧洲，他们使用油，酸或水。
Until a few years ago, when oil wealth began to spread through the nation, life for most people was very tough.
就在几年以前，当石油财富刚开始在这个国家流淌的时侯，大多数人的生活还是非常艰难的。
Before Deepwater Horizon foundered there had not been a big leak from an offshore oil well for 40 years.
在深水地平线号出事前，那里已有40年未出现一起近海油井严重泄漏的事件。
In the next few years, several big new oil fields and refineries should come on stream.
接下来的几年，几个新的大规模油田和炼油厂将投入生产。
With conventional techniques, oil prices have to be above $50 to $60 per barrel—as they have been for several years—for oil sands to be economical.
如果使用传统的技术开采油砂资源而且要划算的话，其油价将会是在每桶50美元到60美元以上，其实过去这些年都是这个价。
The full effects of the oil spill may not be known for years.
石油泄漏的全部影响或许多年后还不能完全知道。
The full effects of the oil spill may not be known for years.
石油泄漏的全部影响或许多年后还不能完全知道。
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