Yergin starts by reminding us of energy’s centrality to the modern age.
耶金开篇就提醒读者能量对当今世界的重要性。
The best translation of “mottainai, ” Mr. Yergin writes, is “too precious to waste.”
尤金写道：“对这个词最好的释意，也许是，太过珍惜而不忍浪费。”
Yergin, the founder of a leading energy consulting firm, is the author of several acclaimed books, most notably “The Prize, ” a monumental history of oil from its discovery to 1990.
耶金是一家领先能源咨询公司的创建人，写过几本广受赞誉的书，其中《石油风云》最为著名。这是一部关于石油的鸿篇巨制，讲述石油从被发现到1990年的历史。
DANIEL YERGIN: It's breathtaking what's happened in the last 20 years or less.
丹尼尔·尤金(Daniel Yergin)：过去不到20年的时间里发生的事情是令人震惊的。
DANIEL YERGIN: This declaration by Nixon horrified his conservative supporters.
丹尼尔·尤金：尼克松如此宣称令他的保守派支持者觉得震惊。
DANIEL YERGIN: Russia has changed a lot since the loans-for-shares deal of the mid-90s.
丹尼尔·尤金(Daniel Yergin)：自从90年代中期的贷款换股权交易后，俄罗斯改变了许多。
DANIEL YERGIN: He started to allow a certain amount of private enterprise, but it was really a very uneven process.
丹尼尔·尤金(Daniel Yergin)：他开始允许一部分私有企业存在，但这确实是一条不平坦的过程。
DANIEL YERGIN: It was only when Hayek was a very old man that his ideas began to prevail and the world began to change.
丹尼尔·尤金：直到哈耶克到了耄耋之年他的思想才开始流行，而世界也开始改变了。
DANIEL YERGIN: of all the cases of shock therapy around the world, that in Poland worked just about the best. It really got the economy going.
丹尼尔·尤金(Daniel Yergin)：在全世界休克疗法的案例中，波兰的休克疗法效果最好。它确实使波兰的经济步入了轨道。
DANIEL YERGIN: By the 1970s and '80s, it was becoming clear to the better informed that the Soviet system really wasn't working, but they couldn't really talk about it publicly.
丹尼尔·尤金(Daniel Yergin)：到70年代和80年代，对那些消息比较灵通的人来说已经很清楚了，苏联的体制真的无法运转，但是人们不能公开讨论。
DANIEL YERGIN: By the 1970s and '80s, it was becoming clear to the better informed that the Soviet system really wasn't working, but they couldn't really talk about it publicly.
丹尼尔·尤金(Daniel Yergin)：到70年代和80年代，对那些消息比较灵通的人来说已经很清楚了，苏联的体制真的无法运转，但是人们不能公开讨论。
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