在20世纪40年代早期，农民们沐浴在以化学品为基础的集约农业的光辉下，贪心地把杀虫剂当作增加作物产量的一种可靠方法。
In the early 1940s, basking in the glory of chemical-based intensive agriculture, the farmers avidly took to pesticides as a sure measure to boost crop yield.
产量的扩张看起来已经损害了丰田令人羡慕的可靠性记录。
The pursuit of volume seems to have dented the company’s enviable record for reliability.
所以在IEA的新报告中提出的石油产量在全球资源“到2030年降至一半左右”时会保持稳定的假设看起来是不可靠的。
So the assumption in the IEA's new report, that oil production will hold steady when the global resource has fallen "to around one half by 2030" looks unsafe.
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