Suttles说BP的官方估计是建立在从桶中流出来可见的原油上的，还有“多少油是浮在海的表面的”。

Suttles said BP's official estimate is based on the visual observation of oil flowing from the barrel, and "how much oil is on top of the sea".

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花朵、浪漫不过是浮在生活表面的浅浅点缀，在它们的下面才是我们真正的生活。

Flowers, but life is a romantic floating in the shallow surface of the decorative, below them is our real life.

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这就意味着我们的鼻子局限于察觉那些浮在空气中的气味，而对粘在物体表面的气味却遗漏了。

This means that our noses are limited to perceiving those smells which float through the air, missing the majority of smells which stick to surfaces.

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