The pollution-control team is at the scene and is due to start sucking up oil any time now.

这个污染控制小组已在现场，随时可以开始抽油。

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The US dollar went through a difficult time, in company with the oil market.

美元与石油市场同时经历了艰难时期。

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Oil exploitation takes a long time.

石油开采需要很长时间。

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President Obama also spoke about the difficult time people in the Gulf area were going through as a result of the oil spill.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

At the time, Kinley was the leader in putting out fires in oil wells.

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At that time, the solar energy business was such that it could not compete with oil and gas and oil.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

Investor frustration regarding the inability of most crude oil ETFs to successfully track the spot price of oil over time is well documented.

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Of course that should be done but to date there is no evidence that we will be able to generate enough energy from these sources to replace oil any time in the near future.

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Mr. YERGIN: This is the fifth time that we've run out of oil, and the last time we ran out of oil was in the 1970s, and since then, we've increased production by about 60 percent.

NPR: Oil Prices Likely to Stay High Next Year