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。

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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。

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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%。

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Over the years, big oil and gas companies recovered much of the easily reached supplies of gas in America.

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We can now see the price of oil going out years into the future.

现在我们就可以看得到,未来几年石油的价格

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But twenty years ago, in March of nineteen eighty-nine, the tanker ship Exxon Valdez created a huge oil spill along the Alaskan coast.

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Given their huge stockpile of national savings from the oil boom years, plus plenty of continued income despite the drop in oil prices, Kuwaitis can probably afford to go on bickering anyway.

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They would be better off had they hedged against higher oil prices years ago.

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McCain acknowledged, this week, his offshore drilling plan would not produce any additional oil for years.

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