来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：金融市场 第4集 第4集》

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  I was talking to someone at the World Economic Forum
  我曾经在世界经济论坛上
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  from a Persian Gulf country
  跟一个从波斯湾国家来的人讨论过这个问题
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  and I said,
  然后我问他
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  aren't you worried about reliance on oil?
  你们如此依赖石油 难道你们从来不担心吗
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  He said, of course we're worried on reliance,
  他回答道 我们当然很担心这点
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  so much of our GDP and of our government revenues
  我们大部分的GDP和政府收入
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  is oil-related.
  都与石油产业相关
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  We've seen the price of oil, lately,
  我们都能看到现在石油的价格
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  move all over the map. It went up to $100 recently
  一路飙升 最近达到每桶一百美元
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  and it was just as late as late 1990s
  而在上世纪九十年代末
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  that it was under $20
  每桶石油还不到二十美元
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  and people just don't know
  人们根本无法预想石油价格