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Skyrocketed to over 50 cents a liter 2 dollars a gallon, everybody
猛漲到50多美分一升2美元一加侖 大伙
Now we're the last country
我們是最后一個國家
I'm hoping someday we'll get leaders in gasoline as well as other things
我希望有一天我們能夠有汽油及其它東西的領袖
Back then we were still in the throes of the disco era
當時 我們還處在迪斯科年代
We had leisure suits the Chevy Vega the Ford Pinto
我們有休閑套裝雪佛蘭織女星福特平托
I mean everybody these were things that no designer, no engineer and especially no lawyer could be proud of
我想跟大家說的是這些絕對不是設計師 工程師 特別是律師會感到自豪的
Now we're in the depth of the most serious environmental crisis in human history
現在我們正處在人類歷史上最嚴重的環(huán)境危機之中
in that I include the most recently Ice Age because things are happening faster than ever before
這包括最近的一次冰期因為一切都比任何時候發(fā)生得更迅猛
but I believe you all can help us avoid disaster but I'm also hoping you can help us avoid another disco era
不過我相信你們所有人能夠幫助我們避免災難我也相信 你們能夠幫助我們避免另一次迪斯科年代
When my great-grandmother refused to let my grandmother go for a ride on the Wright Brothers' new flying machine in College Park Maryland
當我的曾祖母拒絕讓我祖母在馬里蘭大學帕克分校登上萊特兄弟新發(fā)明的飛行機器時
there were about one and three quarters of a billion people in the world
世界總人口大約只有17.5億
During World War II while my father worked a shovel in the Japanese Prisoner of War camp
在二戰(zhàn)時期我父親在日本戰(zhàn)俘營做勞工
and my mother was a Navy lieutenant and a cryptographer working to decipher the German enigma code
而我母親則是一位海軍上尉她的工作是破解德軍密碼
