What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile.

-- James Hansen 詹姆斯·汉森

使油砂特别令人讨厌的是，你最终得到的能源，单位二氧化碳，是可怜的。这相当于在你的汽车里烧煤。

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If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.

如果要使用煤炭，唯一的反应——因为煤炭是所有燃料中最脏的——是我们必须学会如何进行碳捕获和储存，我们必须学会如何快速地在商业规模上实现这一点。

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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

例如，上帝就像一个没有胡须，戴着一顶丝棉帽的人向我祈求;神圣是一种燃烧的、令人生畏的东西，一种与火有关的东西，而一天的形状是一个长方形的盒子。

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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

有一种品质是一个人必须拥有的，那就是明确的目标，知道自己想要什么，以及拥有它的强烈愿望。

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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

对船舶经纪人来说，煤是黑金。

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