The notion is that people have failed to detect the massive changes which have happened in the ocean because they have been looking back only a relatively short time into the past.參考翻譯:這個觀點是:人們沒能夠發現已經在海洋中發生的巨大變化,因為他們僅僅回顧了很短的一段歷史。
One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand.參考翻譯:另外一個不應因油價上漲而失眠的原因是,這次不像70年代的那些上漲,這次并不是在普遍的商品價格暴漲和全球過旺的需求背景之下發生的。