President Obama says he is angry and frustrated by oil executives' response to the catastrophic spill, after a BP oil rig blew up last month off the Louisiana coast.
奥巴马总统说，上个月在路易斯安那州沿岸水域英国石油公司的一个油井平台发生爆炸事故后，石油公司主管对这次灾难性漏油事件所作的反应让他感到气愤和失望。
In the White House Rose Garden, the president told reporters the finger-pointing needs to stop.
奥巴马总统星期五在白宫玫瑰园对记者说，不能再互相指责了。
"I did not appreciate what I considered to be a ridiculous spectacle during the congressional hearings into this matter," said Obama. "You had executives of BP and Transocean and Halliburton falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else. The American people could not have been impressed with that display, and I certainly was not."
奥巴马说：“我不喜欢在国会为有关事件举行的听证会上所呈现的那种我认为是荒谬的景象。出席听证会的有英国石油公司、越洋公司和哈利伯顿公司的主管，他们相互指责，都说他人应当承担罪责。美国人民不可能对这种表现产生好感，我当然也不会。”
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"For too long, for a decade or more, there has been a cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agency that permits them to drill," he added. "It seems as if permits were too often issued based on little more than assurances of safety from the oil companies. That cannot and will not happen anymore."
奥巴马说：“有太长一段时间、有十来年或者更久，石油公司和发放钻探石油许可的联邦机构之间关系亲密，看来经常是只要石油公司提出安全保证，就会发放钻探许可。那种情况不能、也不会再次发生。”
As the president spoke, robots at the bottom of the Gulf tried to move a tube into the pipe that has pumped millions of liters of oil into the water. BP said it hoped to know within hours whether the tube had successfully diverted the oil to a tanker at the surface.
当奥巴马总统发表这番讲话时，在墨西哥湾的海底机器人正试图把一根管道插进油管中，已经有几百万公升的石油从这个油管流入海水中。英国石油公司说，希望在几小时后知道这根管道是否能把石油引到海面上的一个大油箱内。
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