Bigger cars tend to be gas guzzlers, and I wanted a bigger car.

现在耗油量大的汽车一定卖不动了吧？

Yu is confident that, in the long run, it is the gas guzzlers that will be forced to give way.

不过俞教授相信从长远来看，燃油的车辆终将会被迫给电动车让路。

Leave it to the gas guzzlers of NASCAR to pull off building one of the United States' largest alt-energy installations.

有油老虎之称的NASCAR赢得建造美国最大的能源安装之一的项目。

With lower prices, it seems people are going back to buying gas guzzlers, no doubt helped by the generous terms dealers are offering.

随着价格下降，人们却似乎回到购买大排量，毫无疑问，由经销商提供优厚的条件帮助的。

Customers have been flocking the car dealers to get the 4500 dollars back for trading in gas guzzlers for more fuel-efficient vehicles.

客户蜂拥至汽车经销商那里用耗油的旧车换取4500美元再换购新车。

Plug-in electric hybrids give off less exhaust than gas guzzlers. And when they're running on battery power, they generate no fumes at all.

插电式混合动力汽车比单纯汽油动力汽车的废气排放量更少，尤其是当他们使用电源运行时，完全不会产生废气。

Mostly flat, was the answer; innumerable small towns of identical clapboard houses, rust-spotted gas guzzlers and monster pickups in the yard.

答案是大多是平地，无数小城镇，一模一样的板屋，锈迹斑斑的加油机和停在院子里硕大的农夫车。

But even those planning to head to the dealer this spring to buy gas guzzlers or American-made cars could feel aftershocks from the Japanese earthquake.

即使是那些准备购买美国造汽车或者其他油老虎汽车的人，这个春天里也将感觉到日本地震的影响。

Plug-in electric hybrids give off less exhaust than gas guzzlers. And when they're running on battery power, they generate no fumes at all. But there's a catch.

插电式混合动力电动车排放的废气要比油耗大的车少，而且在使用电池能时不会产生任何浓烟。

Next to it sits a picture from the 70s with the iconic, wide-bodied gas guzzlers of the era that helped define why, to the rest of the world, everything seemed bigger in America.

旁边挂着的照片上是70年代一辆车身宽大的车，这种油老虎是那个年代的标记，这也有助于解释为什么其他国家看美国任何东西都觉得大一号。

Therefore, instead of focusing on making money by innovating around fuel efficiency, productivity and design, G.M. threw way too much energy into lobbying and maneuvering to protect its gas guzzlers.

因此，通用投入了太多精力在游说议会以保证大型车的销售上；而非通过对燃料效率、生产率、和设计进行革新来获取利润。

In the scramble to swap gas-guzzlers for smaller vehicles, residual values collapsed, leaving GM's finance arm with huge losses on cars returned after lease.

在将耗油量大的汽车换成小型车的争夺中，剩余价值大幅缩水，使得通用汽车的金融部门在汽车租赁后的退货上蒙受巨大损失。

Since petrol prices first rose above $3 a gallon in 2005 Detroit has been trying to reconquer the modest car market instead of relying on sales of expensive, high-margin SUVs and other gas-guzzlers.

自从汽油价格于2005年首次超过3美元/加仑以来，底特律市试图再度夺回中档汽车市场，而非依靠昂贵、高利润的SUV越野车和其他油老虎。

Car companies are also keen to reorganise their product lines to include electric, hybrid and smaller cars though they are less-profitable than gas-guzzlers.

汽车制造厂也希望重新认识他们的产品线，包括电的，混合动力和小汽车，尽管他们和现在的汽车相比(把现在的汽车比喻成油老虎)的利润会有所减少。

Success on this is vital if Ford is to adapt to consumers' shift in tastes away from big gas-guzzlers toward smaller cars on which the profit margins are slender.

如果福特能顺应消费者的口味，从生产大排量高油耗的车转变成利润率较小的微型车，那对福特来说是至为关键的。

Even Mercedes and BMW make small cars that will help offset their gas-guzzlers when the new rules, based on fleet-average emissions, come into force.

但就即使是梅塞德思和宝马这样的品牌也得依靠小车型来应对基于平均排放量而实行的新温室气体排放法的制约。

The reason that American cars are such gas-guzzlers is not that their engines have got worse but that the cars themselves have got heavier.

美国汽车耗油量大的原因并不在于引擎耗油，而是因为汽车本身变重了。

Extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply toilet roll made from virgin forest causes more damage than gas-guzzlers, fast food or McMansions, say campaigners.

用原木加工的超软，带软垫的，且多层的卫生纸比那些油高耗油汽车，快餐或者美式大房子造成的破坏还要大。

General Motors (GM) announced a 30% fall in car sales in May, compared with a year earlier, as high fuel prices prompted Americans to shun its gas-guzzlers for smaller, more frugal vehicles.

通用汽车宣布5月汽车销售量与上年同期相比下降30%，原因在于高油价促使美国人放弃购买耗油量大的车型，转而购买体型较小且更经济的车型。