油价跌得很酸爽

　　2014年的夏天，国际每桶原油价格下跌了40%。由于全球原油需求放缓和新能源的增多，油价已进入近五年半以来的最低值。英国《金融时报》有文章表示，油价大跌是今年以来对全球经济最大的震动，对正常的经济运行也有很大的影响。

　　40 percent: Decline in the price of a barrel of oil from its 2014 peak this summer. Oil prices are now at their lowest levels in five and a half years due to slowing global demand and expanded alternative energy supplies. The Financial Times has called the price decline “by far the biggest shock for the global economy this year,” noting that its effects could “throw sand into the works of the usual economic relationships.”

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