They were designed to go fast and consumed a lot of fuel.

它们需要快速行驶，耗油量很大。

Better technology to make cars less gas-guzzling, so using less fuel, which causes less pollution and they need to be smaller too.

运用更高技术使汽车耗油量降低——使用低油耗汽车，能减少对环境污染，同时也需要缩小车身。

This causes drag, which slows the affected craft and increases its fuel consumption.

成阻力，降低了受影响船只速度，增加了其耗油量。

Sounds like a good car! How many miles to the gallon?

听起来车不错！耗油量多少？

There's other cars that we built that are fairly good on the fuel consumption.

我们制作其他车耗油量很不错。。

And that's why some behavioral scientists think gallons per mile is a better metric.

也是一些行为学科学家所认为每公耗油量才是更好测量标准。

When advertising a new car's efficiency, for example, it is more convincing to talk about the number of extra miles per gallon it does, rather than the equivalent percentage fall in fuel consumption.

比如，在宣传新车效率时，引用每加仑汽油多跑英数要比引用减少耗油量比值要更有说服力。

For example, as the electric car becomes more efficient, affordable and eco-friendly, it'll be a more popular choice amongst consumers, while big gas guzzlers will be left on the lot.

例如，随着电动汽车开始变得越来越高效，价格便宜且污染小，它成为大多数消费者普遍选择，而不去购买那些耗油量大汽车。

When you were in university, did you have a gas guzzler or did you drive another type of more fuel-efficient car?

在大学期间，你是开那种耗油量大车，还是选择了一款更省油车型呢？

Oh, a gas guzzler is a vehicle that uses up a lot of gas and often more gas than the average vehicle.

哦，“油老虎”指是那种耗油量很大，通常比普通车辆更费油汽车。

Of course, you want to try to buy a vehicle that is more fuel-efficient and try to stay away from gas guzzlers.

当然，你希望尽量购买燃油效率更高车辆，并尽量避免选择那些耗油量大车型。

She was a gas guzzler in the sense she used a lot of fuel.

她是个油老虎，意思是她耗油量很大。

It drinks, if you will, a lot of gas.

它耗油量很大。

An efficient car is a car that uses less fuel.

一辆高效汽车是指耗油量较少汽车。

These gas guzzlers churn out 5 percent of the nation's toxic air pollution, and anyone standing near one is inhaling that good stuff straight into their lungs.

些耗油量大汽车产生了全国 5% 有毒空气污染，任何站在它们附近人都将些好东西直接吸入肺部。

And these jets use a heck of a lot of oil-I mean it takes a ton of oil, a ton of petrol before one of these big jets even takes off.

些喷气式飞机耗油量很大——我意思是，在一架大型喷气式飞机起飞之前，需要一吨油，一吨汽油。

If you have bad gas mileage, we would say you have a gas guzzler.

如果你燃油效率很低，我们就说你有一辆耗油量大汽车。

You have to be rich to run this car as it uses a lot of petrol.

驾驶辆车需要财力雄厚，因为它耗油量很大。

So, the most common expression to describe a big car that uses a lot of gas is a " gas guzzler." Interestingly enough, there really isn't a common term for the opposite kind of car.

。 因此，描述耗油量大大型汽车最常见表达方式是“油耗高汽车”有趣是，对于相反类型汽车， 确实没有通用术语。

A lot of cars nowadays are very large and use a large amount of gasoline, or " gas" as we call it here.

如今很多车都很大， 而且耗油量也很大，我们称其为“汽油” 。