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Oprah: You are a very good reporter.

Leo: Thank you very much.

Oprah: Because in, in the earlier show, when you're asking a guy about the hybrid¹ costs, how you know you are good. When I as a viewer, I'm watching, and I'm thinking of the question and then the question comes out of your mouth. It's really good.

Leo:Well, thank you.

Oprah: So, so when you were doing that, were you nervous doing that?

Leo: No. I wasn't nervous as, as I was on the show,that's....

Oprah: But as I was saying to you backstage, you know about it, I don't know about it. I'm just getting educated about it, because I'm like you guys that reading, er, global warming, ok, the temperature's gonna go up. Ok, they know, go to a cooler place. But now I feel a sense of responsibility, anybody else, today, feel that way, a sense of responsibility? Yes.

An identified woman: Well, I just have a question on a hybrid. Is it more expensive to, you know, get that type of car?

Leo: it is~it is more expensive. But you know,the~ the truth of the matter is, there're, there was an option in the curb² that we showed earlier that if you just get a car that gets better miles per gallon, you are, you are essentially³ doing a great deed as well. You don't have to go for the hybrid vehicle. It's about the miles per gallon, the emissions⁴ that will release in the atmosphere, you know, being really concerned about...

Oprah: So what is a hybrid, what's a hybrid cost?

An Identified man: It's... Well, actually it costs a couple of thousand dollars more. But the government gives a tax rebate⁵, which eliminates most of the difference and then you are gonna save even more on using less gasoline in future years.

An identified woman: In the long run, you're, gonna use less gasoline to save money.

Oprah: In the long run, it's like a light bulb.

An identified woman: It's like a light bulb

Oprah: like a light bulb.

An Identified man: Think ahead.

Oprah: Yeah, and so do you think will be a hybrid generation?

An Identified man: Eh,I, look! There's more demand for hybrids⁶ right now. They can't produce the cars fast enough, so I think there will be a lot of hybrids for, at least a decade, after that, maybe they'll come up with something even better.

Oprah: And then, probably the prices will go down also, that....

An Identified man: Prices will go down.

Leo: And we need these consumers really endorse⁷ these technologies and demand that car companies give us these, especially American car companies, 'cause like I said the Japanese are away ahead of the curve here.

Oprah: Why is that, as you said, use that figure, 5%, we are 5%, and use 25%. Why is that?

An Identified man: We are rich. We have a lot of money, and traditionally, that gets spent on making life easy, easier on those amenities⁸, like a lot of lighting⁹, big houses, big cars so you can go wherever you want, take whatever you want with you. Those all have taken a lot of energy. Now we need to focus on how we can do. Most of that also, by using less energy and of course, smart, technologically¹⁰ it can't be done. That's what this light-bulb shows.

Oprah: Ok.

Leo: And it's not just us, you know, it's up to our political leaders in the future, they, you know, create new ways to, you know, make energy for our homes and new technologies as far as cars are concerned, we need to really vote for the right people and support the right organizations. So we are... The demand, the supply can generalize....

Oprah: I think you are right. cause there's really just so much we can do. I mean we are gonna, I'm gonna get the bulb today. Somebody's gonna get performing. But ah,I'm gonna get, we're gonna, we can get the bulbs; we can get the cars; we can do whatever we can, but in the end, if your whole country is dependent upon oil, what, we can't, we don't have anything to do with that. Correct?

An Identified man: Well, you know, if everybody went out and got that high fuel economy car, you could affect it. And what's more, the price of oil is up right now; the price of gas is very high. The one thing that people can do to try to moderate those~those pricing increases,to buy high fuel economy cars, cause then it has used less. But in addition, it reduces demand, and that can bring the price right back down.

1 hybrid   

n.(动，植）杂种，混合物

参考例句：

• That is a hybrid perpetual rose.那是一株杂交的四季开花的蔷薇。
• The hybrid was tall,handsome,and intelligent.那混血儿高大、英俊、又聪明。

2 curb   

n.场外证券市场，场外交易；vt.制止，抑制

参考例句：

• I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
• You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。

3 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

4 emissions   

排放物( emission的名词复数 )； 散发物（尤指气体）

参考例句：

• Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
• Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。

5 rebate   

v./n.折扣，回扣，退款；vt.给...回扣，给...打折扣

参考例句：

• You can claim a rebate on your tax.你可以要求退回部分税款。
• Customers are to benefit from a rebate on their electricity bills.顾客将从他们的电费退费中得到实惠。

6 hybrids   

n.杂交生成的生物体( hybrid的名词复数 )；杂交植物（或动物）；杂种；（不同事物的）混合物

参考例句：

• All these brightly coloured hybrids are so lovely in the garden. 花园里所有这些色彩鲜艳的杂交花真美丽。 来自辞典例句
• The notion that interspecific hybrids are rare is ill-founded. 有一种看法认为种间杂种是罕见的，这种看法是无根据的。 来自辞典例句

7 endorse   

vt.(支票、汇票等)背书，背署；批注；同意

参考例句：

• No one is foolish enough to endorse it.没有哪个人会傻得赞成它。
• I fully endorse your opinions on this subject.我完全拥护你对此课题的主张。

8 amenities   

n.令人愉快的事物；礼仪；礼节；便利设施；礼仪( amenity的名词复数 )；便利设施；（环境等的）舒适；（性情等的）愉快

参考例句：

• The campsite is close to all local amenities. 营地紧靠当地所有的便利设施。
• Parks and a theatre are just some of the town's local amenities. 公园和戏院只是市镇娱乐设施的一部分。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 lighting   

n.照明，光线的明暗，舞台灯光

参考例句：

• The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
• The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。

10 technologically   

ad.技术上地

参考例句：

• Shanghai is a technologically advanced city. 上海是中国的一个技术先进的城市。
• Many senior managers are technologically illiterate. 许多高级经理都对技术知之甚少。