In the 1970s, when it appeared that the price of energy would never retreat, our economy was soaring, and then in the early 1980s, it cratered quickly.
二十世纪七十年代，当能源的价格 不再下跌的时候， 我们的经济飞速发展， 而后来在二十世纪八十年代早期，它迅速地崩溃。