After telling ourselves for so long that our tools and technology can control nature, suddenly we were face-to-face with our weakness, with our lack of control, as the oil burst out of every attempt to contain it -- "top hats," "top kills" and, most memorably, the "junk shot" -- of firing old tires and golf balls down that hole in the world.
长期以来我们告诉自己 我们的工具和技术能够控制自然， 我们突然面对 我们的弱点， 我们的缺乏控制， 随着石油泄漏， 每次进行回收的尝试 -- 带帽法，顶部封杀 和，最难忘的，垃圾弹法 -- 用废旧的轮胎和旧高尔夫球 收集泄漏孔中漏出石油