精英逆袭,达人战胜专家的年代_BEC初级作文

精英逆袭,达人战胜专家的年代

Harold Hamm grew up dirt-poor in a tiny town in Oklahoma. He began school around Christmas-time each year, once it became too cold to pick cotton, and he started his career raking out oil tanks. Over the past six years, Mr. Hamm and his company have discovered so much oil in North Dakota that he is now worth $14 billion. Aubrey McClendon and Tom Ward of Oklahoma were land-leasing specialists; they managed to build the nation's second-largest gas producer by leading the charge into shale fields. Charif Souki, a Lebanese immigrant and former restaurateur who knew more about fajitas than fracking, today runs Cheniere Energy, a Houston-based company that is on track to become the first to export gas from the contiguous U.S.

哈罗德?哈姆(Harold Hamm)成长于俄克拉荷马州(一个小镇，家里穷得叮当响。他每年从诞节前后开始上学，因为这时候天冷得不能摘棉花了。哈姆最初做的是清理油罐的工作。在过去六年里，哈姆和他的公司在北达科他州发现了非常多的石油，现在他的身价高达140亿美元。俄克拉荷马州的奥布雷?麦克伦登(Aubrey McClendon)和汤姆?沃德(Tom Ward)是从事土地租赁的专业人士；作为页岩气领域的先行者，他们成功地建起了美国第二大天然气生产商。相比水力压裂，黎巴嫩移民、曾为餐馆老板的谢里夫?苏基(Charif Souki)更熟悉墨西哥烤肉，但如今他经营总部位于休斯敦的公司Cheniere Energy，该公司有望成为第一家从美国本土出口天然气的公司。