The price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark for US oil, fell as low as minus $37.63 a barrel.

美国原油期货的基准油---西得克萨斯中间基原油（WTI)）价格一度跌至每桶负37.63美元（约合人民币负266.12元）。

That's the lowest level since NYMEX opened oil futures trading in 1983.

这是自1983年纽约商品交易所开始石油期货交易以来的最低水平。

"This is off-the-charts wacky," said Stewart Glickman, an energy equity analyst at CFRA Research. "The demand shock was so massive that it's overwhelmed anything that people could have expected."

CFRA Research的能源资产分析师斯图尔特•格利克曼说：“这简直是跌破纪录了。需求冲击如此之大，远超人们的预期。”

off the charts：打破旧记录

The severe drop on Monday was driven in part by a technicality of the global oil market. Oil is traded on its future price and May futures contracts are due to expire on Tuesday. Traders were keen to offload those holdings to avoid having to take delivery of the oil and incur storage costs.

本周一（4月20日）的原油期货价格大幅下跌在一定程度上是由全球石油市场的技术性因素造成的。石油以期货价格交易，5月份的期货合约将于本周二到期。交易员们急于抛出这些合约，以避免不得不接受石油的交割，并产生储存成本。

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