The new environment secretary , owen paterson , is a fan of shale gas .

比如新的环境部长欧文帕特森，就对页岩气十分有兴趣。

Mr. paterson 's two-month selection process was needlessly drawn-out .

paterson的2个月的选举没有必要延长。

A word in season might have saved paterson from his own folly .

要是有人及时劝说，佩特森就不会干出这蠢事了。

Yet mr paterson is also a climate-change sceptic , agnostic about the extent to which global warming is man-made .

然而帕特森先生对气候变化持怀疑态度，认为全球变暖有多少人为成分是不可知的。

Paterson 's plans were far fetched , however , and the difficulties of life in central america were not something he had witnessed or researched .

然而，帕特森的计划是遥不可及的，他没有亲眼见过或者研究过中美洲困难的生活条件。