How Gulf Oil Giants Are Buying Global Power

national pride: 국민적 자부심
You think about the feeling that you get when you watch the Olympics or something like that, that feeling of national pride.

dwarf: 소형의
And collectively, they dwarf the others.

plummet: 급락하다 
But over the last decade, the cost of clean energy alternatives to oil has plummeted.

agenda: 의제
Sports is one of the things that has really sort of risen up the agenda, probably over the last sort of 10 to 15 years.

qualitative: 질적인 
quantitative: 양적인 
In a lot of cases, the soft power, the diplomacy, the more qualitative aspects versus the quantitative aspects, that ends up being far more powerful and then anything that, you know, money could really buy.

scrutiny: 정밀 조사
It’ll surprise few people that this has all drawn scrutiny and criticism.