We all have only our one cruse of energy given us to make the best of.

我们都只有一瓶能量可以让我们充分利用。

But I have myself known people who believed, without any visible astonishment, that their house possessed the prophet's never-failing cruse of oil.

但我自己认识一些人，他们毫不惊讶地相信，他们的房子里有先知永不枯竭的油瓶。