Xinjiang also has the country's largest coal reserves, an estimated 40 percent of the national total, and the largest natural gas reserves. Those three components form an energy hat trick that China is capitalizing on to power its cities and industries.
新疆還擁有中國最大的煤炭儲量——約佔全國總儲量的40%——以及最大的天然氣儲量。這三個要素組成了能源領域的帽子戲法，而中國正在利用它們來為城市和工業的發展提供動力。
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20141221/c21karamay/dual/
Definition of hat-trick in English:
NOUN
Three successes of the same kind within a limited period, in particular (in soccer) the scoring of three goals in a game by one player or (in cricket) the taking of three wickets by the same bowler with successive balls:he scored a hat-trickCampbell completed a brilliant hat-tricka hat-trick of victories
Origin
late 19th century: originally referring to the club presentation of a new hat (or some equivalent) to a bowler taking three wickets successively.
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