THE old, sad, Jewish joke about Moses taking a wrong turn and ending up in a corner of the Middle East without any oil can at last be discarded.
犹太人关于摩西有一个古老又悲哀的笑话是这样讲的,摩西掉错了头,结果来到了中东角上,这时候他没有一滴可被抛弃的油。
America has revived its interest in Africa: it wants to take 25% of its oil supply from there to decrease its dependence on the Middle East.
美国重获其在非洲的利益:他们想要在非洲获得25%的原油供给,以降低他们对中东的依赖性。
And everyone assumed and I think can still justify that we are in the Middle east with our high ideals, at least partly, because we are afraid of being deprived the oil that runs our industries.
每个人都假设,我还是觉得,中东有非常远大的理想,至少一部分理想是远大的,因为我们害怕支撑我们,工业的石油被剥夺。
But the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the reliance on Middle East imports and the threat of global warming are reminders that oil is also a pressing worry.
但是,墨西哥海湾的漏油,对中东石油进口的依赖和全球变暖的威胁都在提醒我们石油同样令人担忧。
The Food and Agriculture Organisation is warning that costs could spiral even further if unrest in Libya and the Middle East keeps driving up the price of oil.
粮农组织警告称,如果利比亚和中东的动荡继续推动石油价格上涨,粮食价格还会进一步攀升。
But the spill in the Gulf of Mexico the reliance on Middle East imports and the threat of global warming are reminders that oil is also a pressing worry.
但是,墨西哥海湾的漏油,对中东石油进口的依赖和全球变暖的威胁都在提醒我们石油同样令人担忧。
Even in the Middle East, where oil is relatively easy to extract, it will be harder to get out of the ground.
即便是在石油相对容易提炼的中东,从地下开采石油也比以前难了。
I think we will reach peak oil demand in the middle of the next decade.
我认为我们将于本世纪20年代中期达到石油需求极限。
In a study for the Carnegie Middle East Centre, Ibrahim Saif, an economist, notes that the long boom in oil prices which began in 2002 undid many of the good intentions of the Gulf states.
在卡内基中东研究中心的一项研究中,经济学家IbrahimSaif指出,自2002年起就一直增长的油价减弱了海湾国家的良好意图。
Khartoum is not only awash in its own oil money, but is also mopping up some of the surplus petrodollars of the Middle East.
喀土穆满地留油、金元四溢,不仅如此,还将中东过剩的“油元”(petrodollars)据为己有。
The modern history of oil started in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.
石油的现代史开始于18世纪中叶。
The Middle East is another boom market turned troubled. Civil war in Syria and plunging oil prices have hurt the confidence and buying power of countries like Kuwait.
中东是另外一个原本生机勃勃、现在却遇到麻烦的市场。叙利亚内战和暴跌的油价损害了科威特等国家的商业信心和购买力。
Everybody knows Americans burn a lot of oil, but is there a special oil that they burn in the middle of the night?
大家都知道美国人要烧掉很多油,但是这里是有一种专门在晚上烧的油么?
He can be best used at the start of a new area, so try to save up a diamond so he can point out an oil-rich area in the middle of nowhere.
他可以用在新的地区开始,所以尽量节省钻石所以他可以指出在何处的一个石油资源丰富的地区。
Oil is the vital lifeline of the national economy in many middle eastern countries.
石油是许多中东国家国民经济的主要命脉。
Whether the recent rise in oil price is temporary or it's a sustained long-term trend, this will depend on the outcome of the Middle East conflict and the pace of global recovery.
近期的油价上涨是暂时现象还是长期趋势,将取决于中东冲突的结果和全球经济复苏的步伐。
The following examples of oil and gas fields in distributary and delta- fringe sand bodies range in age from late paleozoic to middle cenozoic.
下面所列举的是分布于分流和三角洲前绿砂体的油气田的例子,在地质时代上从晚古生代至中新生代。
The cooling method of nature oil circulation is not only widely used in small-middle type power transformer, but also used in large type power transformer with low load and low ambient temperature.
自然油循环的冷却方式不仅广泛应用于电力网中的中小型电力变压器,也会在在大型电力变压器低负荷和低环境温度时应用。
We Americans can well understand that outcome, having seen how vulnerable we are to instability in oil-exporting countries of the Middle East .
我们美国人可以很好的理解这种结果,看看我们何等脆弱,不稳定在石油出口国的中东。
We Americans can well understand that outcome, having seen how vulnerable we are to instability in oil-exporting countries of the Middle East .
我们美国人可以很好的理解这种结果,看看我们何等脆弱,不稳定在石油出口国的中东。
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