Oil wealth yanked a dirt-poor desert country into modernity but distorted relationships such as that between the citizen and the state, and between effort and reward in the workplace.

石油让沙特阿拉伯摆脱了极度贫困状态，将它带进现代世界，不过也扭曲了国民与国家的关系以及工作的劳酬关系。

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Oil shale (or kukersite) and limestone deposits, along with forests which cover 47% of the land, play key economic roles in this generally resource-poor country.

沿着林区，覆盖整个陆地面积47%的油页岩(位于kukersite)和石灰岩矿藏在这个资源匮乏的国家的经济中扮演了重要的角色。

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Not every country in Africa has oil wealth like Libya or Nigeria. Several African countries are so dirt poor that their people are starving skeletons.

并不是所有的非洲国家都像利比亚和尼日利亚那样有着丰富的石油资源。一些非洲国家面临着贫穷，饥饿，那里的人可是枯瘦如柴。

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In an oil-poor country where tourism is the second-largest foreign exchange earner (after phosphate exports) that generates some 20% of GDP, passage of any anti-alcohol measure could cause a net loss of more than 300, 000 jobs.

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