From the Middle East the Chinese acquired a blue pigment—a purified form of cobalt oxide unobtainable at that time in China—that contained only a low level of manganese.

中国人从中东获得了一种蓝色颜料，这是一种当时在中国很难得到的纯净的氧化钴，这种颜料只含有少量的锰。

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The news from the Middle East was not all bad.

中东的消息不是都那么糟。

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India is set on diversifying supply away from the Middle East.

印度计划将中东以外的石油供应来源多样化。

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"Every time I come back from the Middle East, my American friends would say, 'What were you doing in the M.E.?'

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Which would of course cripple the global economy, because as much as we want to win our independence from oil, most of our oil were still coming from the Middle East.

这将导致世界经济瘫痪，虽然我们一直竭力发掘本国石油资源，我们绝大部分的石油,仍然来自中东。

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Alex Vatanka from the Middle East Institute doubts that.

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Where does New Delhi think its oil comes from (about 70%, mainly from the Middle East)?

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People are coming from the Middle East, eastern Europe, Africa, to learn from us.

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Today, most batteries come from Asia and most oil comes from the Middle East.

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