But there could be a silver lining: the rest of the world could at long last deal with its vulnerability to oil and the Middle East.

但是不幸中还有一线希望：到最后，世界其他地区不得不解决在石油和中东动荡面前的脆弱。

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As for the prospects of reducing the importance of the Middle East to global oil supplies, forget it.

至于减少中东在世界石油供给重要性的前景，还是忘记它吧。

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Continuing unrest around the Middle East threatens to disrupt oil supplies even as global recovery boosts petroleum demand.

如今全球经济复苏，石油需求猛增，但是恰逢此时中东不断动乱，石油供应受到威胁。

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Middle east oil is critical to the rise of India and China, and in that sense it's very much part of the economic process.

中东石油,对于中印的崛起非常关键，因此它是东南亚经济发展的,重大保障。

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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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