目前，中国是世界第二大石油市场，规模较日本高出40%。 在不到15年的时间里，中国已经从一个石油自给自足的国家，转变为一个全部供应的半数需要进口的国家。

Its oil market is now the second largest in the world – 40 per cent larger than Japan's – and it has gone in less than 15 years from self sufficiency to importing half its total supply.

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了解和帮助他人，使其自给自足：在你的居住地工作，即使这意味着你要创立新的、地方性的、以社区为基础的企业，因此你不必依赖于汽车和石油。

Learn and help others become self-sufficient: Work where you live, even if that means creating new, local, community-based enterprises, so you're not dependent on cars and oil.

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上天赋予的灿烂阳光、壮观大河提供的充足水源，以及几近自给自足的石油，这些确实都令巴西的能源潜力巨大。

Blessed with sunshine, watered by huge rivers and close to self-sufficiency in oil, Brazil's energy potential is indeed enormous.

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