The skull is cetacean-like but its jawbones lack the enlarged space that is filled with fat or oil and used for receiving underwater sound in modern whales.
它的头骨与鲸类相似，但它的下颚骨没有现代鲸鱼用来接收水下声音的、充满脂肪或油脂的扩充空间。
Russia's atrocities in Chechnya go back to the 19th century, when the diminutive but oil-rich region was annexed to the Czarist Empire after a bloody campaign of colonization.
俄罗斯在车臣的暴行可以追溯到19世纪，在一场血腥的殖民运动之后，这个面积小但石油丰富的地区被并入了沙皇帝国。
But Brazil's probably in the lead as far as biofuels are concerned—they've got to the point where they don't need to import any oil now.
但就生物燃料而言，巴西可能处于领先地位，因为他们现在根本无需进口石油。
But then someone found oil in Texas.
不过有人在得克萨斯发现了石油。
Today, not everything is still above water and only a third of the wells still work, but Oil Rocks still pumps out more than half of the oil in Azerbaijan.
如今岛上有好多建筑已经沉入水下，只有三分之一的油井还在运转，但是“石油之岩”依旧产出了阿塞拜疆一半以上的石油。
Both have an interest in the security of the Gulf -but also in depending less on its oil.
他们都极其关注海湾地区的安全问题，但同时也都在削减对这一地区的石油依赖度。
An obvious compromise would be to keep the cap on, but allow some of the oil in the well to flow out into the containment systems as it was doing beforehand.
显然，要使井口处于打开状态，可能要使用折中方案，但是允许井里的部分石油像先前那样流入密封系统。
Over the past 20 years, he points out, income per head has grown in countries with private oil industries, but has shrunk in those with nationalised ones.
他指出，过去20年里，私营石油企业的人均收入在不断增加，而在那些国有公司里却不断下降。
Global oil demand will start growing again in 2010, but only slowly.
2010年，全球石油需求将再度开始增长，但速度缓慢。
But Germany will join the rest of Europe in fretting about oil and the euro.
不过德国也即将加入对欧元和石油忧心重重的欧洲其他国家的队列。
But the GSCI, which has a heavy weighting in oil, is showing a loss this year.
但是高盛商品指数，由于石油在其中所占的巨大权重，今年也显示出下跌趋势。
Contrary to popular belief we are probably never going to run out of oil, but sometime in the near future it is going to become too expensive.
也许与普遍看法相反，我们可能永远不会用光石油，但在不久将来石油将变得非常昂贵。
The trade in oil will not stop—January’s supplies are guaranteed—but it may decline.
石油交易并不会停止，一月份的供应已得到保证，但交易将会下降。
The IMF reckons that a 10% rise in oil prices knocks 0.2-0.3% off global GDP growth in the first year, but the impact on a big oil consumer like America is twice as large.
国际货币基金组织预计，10%的原油价格上升将会在第一年降低全球0.2% - 0.3%的GDP增长速度，但给像美国一样的石油消费大国将会是两倍的影响。
But it is also, in oil terms, the world's chief hope.
但从石油方面来说，它也是世界的主要希望。
But the collapse in the oil markets has shown just how much Russia still depends on getting a good price for its natural resources.
石油市场的崩溃表明俄罗斯仍依赖其自然资源获得一个好价钱的严重程度。
But unlike oil, wind cannot be put in a tanker and shipped.
但跟石油不同，风能不能装进油轮运走。
The council was promised a dollar for every barrel of oil produced in the province but the cash has yet to be seen.
理事会约定对生产的每桶石油收取一美元，但到现在还是没有见到现金。
But in the meantime, oil is both useful and precious.
与此同时，石油仍将有用且昂贵。
But developments in oil markets remain a major uncertainty in the outlook, as does the durability of the remarkable non-inflationary United States expansion.
但是石油市场的发展趋势以及美国经济扩张中的无通胀状况能够维持多久，将是未来的主要不确定因素。
But BP's disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has cast another dark shadow over the region.
但是BP公司在墨西哥湾灾难性的漏油事件给该地区带来了另外的麻烦。
Asia may be driving the growth in global oil demand, but it still only accounted for 20 percent of total world consumption last year, he said.
他说，亚洲或许会推进全球石油增长，但去年亚洲需求仍然只占世界总需求量的20%。
Our heads may be buried in our sleek laptops and gadgets, his masterly book announces, but our toes are still soaking in dirty, morally contaminated oil.
他在这本巨著中宣称，人类的头貌似已经徜徉于整洁体面的笔记本电脑中，可人类的脚趾仍浸泡在肮脏的、被污染了的原油之中。
For one thing, we're less dependent on oil: America has more than twice the real G.D.P. it had in 1979, but consumes only slightly more oil.
在一方面，我们对石油的倚赖有所减少：美国现在的GDP是1979年的两倍，但是石油消耗只多了一点点。
Energy forecasters increasingly predict slowing growth in global oil demand in the years ahead, but some OPEC nations are heading in the opposite direction and ramping up their capacity to pump oil.
能源预测人员越来越认为今后几年全球石油需求增长将会放缓，但石油输出国组织(Organization ofPetroleum Exporting Countries，简称：欧佩克)的一些成员国却与此背道而驰，致力于扩大石油产能。
In this image, the slick is partially covered by streaky clouds, but reddish streaks of oil can be seen in the close-up below.
在这幅图像中，大部分浮油让五花云给覆盖掉了，但你可以在下方的这张特写中看到一条淡红色的条纹，那就是油迹。
Why support oil drilling off the coast of Brazil but not in America?
为什么支持在巴西沿岸钻探，而不是在美国？
Why support oil drilling off the coast of Brazil but not in America?
为什么支持在巴西沿岸钻探，而不是在美国？
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