在18世纪直到19世纪中叶,鲸油一直都是多数西方世界国家的照明能源。
From the 18th through the mid-19th century, whale oil provided light to much of the Western world.
当在西方世界被伤及的情面很快恢复如初时,在其他那些对泄密不那么习以为常的国家问题就没这么好解决了。
And while bruised feelings may be rapidly healed in the west, they will not be resolved so quickly in other countries not used to the leak as a fact of political life.
全球变暖以及西方世界对愈来愈依赖少数几个(而且正在变少)敌对或不稳定国家的油气也令人担心。
Meanwhile, concern is swelling both aboutglobal warming, and about the Western world's increasing dependence on ashrinking number of hostile or unstable countries for imports of oil and gas.
That is the dominant sort of paradigm of what life is all about, at least in the Western world and a good deal more of it where the West has had an influence.
这可以说是有关生命的一种主导范式,至少对于西方世界,以及受西方影响的其他国家是如此
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