Although the dramatic image resembles the patterns made by an oil slick, the colour variations are from the bright layered deposits on the plateau.

虽然这张戏剧性的照片很像浮油凝结的模样，颜色的变化与明亮的高原沉积物还是有所不同的。

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A little oil presently eats out the colour.

只要有一点油就会使那颜色褪去。

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WHEN BP branded itself as “Beyond Petroleum”, and the fashionable colour among oil companies was green, Exxon Mobil stood aloof from the rush to embrace alternative sources of energy.

当英国石油公司（BP）标榜自己为“BP——Beyond Petroleum 超越石油”，而且各家石油企业崇尚环保的浓浓绿意之时，埃克森美孚（Exxon Mobil）却远离拥抱替代能源的时尚潮流。

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By the 16th century, oil bases and, later, a growing understanding of colour allowed for ever subtler combinations.

ECONOMIST: Science and history of colour

And although the latest conflict was triggered by Georgia, the deeper roots of Russia's invasion lie in domestic events that go back as far as 2003-04: the destruction of the Yukos oil company, and Russia's perception of the colour revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine as a Western plot to undermine its sovereignty.

ECONOMIST: Russia and Georgia

Delacroix used the traditional genre of flower painting throughout his career to examine form and colour, and both his small studies of delicate irises and jasmine as well as large oil paintings of carefully composed floral still lives are on show.

BBC: Paris�� art world is in full bloom