Lifestyle: This West African country has been described as a "parody of an oil kleptocracy," and that's certainly true of the jet-setting life of its ruling family..

生活方式：这个西非国家被描述成“处于近乎石油海盗的统治之下”，而用来描述这个统治家族实在再好不过。

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Mr Saleh stood accused of amassing power and wealth for his immediate family, nimbly wielding oil revenues and foreign aid to perpetuate his 33-year-long hold on the state.

人们指责萨利赫聚敛权力和财富为其家族所用，谴责他利用石油收入和外国支持，令其权利在对这个国家统治了33年之后依然可以千秋万载无限绵延。

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The same women would appear sometimes at the wood-frame house, where her family of 11 lived in three rooms, burning coal-oil and hauling water from the spring, and offer them second-hand clothes.

那些女士们有时会出现在她那木头房子里——她的11个家人挤在三个房间里，靠烧煤油和汲取泉水生活，为他们提供的二手衣服。

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Family members rush to take advantage of every precious drop before the afternoon, filling plastic jugs,oil drums, and pails with water for use by the 15 people who live in this home.

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This June it broke ground in Paterson, New Jersey, just east of its U.S. headquarters, on a prototype family home with insulation that reduces the amount of oil required for heating and cooling by 80%.

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Mr Wheelhouse also passed on his condolences to the family of a crewman killed when an oil support vessel was hit by severe gales.

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