Though national oil companies have forced the Western oil giants to look farther afield for new reserves, the oil prices, unlike gas prices, are supported by the state-owned firms that make up OPEC.

尽管国有石油公司使得西方石油巨鳄为了储备，必须向更远的地方开采。石油价格，不同于天然气价格，仍然得到那些国有石油公司的(opec成员国的组成部分)支持！

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"His friend lamented;" the faster your horse runs, the more money you've got and the more skilled your driver is, "the farther you are away from the state of Chu by continuing to head northward."

他叹了口气，说：“你的马越快，带的钱越多，驾车技术越高，如果方向错了，那就离楚国越来越远了。”

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Asked to confirm that two of the largest Jewish settlement blocks Maale Adumim, due east of Jerusalem, and Ariel, which pokes a long finger into the West Bank farther north would not be annexed to the Jewish state in such swaps, Mr Abbas declined to be drawn on geographical details.

ECONOMIST: The Middle East peace process

If the president cannot wield some clout in a conservative state within easy range of the White House, the Republicans have a problem that stretches much farther than the Blue Ridge Mountains.

ECONOMIST: The Virginia governor's race