The Khanty and Mansi had lived in such tents before oil producing companies were established here.

在石油生产公司建立前，汉特曼西斯克人都住在这样的帐篷里。

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He memorably challenged foreign oil executives by telling them "people who have lived without oil for 5,000 years can live without it again for a few years in order to attain their legitimate rights".

面对外国石油公司的头头脑脑，他曾经说过一句历久不衰的狠话，“人类没石油都活了5000年，为了争取合法权利，再多过几年没石油的日子，自然也不成问题”。

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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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In 1987, the bishop from a local Capuchin mission volunteered to reach out to one particularly reclusive tribe, the Tagaeri, who lived on land that another oil company wished to explore.

NEWYORKER: Reversal of Fortune

Other companies that have low interest-coverage ratios or short-lived reserves include Rutherford-Moran Oil Corp.

FORBES: Bear trap

In the 1991 Gulf war, the conflict was over swiftly and the oil-price spike short-lived, so the markets soon recovered.

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