The project is ended, and while it is perhaps true that we have failed, others will follow in our footsteps and, building upon our crude preliminary work, will at last succeed.

这个研究项目结束了，尽管也许真的可以说，我们失败了，但别人会沿着我们的足迹，以我们粗略的初步工作为基础向前推进，最终取得成功。

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Our mission now questions how much the Saudis can now substantively influence the crude markets over the long term.

现在，我们的任务在质疑究竟沙特在原油市场上能产生多少实质性的长期影响。

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The 1999 version was crude by our current standards, even though it was state of the art at the time.

用如今的观点看来，1999 的版本太简陋了，尽管这在当前很时尚。

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But we were still importing some 50% of our crude oil consumption.

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Instead, they have pushed our crude supplies into the export market.

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We would have been worse off if we had tried to produce all our refined products from our own crude oil.

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