Oil hit a peak even before news emerged that some foreign oil companies operating in Libya would stop some production and that the country’s ports had temporarily closed.

甚至于在有关“一些在利比亚经营的石油公司可能会停止部分石油生产以及利比亚临时关闭港口”的新闻出现之前，油价已经触及峰值。

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Oil hit a peak even before news emerged that some foreign oil companies operating in Libya would stop some production and that the country's ports had temporarily closed.

甚至于在有关“一些在利比亚经营的石油公司可能会停止部分石油生产以及利比亚临时关闭港口”的新闻出现之前，油价已经触及峰值。

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Schmidt was brought on to stop the bleeding, but it was too late; by the time he left in 2001, the company's revenues had fallen 50 percent off their peak.

施米特是来止亏的，不过为时已晚；到2001年他离开的时候，这家公司的收入已经从最高点下降了50%。

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Each stop to check out the features around the peak could involve "a few weeks of activity" at a time, he said.

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Peak torque arrives quickly, at 3, 250 rpm, and the squirt from a standing stop to that rpm comes on with great urgency because the newest Bentley uses twin turbochargers that spool up very rapidly.

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