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Unit6 贫富有别，治国有道 1 Thesweetperfumewafting over northern Iraq does not come from the wildflowers that speckleits rumpled plains in spring. It is the smell of oil and it is everywhere, flaring at wellheads, sloshingfrom the tanker trucks that grind up potholed roads to backyard refineries in the Kurdish hills and fuming from their chimneys. Nor is this the oiliest part of Iraq. That lies in the deserts to the south where it literally seeps from the ground. In fact the whole of Iraq sits atop seams and pockets of the sticky stuff. There is plenty to go around, if only the Iraqis could agree to stop shooting each other. 伊拉克北部的空气中 弥漫的 甜甜的芳香并非来自于春天里 点缀 着凌乱 草地的野花， 这种气味是由遍及这 里每一寸土地的石油而散发开来的，而且随处可见开采井口冒着熊熊烈火，油罐车轧着崎岖的路面留下 了一路的油渍，而它的目的地便是库尔德山间烟囱耸立的炼油厂。其实伊拉克最为盛产石油的地方还不 是这里，而是位于通往南部的沙漠 —— 那里的石油简直是从地面直接渗出来的。假如这个国家族群之间 的暴力争斗能够停止的话，那生活在液体黄金之上的全体伊拉克人民一定会过着安居乐业的生活。 2 There is plenty for other Arabs, too. Taken together, their 19 countries hold some 46% of the world proven oil reserves (as well as a quarter of its natural-gas reserves). The ones with the most have it doubly easy. Saudis or Kuwaitis spend just $3 to tap a barrel from their most accessiblewells. Small wonder that their oilmen scoff at looming competition from America ’s fancy frackers and shaleicrsa.l Twhi zeatredcr yh no f the modern drilling techniques that may soon make America self-sufficient in energy can push the cost of extracting a barrel well beyond $100. 其实，伊拉克富饶的燃料资源只是整个阿拉伯世界一个缩影。 数据显示， 全球 46%的石油探明储量 （以 及1/4 的天然气储量） 都位于 19 个阿拉伯国家的地下， 其中储量最多的那些国家更是轻而易举地就能获 取石油资源。沙特和科威特最易开采石油的地方，其最低成本只需每桶 3 美元，这也就是为什么美国高 端的水力压裂页岩油气技术人员带来了日趋激烈的竞争，而当地石油开采工人却还不以为然的原因。这 种在美国人眼中的现代钻井技术可能在不久的将来， 奇迹般地使美国成为一个能源自给的国家 —— 但是 采用这一技术的开采成本却远远高于每桶 100美元。 3 The Arab world ’s hydrocarbon riches are unevenly shared. Saudi Arabia alone holds the bullkreosf earves. Just eight Arab countries have actually grown rich from energy exports, though some of them spectacularly so: in the tiny emirate of Qatar some 14% of households are dollar millionaires,