Abdelaziz Sager is the chairman of the Gulf Research Center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The economic development and oil policy of Saudi Arabia

沙特阿拉伯的经济发展与石油政策

But the incident, which stemmed from a long-running investigation into claims that BAE had lubricated the& pound; 43 billion ($ 70 billion) "al-Yamamah" arms deal with Saudi Arabia with bribes to government officials and members of the royal family, was yet another embarrassment for the world's third-biggest defence company.

但这一事件使这个世界第三大军工公司又一次陷入尴尬。这一事件源于一个长期调查，旨在证明BAE向沙特阿拉伯的政府官员和皇室成员行贿，以促成430亿英镑（合700亿美元）的“al-Yamamah”军火交易。

Uber's investors include Goldman Sachs, Benchmark, and Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund.

优步的投资者包括高盛（Goldman Sachs）、风险投资公司Benchmark以及沙特阿拉伯的主权财富基金。

In 2006, the law in Saudi Arabia changed.

2006年，沙特阿拉伯的法律发生了变化。

Iran has warned Saudi Arabia and other members of the OPEC cartel not to increase their oil production to make up any shortfall created by Western sanctions against Tehran.

伊朗警告沙特阿拉伯及欧佩克（opec）其它成员国不要为了弥补西方制裁伊朗造成的供应缺口而提高石油产量。

Sandstorms are common during the Saudi Arabian winter

在沙特阿拉伯，冬季里沙尘暴很常见。

An important step in this direction has been taken by the multilateral consultations on global imbalances, launched by the IMF last year in Singapore and involving the US, the eurozone, Japan, China and Saudi Arabia.

IMF去年在新加坡启动围绕全球失衡问题的多边协商，是朝着这一方向迈出的重要一步。参与各方包括美国、欧元区、日本、中国和沙特阿拉伯。

It is not clear how many of them will be heading back to Saudi Arabia tomorrow

还不清楚他们中间有多少人明天要回沙特阿拉伯。

Iraq itself has oil reserves second in size only to Saudi Arabia's.

伊拉克本身的石油储量在世界上居第二位，仅次于沙特阿拉伯。

The men have been debriefed by British and Saudi officials

英国和沙特阿拉伯的官员听取了他们的情况汇报。

If oil and gas are taken together, they export more energy than Saudi Arabia, and that money props up the military of President Vladimir V. Putin.

该国油气合计的能源出口量超越了沙特阿拉伯，而由此带来的收入支撑了总统弗拉基米尔·V·普京（Vladimir V.Putin）的军力。

It could be financed by the countries with large foreign exchange reserves, such as China, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council members, as well as India, South Korea and Brazil.

它可以由拥有大量外汇储备的国家出资，比如中国、沙特阿拉伯和其它海湾合作委员会（gulf cooperation council）成员国，以及印度、韩国和巴西。

Angola along with Saudi Arabia is China's largest oil supplier and that alone makes Mr Vicente an important man in Beijing.

地理位置临近沙特阿拉伯的安哥拉，是中国最大的石油供给方。这种现状使Vicente先生成为北京非常重要的客人。

WOMEN traveling to Saudi Arabia often raise eyebrows there, and Michelle Obama was no exception.

去沙特阿拉伯旅行的西方女人往往会令那里的人扬起眉毛，米歇尔·奥巴马（Michelle Obama）也不例外。

Also yesterday, at a meeting in Saudi Arabia, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC) focused on new technologies that could ensure a cleaner use of oil and natural gas.

同样也是在9月21日，在沙特阿拉伯召开的一次会议上，石油输出国组织（OPEC）宣布将专注发展新的技术，确保对石油和天然气更加清洁的利用。

Saudi officials have dismissed such reports as rumours.

沙特阿拉伯的官员已经将此类报告视作谣言而不予理睬。

The cost of diabetes treatment in Saudi Arabia is expected to rise to$ 2.4 billion in 2015, more than triple that spent in 2010, according to a recent study in the Journal of Family and Community Medicine.

《家庭及社区医学期刊》（Journal of Family and Community Medicine）最近的一项研究显示，沙特阿拉伯糖尿病的治疗费用预计将在2015年增至24亿美元，是2010年的三倍多。

Saudi Arabia's proven oil reserves, the world's largest conventional ones, were 266bn barrels at the end of last year, according to the BP Statistical Review.

沙特阿拉伯是全球常规石油储量最大的国家，根据《英国石油公司世界能源统计年鉴》（BP Statistical Review of World Energy）的数据，去年底该国已探明石油储量是2660亿桶。

The dislocation prompted Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, to drop WTI as its benchmark for sales in the US.

由于交割地点不当，全球最大原油出口国沙特阿拉伯放弃了把WTI作为在美国销售原油的基准。

I must read up on Arab customs before I go to Saudi Arabia.

在去沙特阿拉伯之前我必须先阅读大量材料以了解阿拉伯人的风俗习惯。