Although the dramatic image resembles the patterns made by an oil slick, the colour variations are from the bright layered deposits on the plateau.
虽然这张戏剧性的照片很像浮油凝结的模样，颜色的变化与明亮的高原沉积物还是有所不同的。
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A little oil presently eats out the colour.
只要有一点油就会使那颜色褪去。
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WHEN BP branded itself as “Beyond Petroleum”, and the fashionable colour among oil companies was green, Exxon Mobil stood aloof from the rush to embrace alternative sources of energy.