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他一边对阿拉伯半岛的石油蕴藏情况进行调查,一边马不停蹄地游走于半岛各国之间,向一个个“贫穷”的君主洒播“石油--财富”的预言,霍姆斯想尽一切办法试图使他们相信,他们祖祖辈辈、世世代代面对的令人绝望的沙漠底下埋藏着巨大的财富,这真是符合阿拉伯人民《天方夜谭》式的幻想了……
While surveying the oil reserves in the Arabian Peninsula, he walked nonstop to the nations of the peninsula and spread the prophecy of “oil-wealth” to the “poor” monarchs. Holmes thought Try every possible means to convince them that the great fortune buried beneath the desperate deserts that they have faced for generations to come is really in line with the “fantasy of the Arabian phalanx” of the Arab people.