Energy conservation in rich countries and the rise of non-OPEC production took off in earnest. Fractious infighting left the cartel in disarray. Prices collapsed.

富油国限制石油产量，而非欧佩克成员国则大幅度提高产量。混战之后油价崩溃，欧佩克陷入困境。

He had to run the country, too, and wrestle with a fractious congress at every point to get things done

他还得治理这个国家，凡事都要和乖戾固执的国会斗争一番才能办成。

Run by fractious triumvirate, it produced some noble plays

由独断专行的三人小组经营该剧团演出了一些名剧。

The new head of Sweden’s $10 billion telecommunications equipment maker tried to figure out how to ge Ericsson’s often fractious business units to work as a team.

这位主宰价值100亿美元的瑞典通信设备制造商的新领袖兰科维斯特先生，思考着怎样使爱立信通常分散的几个业务集团成为一个工作整体。

||1: New Ways to Kill Your Mother, the latest collection of essays from Colm Toibin, an Irish novelist and critic, is full of such moments when a writer and his family “get at” each other. ||2: Fractious family relations may not be uncommon, yet the extent to which these writers-including W.B. Yeats, Thomas Mann, James Baldwin and John Cheever-managed to fight with their parents, siblings and children make arguments over the dinner table seem like a specialised art form.

||1:《弑母新法》是科尔姆托宾，爱尔兰小说家评论家最新的散文集，书中充满这样的细节，作家和他的家人如何“修理”对方。||2:家人之间的剑拔弩张也许并不少见，但是和一些大师，包括叶芝，托马斯曼，鲍德温和约翰契福等，曾和父母兄弟姐妹子女动手的程度相比，在晚餐时拌拌嘴就像是种特殊的艺术形式。

||1:When the fighting is finished, history is written, inevitably by those in power, observes Mr Dower.||2:The standard American view of the struggle against Japan is that it was just and moral.||3:But this grants little space for the ghastly side of victory, which included the airborne destruction of 66 cities and the incineration of more than half a million civilians.||4:China and Korea’s political elites have found it endlessly useful to bang the nationalist drum to unite potentially fractious populations against their old enemy.||5:Japanese conservatives have made it easy for them, whitewashing the past and attempting to pass off Imperial Japan’s rampage across Asia as a “holy war” against Western colonialism.

||1:道尔做出了这样的评论：当战争结束后，历史将不可避免地由当权者写下。||2:美国人普遍认为对日战争是公正的、合乎道德的。||3:但这份胜利仍然有着极为惨烈的一面——其中日本66座城市遭到空袭破坏，50多万平民灰飞烟灭。||4:中国和韩国的政治精英发现，想要把内心愤怒的民族联合起来对抗其共同的宿敌，敲响民族主义这面大鼓最为有效。||5:日本的保守派粉饰历史，试图将日本帝国在全亚洲的暴行伪装成对西方殖民主义的“圣战”——这给中韩两国的政治精英提供了有利机会。

||1:When death overtook him, he had ruled Libya for 42 years.||2:The handsome, magnetic army captain who had overthrown King Idris in 1969 had become a robed buffoon, with a surgically smoothed face, a mop of dyed black hair and, until she scuttled home, a blonde Ukrainian nurse on his arm.||3:Yet he was no less cunning.||4:Behind the designer shades his eyes were those of a fox.||5:By sheer imposition of the cult of himself, he had held his tribally fractious country together.

||1:死亡之神将他带走之际，他统治利比亚已达42年之久。||2:这位玉树临风，魅力四射的上尉曾于1969年推翻伊德里斯王朝。然而，他却变成了身着长袍的跳梁小丑，挂着做过拉皮手术的脸，披着蓬乱的黑色染发，搂着金发碧眼的乌克兰护士匆匆逃回老家。||3:不过，他依旧诡计多端。||4:时髦的墨镜下面藏着如狐狸般狡猾的眼睛。||5:他奉行绝对个人崇拜，实现了统一国家的大业，尽管这个国家曾经因部落群立而四分五裂。

||1:Meanwhile, the fighting opposition inside Syria is growing ever more fractious .||2:Two rebels were reported to have been beheaded recently in Dana, a town in Idleb, a north-western province that is mainly in rebel hands, after they clashed with fighters from a rival group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (“Greater Syria” in Arabic), which is tied to al-Qaeda.||3:The group has been trying to make inroads into areas in the north that are held by more secular rebels.||4:Mr Jarba has a tough task ahead.

||1:同时，叙利亚境内的反对派武装力量还在不断失控中。||2:有报道称，在由反叛军控制的叙利亚西北部的伊德利卜（Idleb）省达纳镇（Dana），两名反对者在与一支竞争组织发生冲突后被处以极刑，后者自称伊拉克伊斯兰国和al-Sham（阿拉伯语，“大叙利亚”），并与基地组织交往甚密。||3:这个组织一直试图侵入叙利亚北部地区，而北部地区则为世俗反叛军所持有。||4:贾尔巴还将面临严峻考验。

||For a brief moment, it appeared that American’s fractious politicians and capital markets were all in agreement.|| House Bill 3606, unofficially referred to as the JOBS act and officially (stretching out the acronym) known as the “Jumpstart Our Business Start-up Act”, sailed through the House of Representatives by 390 votes to 23 on March 8th.

||在眼下，易怒的美国政治家竟决定要扶持资本市场。3月8号，民间称为就业法案，官方称为“复苏本国商业活动法案”的众议院3606号法案在该院得到390张支持票、23张反对票，顺利通过。||

The art of Belgian political leadership consists of bringing consensus to a broad and fractious coalition.

比利时的政治领导艺术，在于让一个难以驾驭的联盟形成共识。

His government, elected in 2007, will serve out a full term, a rarity in a fractious and factious place.

从07年上任至今，他所在政府即将执政期满，在这个烦躁的地方实属罕见。

Davos instead has been locked in fractious debate about bankers’ bonuses, US jobs and the financial implosion of Greece.

达沃斯陷入了有关银行家奖金、美国就业以及希腊财政危机的激烈辩论。

EVERYONE knows it takes chameleon qualities to survive the fractious , shifting politics of Lebanon.

大家都知道黎巴嫩政治上必须随时变化才能在残酷的环境中生存。

But the two parties did not exactly campaign in harmony, and differences over taxation and spending may make their alliance a fractious one.

但两党在竞选中也并非完全协调一致，而在税收和开支政策上的分岐可能导致他们的关系僵化。

But it is also a signal to a fractious Europe that markets are losing patience with endless political dithering.

但它也向任性的欧洲发出一个信号：市场正对无休止的政治迟疑失去耐心。

both run fractious parties in a shaky new coalition;

都在一个风雨飘摇的新联合政府中领导争强好斗的党派；

Debates about the extent to which tax and welfare policy should redistribute wealth from rich to poor tend to be particularly fractious .

而关于税收以及工资如何从富人手中重新分配到穷人手中的争论则更为激烈。

The Nobel Committee has achieved something of a first by bringing the fractious Twitterverse into such widespread agreement.

而诺委会首次使难以调和的Twitter达成如此广泛的共识，他们真的做到了。

The euro zone’s political leaders, alas, are a fractious and underwhelming lot.

而欧元区的政治领袖们是一批烦躁而腻味的人。

Working out what fractious parties, pressure groups and power brokers are up to is virtually impossible.

而找到难以驾驭的党派，施压集团与政治掮客各自擅长的活更是难以实现。

Managing a fractious coalition is just the start of the Maoists’ troubles.

管理一个随时可能爆发事端的执政联盟，这只是毛派烦恼的开始。

It might also help to unite a fractious opposition against what they portray as an assault on democracy.

桀骜不驯的反对派也可能借此团结起来，反对他们所描述的攻击民主的行为。

The veto was unexpected and was being seen as a watershed in Britain’s fractious relationship with the rest of Europe.

卡梅伦的否决出人意料，被视为英国与欧洲其它国家之间不稳定的关系的转折点。

The United Nations climate conference in Durban, South Africa, is likely to be a fractious and unsuccessful affair.

联合国（UN）在南非德班举行的气候大会，很可能在争吵中不了了之。

Influence of Liujunzijiajian Formula on vasoactive fractious of gastric mucous coat in rats with gastric ulcer

六君子加减方对胃溃疡大鼠胃黏膜血管活性物质的影响

Nepal, a country of 28m people, is a poor, lawless and fractious place.

尼泊尔拥有人口数量高达2800万，是一个贫困不堪，没有法纪，独断专行的国家。

Nepal is led by a fractious coalition, which the Maoists want to widen by including regional parties from the south and south-east.

尼执政联盟内部龃龉不断，毛派希望将尼南部及东南部的地方政党也拉入其中。

The failure (so far) of the Norwegian authorities to expel Mullah Krekar, a fractious Islamic cleric, has caused agitation.

挪威当局（到目前为止）没能驱逐极端伊斯兰教士毛拉•克雷卡尔（MullahKrekar）已经引起骚乱。

Former Communists dominated the government until 1996, when they were swept from power by a fractious coalition of centrist parties.

前共产党执政，直到1996年，被合并的中间派党推翻。

His fractious reformists, however, proved no match for the conservatives entrenched in the power structure.

然而，哈塔米派改革激进，同权利架构中已确立地位的保守派格格不入。