中国马来西亚250亿美元液化天然气交易

China has agreed to buy $25 billion worth of liquefied natural gas over the next 25 years from the Malaysian national oil and gas company known as Petronas (short for Petroliam Nasional Berhad). The Chinese want to increase their use of natural gas in order to reduce their dependence¹ on coal and oil, which cause more pollution than natural gas. Petronas will ship three million metric tons of the fuel each year to a terminal in Shanghai that is currently under construction. In other Malaysian business news, activists² in that country protested a free trade agreement currently being negotiated between their country and the United States.

1 dependence   

n.依靠，依赖；信任，信赖；隶属

参考例句：

• Doctors keep trying to break her dependence of the drug.医生们尽力使她戒除毒瘾。
• He was freed from financial dependence on his parents.他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。

2 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》