时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2017年1月


英语课

 


AZUZ: OK. Up next, a pipeline 1 that shuttles gasoline to the U.S. Southeast has been shut down. Gas prices are going up in several states.


Gas shortages are possible in some areas.


Any if these sound familiar? The same pipeline was temporarily closed in September, causing the same problems. A leak led to an 11-day shutdown at that time.


Earlier this week, a construction crew in Alabama accidentally hit the pipeline with a piece of heavy equipment. It caused a massive explosion, killing 2 one worker and injuring five others.


This pipeline, the Colonial Pipeline, is important, because it runs from refineries 3 in Houston, Texas, all the way up to terminals in New Jersey 4.


One oil analyst 5 characterized it as the aorta 6 of East Coast gasoline supplies. Governors in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina are taking steps to try to avoid gas shortages and keep prices from shooting up. The pipeline could reopen this Saturday.



1 pipeline
n.管道,管线
  • The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
  • A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。
2 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
3 refineries
精炼厂( refinery的名词复数 )
  • The efforts on closedown and suspension of small sugar refineries, small saccharin refineries and small paper mills are also being carried out in steps. 关停小糖厂、小糖精厂、小造纸厂的工作也已逐步展开。
  • Hence the sitting of refineries is at a distance from population centres. 所以,炼油厂的厂址总在远离人口集中的地方。
4 jersey
n.运动衫
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
5 analyst
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
6 aorta
n.主动脉
  • The abdominal aorta is normally smaller than the thoracic aorta.腹主动脉一般比胸主动脉小。
  • Put down that jelly doughnut and look carefully at this aorta.放下手头上的东西,认真观察这张大动脉图片。
学英语单词
Aberteifi
abrasive tumbling
acrolein test
Adigeni
alloyed transistor
aluminium zinc alloys
anthropogeography
background noise photon
baensch
bath sample
Baudrillard
bending planer
bilidiene
busying
Calotropis procera
capitalistically
carminophil cell
chaulmoogrol
chondrillasterol
closed planer
coil and gravity starter
collision-free plasma
corpus atreticum
crestomorite
crippling resistance
cutter groove grinder
Dinitrel
dismembration
dolomite-magnesite brick
drift net vessel
earning value
economic regulation
embed
equivalent valuations
espousage
evilless
fiddle-dick
fire-grate bar
fort providence (providence)
fruit-shops
full scope audit
gear box tool house foreman
geoid undulation
glycophosphatidylinositol
high pressure spectrometry
high-speed shutter
ikey
incoming train
intermediate bloomer
intracellular freezing
kaboodles
kenotron rectifer
knock-out table
kretschmer
laminar flow control
lay ... off
leather research institute
les miserables
load demand
maetus nasi
Malaysian Mujahidin Group
mannosyl-lysine
Mass-John
mclaney
metry
modern englishes
nodular leukoplakia
ore deposit
osmotic factor
overcooking
perfluidone
permit into
Picón, Cerro
plain hank
posterior intercostal arteries
potassium hydrogen pyrophosphate
prawn cocktail
quitasol
red-rimmeds
rotor starter
shadow microdiffraction
single-value measuring tool
SLC (selector channel)
snackmaker
staidness
stock in transit
Sulzer packing
supply reservoir
thermal analyzer
transformer-coupling amplifier
truncated posterior distribution
two stand mill
Tyburn tree
ultraviolet divergence
under-fiend
unsaturated current transformator
volcanic mound seismic facies
wet oxidation process
wgt.
whisker crystal
witness-bearing
yanks