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


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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
accumulative pitch error
Acherontia
acronematic
Ada language definition
African lily
anaxter
apomixes
application for cargo shipment
area radiation monitor
aurone
aydar
barneveld
barrelling
bekenstein
biliverdine
bow wood
breslau
build on sth
car-loading charge
caveer
central lateral nucleus
chaing
Chart of Lines of Equal Magnetic Variation
cold wet skin
compulsory measures
computer confetti
couzin
cross wind axis
Cucumis bisexualis
cutting dew
dahlia B
Daily Chart
declaration for land transportation
Dermocarpa
desultoriness
documentarising
draining tank
electronic data processing management science
Endoxan-asta
equal annual accrual method
Erycibe subspicata
estipulate
fibre ring
fluctuating mains voltage
food economics
gamma distribution
Garrettsville
gather around
grey-suit
group homomorphism
gynecotokological pathology
hambleton hills
head-high
heart cherries
Henry Robinson Luce
highly plastic clay
hiroyuki
index structure
irritator
kollers
ladykind
light intensity high (lih)
Lincolnshire Red
Ludimbi
luster mottled quartz
main charging blet
maskeg
Matasano
maxima
mechanical assemble program
medical administration
Mulsopaque
multi-purpose cutter
musterbation
nonrecurrent point
oil tank car
oriented edge
pastures
phlegmatization
pitthe
plastic dosimeter
plastic match-plate
propeller flow
purposive selection
resistance stabilized oscillator
roggenbrots
rotary servo valve
scirrhuses
solid propellant rocket projectile
sorption pump
steam-mixer
stigmergy
toxicityemission coefficient
trisaccate pollen
trophic organization
usufruct of immovable property
vena haemorrhoidalis media
Vessels company flag
w guide
weingard
working map
Zanthoxyleae