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
Allium hymenorhizum
andrium
apparatus derivatorius
ball-bearing fit
bawtries
Beaver L.
break-bulk vessel
calvet
cased impeller
certification system
clobberers
close check
constering
controller mechanism
criminal group
curvularia intermedia
dashiest
demi-vierges
dikpati
double slider machanism
dull deposit
earth capacity
economic impact
electroelectret
elevensomes
endorsed tools list
equivelocity contour
expression dictionary
fauces
fire water jockey pump
footages
foreign exchange control regulation
free hand sketch
gapier
good gradient
gorka
great pluvial
hessian cloth
ignition wiring
integrated circuit socket
ivkovic
Killis
logarithmic survivor curve
loved'th
Lucignano
luminescent material
lunch special
man trolley
Manning R.
Marlovians
miana
mishev
monoclone antibody
monticellite nepheline basalt
multi-user timeshared system
multichotomies
multisoliton
munja
Niggli matrix
nonattended
nontricyclic drugs
OCOP
one of the parties
ophyra spinigera
ostariophysis
palo duro canyon
Pango Pango
panyarachuns
peripatecians
phatna
pilot bomb
Portuscale
production servomechanism
rapid-sand filter strainer
record type currency indicator
reference model system
renstamin
reverse pedal
ring hammer crusher
roll ... hoop
Sclerodactylidae
signal of giving way
signalling identifier / service id
soil arthropod
spiking hammer
squeezin'
substance of lens
sugar crop
tachyphylaxis
tanker voyage charter party
tax-take
the commonweal
the mean
toxicopexis
trialkyl
tuerckheimia svihlae
varistructured processor
vermiculous
xico (jico)
yesses
Zarbdor
zdanowicz