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
alcestes
annapoliss
Argyreia
aurovertins
blind carbon
borrowed prosperity
Bush, George (Herbert Walker)
casos
Cassiope argyrotricha
chromous sulfate
clingfilms
command centre
commercial telegrams
country limit
creole-fish
croquemort
cross cut shears
cushion bond
Darazo
dermoid cysts
devachan
dicoronene
digital logic circuit
dismissal from proceedings
distele
elasticity law
esztergoms
eutocous
exposed view
Ezion-geber
family viverridaes
free charge carrier
gammel
genus ommastrephess
geographical frontier
girlest
goodenough
Graveley
grease floatation tank
group divisible design
gundulf
henlike
high performance fibre
high speed belt
historiographic
illeviable
inclined cutting
inhibit behaviour
insufficiency of packing
jan steens
Labangan
Lactuca sativa Bisch.
loss compression
luprops orientalis
Mastigophora
medicochirurgic
Meprol
microsystems electronics
minimax method
ministerial level meeting
Mongalla
nar
Neblina, Pico da
neuro-sciences
noise shaping
nonketotic hyperglycinemia
olona
ossa suturae
outdoor agitation
paleovegetation
Pangia
paragobiodon lacunicolus
parenchyme of testis
phenol formaldehyde resin
pimento trees
pollenger
posttranslocation
primary crater
provincial government
radio electronic transmitting antenna
reflected wave coupler
rice disease
rotational part
sagaciates
sandblast cleaning
sea-launched ballistic missile
secondhand cars
sheepshearer
spool flange
stamped nut
strengths-oriented
switch expansion joint
Syndicat d'Initiative
trammer
transportome
VBSL
vestour
Warrensville Heights
water chestnut picking boat
workingclass
yellowness factor
yezoensis