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
action tendency
adaptive policy
advanced procedure
aeromechanical
ash loss
automatic skidding device
azidoglycosides
be irregular
bisa pulau
blackout spot
Blackstaff R.
blinking characteristics
boardsmanship
Brayton cycle
breezewood
brethern
center sill
cervicospinal arthropathy
chosen-cipher text attack
Ciba colours
cocklings
cold flashing
couplet written on scroll
CTOL
defervescing plague
different in growth habits of plants
diminutive (dm) mouse
discrete error
double gear cone transmission
electrical creepage path
elevated flooring
elevating chain
energy regeneration
equal-payment series compound amount factor
escapar
factoran
family Dicamptodontidae
fantasy-land
feinting
Financial Portal
fuso-spirillary gingivitis
gaalsb/gasb
gcse
Goupi Gao
ice prognosis
ideal truss
if-and-only-if operation
indicated lamp
Itapagé
lacul
loading and unloading
local spots market
marriage by proxy
Mbundu
microchiropteran
milli-millesm
minimal distance docoder
misregulating
modulating functions
monoclinic holohedral class
moon train
multivelocity equation
murly
muscoid form
new mercantilism
Northwest Mounted Police
nuclear reaction at high energy
oil supply pump
ophthalmonacrosis
opocephalic fetus
oriental type cigarette
pleural wing process
plummete
politiqueras
progressive retinal atrophy
prone(to)
pudendal canal
resonance hybrid
Rhododendron tubiforme
rotary dumping coal car
saw ... up
scrap heaps
searingly
semi-automatic exposure control
shunt feedback amplifier
singlebreak
Snaefellsjökull
sports bib
supinely
tachysystolic
three-shift cyclic mining
throttle steam pressure
Timoshenko, Simion Konstantinovich
u-shaped curve
ultrasonic welding machine
unau
vectorization procedure
ven? centrales
wackiness
wasabia tenuis matsum.
working locomotive
zillertalbahn