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
acrosomal vesicle
afonja
Alaxin
antiservice
Aprilfool
bituminous treatment
blind story
block goods transport
bollworms
Booth,John Wilkes
brass-neck
caff
campoletis chlorideae
capital stock common
carrier filter
case of
cetamolol
chain of model
chequering
claes
clovia quadrangularis
colloquium
contact stain
crush time
demobitis
depullulation
dioons
division of property rights
dolittles
earliest activity finish time
electrical scanner
Eyefinity
farewell party
feiertag
feminas
free from unbalance
genetive
get a handle on
grommet nut
H type cable
heterojunction semiconductor laser
hilar fissure
Hosur
hougham
house rules
imbittered
inconsistent statement
irregular intergrowth
Itaipu, Reprêsa de
Kirikasama
laparoscopy
large-scale bybrid microprocessor
leading marks method
lintner starch
longwoods
magnetoscillation
mlt (median lethal time)
mode of treatment
monetary operation
newsphotos
Omanizing
output equipment
over-speech
overdued cargo
Paraschwagerina
pardoned
perchlorovinyl lacquer
phosphatese
piece of data
Podčetrtek
Pogenia ophioglossoides A. Gray
polyacrylic ester
punch land
rearrangement of series
reclining
replantation of amputated finger
rhadinoviral
risquets
safetec
salm
shaving allowance
shop around
sight reader
solitary uterine tumor
spurious drugs
square nut with collar
storeholder
stuctural isomerism
stud driver
subscanner
substrate guided wave
superpanopticons
synchronized i/o operation
take-home message
Talloires
Timiskaming, L.
tribewanted
trip and date encoder
Vest Fjord
vitalizes
wakening of a process
waveguide-magnetron