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
acetylglutathione
adjustable end stop
Alfreda
alphabeticalism
alteners
ammoniated silver nitrate
area external irradiation monitor
auchinclosses
brake van
bronchotracheal
butethamine hydrochloride
carry-over bar
cascade down
chesthair
chloropyridines
collapsions
computer-output microfilm
console switch
cotton-tops
decision-makings
detainure
disilyls
distressed goods
double volute pump
drive power
enterprise bargaining
external selection
fbus
free time
genus mucunas
glass-coated wire
Hibiscus manihot
highly-regardeds
hordio (hurdiyo)
hydroplane
imperfect indicative
inspection for leakage
instrument channel trip signal
interference inverter
interpretable
iodothyroidin
isozygotic
key encapsulation
knife gap lightning protector
laboriosity
leakage recycling
level adjusting attenuator
Lord's Supper,the
macrophoto
Malpighiales
mariness
metal tank rectifier
mineralizing solution
minimum tree method
mirror housing
mortising
multichannel optical analyzer
myricyl cerotate
neutralite
nuclomudone
nursing interventions
octamethylene
Opsaheden
OSAI
overpush
pakurin
Pamovin
parachuting injury
peletre
polyaemia
polyp-type grab bucket
pore geometry
prehab
regular coast
renomee
satin plain mixed
scratch papers
shoto
signalling searchlight
silver potassium carbonate
speech processing software
spsosssts-s
standard form of salvage agreement
stick one's neck out
summary statistics
superscalars
supracondylar osteotomy
tacon
thaad
the incidence
thiocarbonic acid
toxicity radiation
trampolined
transparents
transportable height finder
ultrafine (grinding) mill
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown
vaubel
waylayings
Weston cadmium cell
whaling master
whs., whse.