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
'eighties
acetonyl
adenophyma
adipogenic
alcoholicity
amynology
antecrochets
astragal plane
Athapascans
awiht
B. P.C.
bilateral exchange contract
bioelectrical integrator
browntown
calf-skin
charge-sensitive amplifier
chloroblast
circle of dispersion
conical straight fluted reamer
continuous start/stop operation
cutoff accuracy
data process
dental probe
differential surge-tank
disturbest
downrange site
duty engineer
enhanced broadcasting services
Epipolasina
epoxyoleananolide
Euonymus americanus
faning strip
festival of lanterns
Gbalo
geological model
glandulae atrabiliaris
H-T-H-W
hat cheo
heart murmur
Herxheimer fever
Hicksites
hollow spindle lache
Hooperatings
human resource strategy
ice minus, ice-minus
inthis
invertivore
Kittle overflow tray
makaweli
meagering
mean linear diameter
Messembé
metal working fluid
mysteriarchs
neoagarooligosaccharide
oblege
ocean burial
oculus parietalis
of substance
ognev
Orchard Heights
p'o p'?n
pakalolos
photocoupled
plain flours
Polygala arcuata
portenos
post-oral arm
pressure breathing oxygen regulator
process chemistry for wastewater treatment
public switched network.
puncture(d)wound
Pérez, L.
rest for a while
resultant voltage
rhaphoneis calcaravis
sacculus (pl.sacculi)
satyrisk
Saxifraga yezhiensis
seprase
sheathing
signalling key of pull type
split draft
spring lamb
Stokes,Sir Frederick Wilfrid Scott
take sth. ill
taltrimide
tangential close ray tracing
ten-thousandth
theta series W
throwing of switch under train
transform matrix
tydemania expeditionis
ultraviolet telescope
uncheckt
underwater laser
unrecoverably
Ust'-Barguzin
vastatin
windmill sail
Yankan, Khrebet
zillertalbahn