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
ablation test of low temperature ablator
absolute sales
acerina
Acraniata
additional loss
annular tube
aryballo
at the cinema
balestri
beak-irons
bewailable
bob weight
boron absorption technique
Chinese idle
clark belt
completionism
corn chips
cytopharmacology
date train wheel support
decemfoliate
deflection-modulated indicator
dendritic transport
diameter of transfer
differentially pumped vacuum system
dispersion structure
docent
Drawn Over Mandrel
Dry Cargo Packing
dual diffused MoS integrated circuit
EGRA
equivalent hydrostatic pressure
family Dacrymycetaceae
Fanny May
fiberglass reinforced plastics boat
fibro-adamantinoblastoma
Gentiana asparagoides
genus Trombicula
Gestapuron
goes south
got physical
hand duster
heavy material
Horlivka
hypolon cable
illuminisms
inescapability
installation processing control
javelinier
jaw-winking syndrome
Jomada
Kawau I.
kibbeh
Krasis
kurung
lalage melaschistos intermedia
lavik
Marin
mark bit
mean compressive strength
moving plates of variable condenser
neomgcin
nondeviators
nonpolar monomer
offence of prosecuting false charges
once-through lubrication
openframework
organoferric
Parcels Office
pay over the odds
phacochoeruss
phosphate rock uncalcined
phymatorrhysin
portable transmitter
prelighted
Prunus serrulata
related-party
remote calling system
required thrust
running against the sea
saddle coil
sand verbena
scientific-progress
servo-analog computer
Shchëlkovskiy Rayon
Sickledex
subschema control system
supermastergroup
takes a hike
Tappan.
teeming
tip-to-tail
towfish
tragus
trailed moldboard plow
unindents
Vaginae synoviales digitorum manus
velocity shooting
viola caninas
W type engine
water thrush
Wi Fi Protected Access
wire check