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
abastarding
aerial socket
aeronautical telemetering land station
Alcudia
alley cat
allionia incarnatas
ambi
approximately upper continuous
arati
art-gallery
Atalaia, Pta.da
atomol
automatic train speed restriction
auxo-action
balling on
Barcenillas
Bentzal tube
black bundle
boot leaf
bounded homogeneous domain
Brevibacterium lactofermentus
brushing test
Camors
chemiluminoimmunoassay
clamp-pulse generator
cyclic movement
cydney
detailed pending investigation
diploblastula
drug anaphylactic shock
employee services and benefits
endotoxie shock
facial line
failure detection and isolation
flag variable
geneveite (theisite)
geochryology
grease testing
guestchamber
hapepumine
high manganese steel
Hitchcock chair
hydraulic ram cylinder
hypercompute
Hyrrokin
immiserization
in doubtdoubt
individual clearing member
internal mandibular nerve
Lake Paringa
latch dog
leopard cub
light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
Ligularia curvisquama
load summary
Longwood Gardens
meliosma stewardii merr.
mild water
miodar
multilobed placenta
Myeik Kyunzu
nationwide
news bias
non-homogeneous deformation
nonparacompact
not care a doit
obanal setae
opsimose
orbos
Plas Newydd
play (sb's) request
Poa breviligula
pointed summer
polynuclear dye
prodegradant
quartzliteglass
re-entrancy
Sanskritic
show tunes
skimming system
skulkers
sodium phenylate
stimulated threshold
strepsipterans
symmetry list programming
Tepoto, I.
thermal simulating test
thermo-chemical treatment
thick sauce
three-strand rod mill
time-limits
traveling induction coil
Tuyuk
two-career
ulent
uncontrollable expenses
varve
Ventriculus sinister
volumetric mass transfer coefficient
welmish
womanhaters
work anchor