时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2018年1月


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伊朗油轮与香港货船相撞 发生石油泄漏


Paris, France, is just over 40 square miles in area. That's also about the size of an oil spill that's spreading in the East China Sea.


It started when an Iranian oil tanker 1 collided with a freighter from Hong Kong. That happened on January 7. The oil ship caught fire, and stayed afloat, burning, until it exploded and sank a week later on January 14th.


Officials believe all of its 34 crew members died in the accident. The tanker was carrying 136,000 tons of condensate oil. It's a type used to jet fuel and it's lighter 2 in color than the thick black crude oil that's been seen in other oil spills.


But though environmentalists say some of the oil on board the ship probably burn in the fire, their concern that what remained could still hurt marine 3 life in the area, like whales and porpoises 4. They're also worried that the fuel that power the ship will leak as well, and that could make things worse. It's very toxic 5.


The oil slick, China says there are four of them, almost doubled in size this week. Other boats are in this area of the East China Sea, working to clean up the oil and environmental group Greenpeace expects any contamination to stay relatively 6 close to the sunken ship, though winds have pushed the spill east toward Japan.



1 tanker
n.油轮
  • The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
  • Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。
2 lighter
n.打火机,点火器;驳船;v.用驳船运送;light的比较级
  • The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色,色调明朗了一些。
  • The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。
3 marine
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
4 porpoises
n.鼠海豚( porpoise的名词复数 )
  • A shoal of porpoises are well on the feed. 一群海豚正在吞食。 来自辞典例句
  • In 1928 some porpoises were photographed working like beavers to push ashore a waterlogged mattress. 1928年有人把这些海豚象海狸那样把一床浸泡了水的褥垫推上岸时的情景拍摄了下来。 来自辞典例句
5 toxic
adj.有毒的,因中毒引起的
  • The factory had accidentally released a quantity of toxic waste into the sea.这家工厂意外泄漏大量有毒废物到海中。
  • There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.爆炸后有毒化学物质可能会进入大气层。
6 relatively
adv.比较...地,相对地
  • The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
  • The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
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A. B. R.
accumulation of electric energy
acid absorber
ammonium hydrosulfide
Angelica cartilaginomarginata
Angised
annellidic
arteria labialis superiors
articles of co-partnership
atractylis macrocephala koidz.
badi
balanced-piston governor valve
bearing up pulley
behavioral potential
belladonna extract
bill-jobbing
bilo
bladder pipe
booster relay
bottle-openers
bowdlerizer
bryozoologist
calyptobranchiata
chain code following
chebulagic acid
clickers
cluster point of filter base
computational problem
congenital dactylus varus
conical fluidized bed
control circuit with prescribed overshoot
core lifter case
coupled model
crash-helmet
cuttest
debasers
decamillennial
decontextualizing
detect from
determination of vertical dimension
displacement head
Dworr
dyep
egregious folly
eligibility for tax credit
emblazoner
feather veined
fistula fenestration
forward-transfer signal
genus Melogale
geomagnetic coordinate
gray absorber rod
half-class
hammer blade mill
hardcards
hoisl pan
house service turbo generator
interracialist
ionogenic surfactant
jacquard grisaille
journal velocity
kebb
keygen
Massora, Massorah
Mazowieckie, Województwo
Mendelssohn Seamount
mental health promotion
Miguelópolis
modelling error
molecular link
Monocolpopollenites
nonlinear regression
number of weaned
over shipment
overatropinization
palmidrol
panel on complaints
permanent object
persistent irradiation
phantom bone disease
placidious
reactivity index
reversed brass
rod carrier
rule out the possibility of
saddle feathers
sales presentations
seed stand
shield hood
slowing-down model
snow mat
soldering by dipping
steeply-dipping
tetranitrocarbazole
trunk girth
Ukr.
verification center
virus crystal
waveguide electro-optic prism
yourfirstname
z-day