VOA常速英语2007年-S. Korea Expected to Declare Oil Spill Coastlin
时间：2019-02-01 作者：英语课 分类：VOA常速英语2007年（十二月）
Seoul
10 December 2007
South Korean officials say they will declare a long stretch of the country's western coastline a disaster area. The move makes residents and businesses eligible 1 for compensation as an enormous oil spill devastates 2 wildlife and fishing resources along the coast. As VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul, even with thousands of workers mobilized, the cleanup is expected to take months.
More than 100 boats and nearly 9,000 soldiers, police and civilians 3 fought to limit the damage along the west coast of South Korea Monday as oil from a punctured 4 tanker 5 washes ashore 6 near the city of Taean.
South Korean officials say more than 10,000 tons of crude oil are coating a 45-kilometer long stretch of coast after a barge 7 accidentally punched holes in a giant oil tanker on Friday.
The economic and environmental costs are expected to soar, as the area is dense 8 with fisheries and marine 9 wildlife. The owners of several hundred shellfish farms say their entire stocks have been wiped out. Costs from a much smaller oil spill in 1995 reached $96 million.
Ji Hun-geun, of the Korean Federation 10 for Environmental Movements, is one of the many volunteers at the site. He said the surface of the sea is all black, and it is incredibly difficult to dispose of the oil by hand. He says he and other volunteers are finding dead birds everywhere, and he believes there are many areas where not a single bird has survived.
South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said the government will do its best to spare residents the worst effects of the accident. He said the government is ready to compensate 11 those who have been victimized by the accident.
South Korean law provides for the distribution of millions of dollars in state subsidies 12 and relief payments after authorities formally label a region a special disaster area.
Experts say cleaning up an oil slick of this size is likely to take about two months. The residual 13 damage from oil absorbed into the environment is expected to last far longer.
Criticism is already pointing in two directions, and is likely to grow louder in the days ahead: first, at the South Korean Samsung Heavy Industries Corporation, which operated the barge that punctured the tanker. Second, at the government, which is accused of being inadequately 14 prepared for such a disaster, despite the lessons from the 1995 oil spill.
- He is an eligible young man.他是一个合格的年轻人。
- Helen married an eligible bachelor.海伦嫁给了一个中意的单身汉。
- Strip mining devastates whole regions, leaving bare and useless ground. 露天矿产毁坏全部区域，离开赤裸和无用的地面。 来自互联网
- Prostitution is a profession that devastates the lives of young women. 雏妓这个职业是对女孩子极度的摧残。 来自互联网
- the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
- At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。
- Some glass on the road punctured my new tyre. 路上的玻璃刺破了我的新轮胎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- A nail on the road punctured the tyre. 路上的钉子把车胎戳穿了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 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。
- The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前，孩子们就上岸了。
- He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
- The barge was loaded up with coal.那艘驳船装上了煤。
- Carrying goods by train costs nearly three times more than carrying them by barge.通过铁路运货的成本比驳船运货成本高出近3倍。
- The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里。
- The path was completely covered by the dense foliage. 小路被树叶厚厚地盖了一层。
- 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。
- It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
- Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。
- She used her good looks to compensate her lack of intelligence. 她利用她漂亮的外表来弥补智力的不足。
- Nothing can compensate for the loss of one's health. 一个人失去了键康是不可弥补的。
- European agriculture ministers failed to break the deadlock over farm subsidies. 欧洲各国农业部长在农业补贴问题上未能打破僵局。
- Agricultural subsidies absorb about half the EU's income. 农业补贴占去了欧盟收入的大约一半。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- There are still a few residual problems with the computer program.电脑程序还有一些残留问题。
- The resulting residual chromatism is known as secondary spectrum.所得到的剩余色差叫做二次光谱。
- As one kind of building materials, wood is inadequately sturdy. 作为一种建筑材料，木材不够结实。
- Oneself is supported inadequately by the money that he earns. 他挣的钱不够养活自己。