VOA标准英语2012--Gas Shortages Test Patience of Motorists Following Sandy
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十一月)
Gas Shortages Test Patience of Motorists Following Sandy
A New York City policeman directs a motorist to the end the line at a gas station in Brooklyn. And quite a line it is. Drivers here are waiting five hours to get to the head of it. Police are on hand to maintain order and make certain no one cuts in line or exceeds the $50 purchase limit. That amounts to less than 50 liters.
For taxi drivers, the time spent in line is time not earning fares. And rationing 1 means they cannot drive as long as usual. Abdel Kadr says cabbies should be provided special access to gas, because they serve people.
“When you stay in a fuel line for about six or seven hours, you’re exhausted 2, you’re falling asleep in the cab; you can’t perform the right way," he said.
Many people are walking to gas stations with canisters. Some need fuel for a generator 3 others for a motorcycle. Tony, a construction worker, needs to get his wife to the airport and says it is quicker to wait an hour on foot rather than five hours in a car.
“And I do that a couple of times, I can get to the airport and back, real good. Then I come home and park till everything eases up," he said.
Tony says people at this station have been calm. But flaring 4 tempers have been reported elsewhere. Michael Perez is a construction worker in Manhattan.
“Everybody has a reason to be upset but, you know, some people are just lashing 5 out more than others. So, I just, kind of, keep in mind that people are upset. There's no reason for me to add on anybody else's stress. I'm already stressed as it is," he said.
New York officials tell people they'll feel relieve soon.
Senator Charles Schumer said, “Lines will get shorter. Hot tempers will cool. The prices will go down and your normal commutes 6 will resume. It won’t happen all at once but it will happen in the very near future.”
Officials explain the gas shortage occurred because superstorm Sandy has prevented tanker 7 ships from entering harbor to make deliveries.
The federal government is trucking 45-million liters of fuel to the region, including to New Jersey 8, where motorists in hard hit areas will be allowed to buy gas on alternate days based on a car’s license 9 plate number.
- Wartime austerities included food rationing and shortage of fuel. 战时的艰苦包括食物配给和燃料短缺。
- Food rationing was abolished in that country long ago. 那个国家早就取消了粮食配给制。
- It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长，到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
- Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。
- All the while the giant generator poured out its power.巨大的发电机一刻不停地发出电力。
- This is an alternating current generator.这是一台交流发电机。
- A vulgar flaring paper adorned the walls. 墙壁上装饰着廉价的花纸。
- Goebbels was flaring up at me. 戈塔尔当时已对我面呈愠色。
- The speaker was lashing the crowd. 演讲人正在煽动人群。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The rain was lashing the windows. 雨急打着窗子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- She commutes from Oxford to London every day. 她每天上下班往返于牛津与伦敦之间。
- Barbara lives in Oxford and commutes. 芭芭拉住在牛津，通勤往来。
- 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。