时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2016年12月


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Big question mark now over the Dakota Access Pipeline 1, a controversial oil pipeline. It would run from North Dakota to Illinois. The Obama administration originally approved the plan. But after months of protests by local native American groups and activists 2 who joined them, the U.S. Army Corps 3 of Engineersputthe pipelineon hold, saying it wanted to have more discussion about it and this week, the government said it had decided 4 not to allow the final piece of the pipeline to cross under the Missouri River at North Dakota's Lake Oahe.


The Obama administration says alternative pipeline route should be considered. But the incoming Trump 5 administration could change that decision.


SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT:Drumbeat, cheers and tears, the sound of victory for the Standing 6 Rock Sioux and thousands of others gathered to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. This massive humanityleaving offthe grid 7 joined by thousands of military veterans helped exert so much political and legal pressure, it effectivelyforcedthe pipelinetobe rerouted.


CHIEF ARVOL LOOKING HORSE, KEEPER OF WHITE BUFFALO 8 CALF 9 PIPE:People say that, now, this is a make it or break it. I guess we made it.


SIDNER:The pipeline was almost to the river when it was halted by the Army Corps of Engineer so they could take another look at its path.


Sunday, they decided it was a no go. For months, the Sioux Nation had been demanding the project be scrapped 10. They were convinced the pipeline carrying crude oil underneath 11 the Missouri River would one day leak, poisoning the drinking water of millions down river.


But then, Energy Partners responded, saying this is simply a political move by the Obama administration that won'tstopthe pipelinefromgoing under the river. They contend the latest decision changes nothing, they have every legal right to continue. And with that, the celebrations could be short-lived.



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 activists
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 corps
n.(通信等兵种的)部队;(同类作的)一组
  • The medical corps were cited for bravery in combat.医疗队由于在战场上的英勇表现而受嘉奖。
  • 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 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
5 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
6 standing
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
7 grid
n.高压输电线路网;地图坐标方格;格栅
  • In this application,the carrier is used to encapsulate the grid.在这种情况下,要用载体把格栅密封起来。
  • Modern gauges consist of metal foil in the form of a grid.现代应变仪则由网格形式的金属片组成。
8 buffalo
n.(北美)野牛;(亚洲)水牛
  • Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's. 亚洲水牛比美洲水牛温顺些。
  • The boots are made of buffalo hide. 这双靴子是由水牛皮制成的。
9 calf
n.小牛,犊,幼仔,小牛皮
  • The cow slinked its calf.那头母牛早产了一头小牛犊。
  • The calf blared for its mother.牛犊哞哞地高声叫喊找妈妈。
10 scrapped
废弃(scrap的过去式与过去分词); 打架
  • This machine is so old that it will soon have to be scrapped. 这架机器太旧,快报废了。
  • It had been thought that passport controls would be scrapped. 人们曾认为会放开护照管制。
11 underneath
adj.在...下面,在...底下;adv.在下面
  • Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
  • She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣,里面套着一条连衣裙。
学英语单词
acidization
affinisations
Alpinia katsumadai Hayata
apparatus for lathe centers
armature sliding type starting motor
audies
barrow pit
Beaver Creek
bialaphos
bill holdings
blast shutter
boat-handling gear
bright mild steel countersunk head wood screw
bucket ladder gredger
carrell
chateau margaux
claroes
concrease
conditional probability law
Corixa Grande(Curiche Grande)
corn-dolly
creul
cylindrical equalarea projection
dating retained earnings
destabilise
doubly straight line
electrical repair
energy-constant
Engelhardt value
engineering economy
English-speaking
equipotent
f-m
flight maneuver
fluid-bed process
fore-horse
forkier
fractional culture
genus aerobacters
give my best regards to sb
give sb a good scolding
Gladwin County
Gleason bevel gear shaper
goose-steppings
have your feet on the ground
holosystolic
huanuco
hupehenizine
hydroxy-methylbenzene
hyperosmolar hyperglycemic nonketoic coma
hypoplasmic obesity
isocadinene
K'areli
Ka Long O, Song (Beilun He)
Kilakkarai
Labrador dog
land reclamation
lateral pass
line-oriented macro scheme
main deflection
Marconaflo slurry system
Minter City
mummianize
naphthenic crude
Niellim
nonalgebraic
nonscanning
northern bilberry
peanut oil
perfectionless
photochemistry
poisers
progressive clear strip system
prophecise
redress life
right as rain
ruthenium diselenide
satellite-radio
satinised
shuttle run
single-dial control
Sipi
sketching in
slab longitudinal
source host
space-wise
state space construction
stationary dredger
Sterkspruit
stretched wire method of aligning
take responsibility
teasement
test-wise
Tioor, Pulau
to hit the headlines
Tractus spinocerebellaris anterior
ultrafemme
underexpression
unlitten
vented fuse
Vernonia cumingiana