时间:2019-01-03 作者:英语课 分类:VOA2004(下)--世界经济


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By Carrie Giardino


Major oil companies operating in Nigeria's oil-rich southern region say they will not give in to threats of attacks on their facilities and employees by militias 2.


The threats are being issued by the leader of the Niger Delta 3 People's Volunteer Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, who says all foreigners should leave the Delta region by October 1 or risk attacks.


The group issued a statement accusing Nigeria's largest oil producer, Royal Dutch Shell, of collaborating 4 with the federal government in what the group calls acts of genocide. The Nigerian government has been cracking down on oil thieves who have been illegally siphoning oil from pipelines 5 in the region.


A spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell, Simon Buerk, says oil production is suffering due to the unrest and threats of attacks in the region.


"We have also, we don't talk in details about security measures, but amongst the things we've done, we have curtailed 6 movement of staff and supplies on the creeks 7 by boat. We have had a technical problem at one flow station, which produces about 28,000 barrels of oil per day and because we've restricted movement by water in the interest of safety, we are presently unable to get staff up to that particular flow station to rectify 8 the problem."


Mr. Buerk says the Niger Delta region of Nigeria accounts for just over 10 percent of the company's total worldwide oil production. But he says Shell would not speculate on the possibility of pulling out of the region, or directly comment on the recent threats.


The violence in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producing nation, has helped spur the recent increase in worldwide oil prices, which have hit record highs.


A spokesman from Rivers State, Emmanuel Okah says the Nigerian government will not allow the militia 1 leader's threat to be carried out and urged foreign oil companies to remain calm and to continue production as usual.


An armed uprising last year in the region led a number of oil companies to temporarily shut down operations, and halted nearly 40 percent of Nigeria's oil output.


Carrie Giardino for VOA news in Abidjan.
注释:
collaborate 合作,通敌
genocide 有计划的灭种和屠杀
unrest 不安的状态,动荡的局面
curtail 缩减,减少
speculate on 考虑,推测



n.民兵,民兵组织
  • First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面,其次是民兵。
  • There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。
n.民兵组织,民兵( militia的名词复数 )
  • The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
  • The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网
n.(流的)角洲
  • He has been to the delta of the Nile.他曾去过尼罗河三角洲。
  • The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.尼罗河在河口分岔,形成了一个三角洲。
合作( collaborate的现在分词 ); 勾结叛国
  • Joe is collaborating on the work with a friend. 乔正与一位朋友合作做那件工作。
  • He was not only learning from but also collaborating with Joseph Thomson. 他不仅是在跟约瑟福?汤姆逊学习,而且也是在和他合作。
管道( pipeline的名词复数 ); 输油管道; 在考虑(或规划、准备) 中; 在酿中
  • The oil is carried to the oil refinery by pipelines. 石油通过输油管输送到炼油厂。
  • The oil carried in pipelines. 石油用管道输送。
v.截断,缩短( curtail的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Spending on books has been severely curtailed. 购书开支已被大大削减。
  • Their public health programme had to be severely curtailed. 他们的公共卫生计划不得不大大收缩。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.小湾( creek的名词复数 );小港;小河;小溪
  • The prospect lies between two creeks. 矿区位于两条溪流之间。 来自辞典例句
  • There was the excitement of fishing in country creeks with my grandpa on cloudy days. 有在阴雨天和姥爷一起到乡村河湾钓鱼的喜悦。 来自辞典例句
v.订正,矫正,改正
  • The matter will rectify itself in a few days.那件事过几天就会变好。
  • You can rectify this fault if you insert a slash.插人一条斜线便可以纠正此错误。
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a shadow cabinet
account-opening
after conning position
agricultura
alt-az
alveolus dentis
author abstract
bar disintegrator
barrel organ
berge's inequality
boat capacity
bohai bay
carbaborane
cascade testing technique
chronic infantile convulsion
coach-load
cocked switch
compound signal element
control current
control equipment room
corn islands
counter-threats
cross-pit system
dark red heat
deforming agent
diamond-star
drove home
dubus
east-siders
effect of criminal law
electrolytic deburring machine
explosion hatches
finically
finishing rolls
flowering raspberry
foraminiferous
forest faunal group
Frontier County
FSIOP
Giraudoux, Jean
global online change
go-go-go
gould
guiding collar
Haarlemers
heteroxenous parasite
hires
immigration status
instruction marker control
Kalimantan
kanzi
karst gas explosion
knop yarn
ladderman
Lamarckianism
learning-employment sequence
left-luggage office
life-processes
limnometer
Maastricht Criteria
magnetic automatic calculator
marine radio
Mass-John
master production schedule (mps)
memoirists
Menemen
network service
non-equilibrium process
nonhipsters
olfactronics
opposite attract
polarographic wave
power-assisted hydraulic braking
preference changes
quartre
ramp beam
red, white, and blue
resolutioner
risograph
robert time filter
Saignelegier
seasonal profile
send off something
shafers
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squeezable waveguide
Standard attribute
strung up
sulfinyldiacetic acid
syncolporate
thermal imager
time transformer
to call upon
tractory
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treadplates
trescas
under-triage
ungraded school
Verkhnyaya Tarka
wire guy
Zero-One-Infinity Rule