时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2017年1月


英语课

 


AZUZ: OK. Up next, a pipeline 1 that shuttles gasoline to the U.S. Southeast has been shut down. Gas prices are going up in several states.


Gas shortages are possible in some areas.


Any if these sound familiar? The same pipeline was temporarily closed in September, causing the same problems. A leak led to an 11-day shutdown at that time.


Earlier this week, a construction crew in Alabama accidentally hit the pipeline with a piece of heavy equipment. It caused a massive explosion, killing 2 one worker and injuring five others.


This pipeline, the Colonial Pipeline, is important, because it runs from refineries 3 in Houston, Texas, all the way up to terminals in New Jersey 4.


One oil analyst 5 characterized it as the aorta 6 of East Coast gasoline supplies. Governors in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina are taking steps to try to avoid gas shortages and keep prices from shooting up. The pipeline could reopen this Saturday.



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 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
3 refineries
精炼厂( refinery的名词复数 )
  • The efforts on closedown and suspension of small sugar refineries, small saccharin refineries and small paper mills are also being carried out in steps. 关停小糖厂、小糖精厂、小造纸厂的工作也已逐步展开。
  • Hence the sitting of refineries is at a distance from population centres. 所以,炼油厂的厂址总在远离人口集中的地方。
4 jersey
n.运动衫
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
5 analyst
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
6 aorta
n.主动脉
  • The abdominal aorta is normally smaller than the thoracic aorta.腹主动脉一般比胸主动脉小。
  • Put down that jelly doughnut and look carefully at this aorta.放下手头上的东西,认真观察这张大动脉图片。
学英语单词
accidental collision
air-water syringe
alave
amphiclinous hybrids
anjelywood
arthrentasis
biological hazard potential
butt-welded drill
cable stitches
cak
capillovirus apple stem grooving virus
cavass
chorioangioma
Coal-mouse
computer aided product design
covariant spinor of first rank
deciampere
deferred-prosecution
disrayed
divergence angle
doubling dilution
drug-runners
Duogastrone
el aaiun (laayoune)
El Azufre
Epidropal
external equalizer
finite rank
frequency plot
Friedewald
fungia (pleuractis) moluccensis
geranylgeraniol
gresse
guaranteed annual wage plan
heat resistance furnace
heated with sand
high-density lipoprotein
high-grade oil
hollow-faced bat
horizontal flyback time
hydrothermal resources
ICTMS
inorganic matter
island hopping
jointer gauge
kazickas
kookishness
leather bag
Legionellales
Lin Zexu
linear block codes
literal key
luni-solar precession
magnetic circular dichroism
matching plate
mercuric naphtholate
metagynic (loew 1895)
multistage-expansion
nail something down
offreth
optical disturbance
palsky
positive-part stein-rule estimator
preductules bile
primary permanent tissue
PTMFD
pulmono-cerebral syndrome
radiotransparen
reserve assets
retheness
ring counter circuit
Rogowski loop
roll-back point
Sai Ong Hue
saw tooth voltage
separation failure
simmermon
single-concept
single-level formula
soft pan goods
specification pointer
spring-mass system
stone-slab
suction press roll
Sunday-trading
synoptic index or diagram
take sb. at advantage
take to flight
taurocholeic acid
Teller, Edward
top bearing lock nut
towing painter
translate from
truck farms
vari-slope screen
virus hoax
walt whitman bridges
Waverley Novels
welding generator with splitting pole
without visibility
zip