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


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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
active account
active discipline
aerial camera cone
agriculturise
air escape main
all-geared headstock
anticyclonic eddies
Ascaris suum
Australianized
balance reading glass
beer pump
Binhon Chaung
bister
brachychilia
brussels sproutss
butyl group
cavity flow theory
chemical addition tank
cholangiographies
contact laminating
core lightener
corinnes
cotton aphid
count modulo-N
dameson
disacchride
distributed Bragg reflection type laser
el jicaro
fakeries
fearmongered
floss candy
foundery alloy
function of finite order
Gdps
Ghats
gonidium
got away with murder
Grain Futures Act
gray-market
hangdogs
heteromyidaes
high-levels
hitchmen
inlet pipe
input program
intimately
isba
it depends
kneading table
krabacher
low water lunitidal interval
mackly
Marplon
mcdermid
medium density hay press
menstrual periods
microgenetics
microjourneys
mixed oxide
moving iron relay
nuclear plant
open-account facility
order ticket
overabound
Pabellón
pellet stockpile
Pentium microprocessor
penurity
physical twins
pulsation hypothesis
purportless
purpura athrombopenic
resolution chart
roll-on/roll-off ship
samedan (samaden)
sedation
shaft orientation survey
single beamer
spiracularia
split-jet injector
St-Aubert
standard steel section
stander
super heated steam kiln
surdine
sweet melon vines
the eye of typhoon
The United States Coast Guard
thunderclouds
tip somebody off
total profit contribution
Tourane
transmission and distribution network
tumbler cap
two-part counterpoint
us classic
vaccinationists
vertical velocity indicator
wallmounted
West Leichhardt
wet gas purifier
Winston Glacier