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英语课
By Scott Stearns
Riyadh
16 May 2008


Saudi Arabia is refusing a U.S. request to increase overall oil production as a way to lower record high energy costs. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports from Saudi Arabia where U.S. President George Bush met Friday with King Abdullah.


It is the second time in four months that President Bush has come to Saudi Arabia asking King Abdullah to boost overall oil production to help drive down U.S. gasoline prices.


And it is the second time since January that the president got the same answer: No.


Soaring gasoline prices in the United States are partly to blame for the country's economic slowdown.


Speaking to reporters before this trip, President Bush said he would tell the Saudi king that U.S. gas prices are even higher now than they were in January. He said demand is so high relative to supply that there is just not a lot of excess capacity.


Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi says supply and demand are in balance. He told reporters in Riyahd that the country did boost output by 300,000 barrels a day last week but only to make up for declining production from Venezuela and Mexico.


 


Al-Naimi says Saudi Arabia is already investing $90 billion over the next four years to increase production and is doubling the capacity of a refinery 1 in Texas. "So how much more does Saudi Arabia need to do to satisfy the people who are questioning our oil practices or our oil policy?" he asked.


U.S. National Security Adviser 2 Steve Hadley says Saudi officials told President Bush that they do not believe an overall increase in production would dramatically reduce prices at U.S. pumps.


Hadley says Saudi officials argue that higher prices are driven more by uncertainty 3 in the global market and the lack of refining capacity for the quality of oil most readily available. Hadley says the Bush Administration will take that explanation to its own analysts 4 to see if it conforms with what they think.




n.精炼厂,提炼厂
  • They built a sugar refinery.他们建起了一座榨糖厂。
  • The purpose of oil refinery is to refine crude petroleum.炼油厂的主要工作是提炼原油。
n.劝告者,顾问
  • They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物
  • Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
  • After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后,压力开始产生影响了。
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
学英语单词
a mine layer
ACC (auxiliary core cooling)
act according to one's capability
Adam Faith
adat
adjustment by direction
almacenes
assualt
bilateral kinesthetic difference
black beer
block multiplex mode
browser application
carbon pile regulator
center cylinder of pin holes
cohomology group with local coefficients
Collum vesicae biliaris
coup de maitre
crack penetration
crepe embossing
downgyved
embelia laeta papilligera
enterotypes
ethylmenthol
external cooling
farncombe
fault block oil and gas pool
flagroots
flashforwards
full wave rectifier tube
genus ophioglossums
glumella
gryposis unguium
guy-derrick crane
gypsum plate
Haliun
hand-operated stacking crane
handi-craftsman
hangdogs
horizontal dynamic amplitude
imbricate
immature cell
intestinal lipoma
Klavier
laphria alternans
length of stays
long-horned grasshoppers
long-liner
Lu Jiuyuan
Lukhovitsy
Lule Burgas
mains-borne disturbance
maranyls
MC2 (multigroup constant codes)
monolithic microlens arrays
mud-settling pit
multicoes
new greeks
nitric ether
off-floor order
oil-gauge pipe
on one's knee
p-diazosulfanilic acid
Pan Americanism
passenger train controller
pay tax according to regulations
penas
pendulous plant
Philadelphia
post-marketings
r.f.i.
registering statoscope
reservoir behavior
reservoir routing
reststrahlen absorption
rudder stock
run someone off his legs
Sallgast
sea food products
sectionalized
self generation
shipping tribunal
shotty
should-should
sight window (glass)
soldierfish
special project
stojan
strip-shelterwood cutting
superheavy weight
Telescriptor
tetrabutyl tin
Tetrastigma lineare
timing mark sensor element
touquet
tragacantha shrub
tunnel cell
universal photo
updraft type
wareroom
wet atmospheric corrosion
white-slaver
zavis