CNN 2010-10-14

We hope to finish today, Tuesday, which is day 69 since our miners got trapped. We are really working as fast as possible to get these miners out. We are not really about declaring mission accomplished¹. We are basically met the necessary conditions to carry out the rescue.

The ban on deep-water drilling will be lifted to what the government is saying the Obama administration is that the drilling can resume and they believe they have with calling a high bar in place for safty, specifically if you remeber in the wake of BP oil spill, much of controversial was about the device called the blowup preventer. Essentially², the last sfaty valve design to shut down the well if there's an underwater explosion or any underwater malfunction³. How that didn't work in case of the BP, that's what led to the biggest safty review in past 5 months itself. The government says it's now prepare to lift the ban.

Emergency services say that an emergency dam that they're building to try to prevent a second flood of toxic⁴ mud is nearly complete and should be completed by the morning. Right now, there is a crack of the wall of the reservoir about a half a meter high and 20 meters wide, and authorities say they don't know when it may collapse⁵, that wall may collapse, but they expect it to happen at some point. There are 500,000 cubic meters of toxic mud still encased in the reservoir which, if the wall does break, might be unleashed⁶ again in a second flow on this village. The chief executive of aluminum⁷ company, MAL, whose reservoir it was that leaked the initial toxic spill has been arrested.

I was at the drop zone have a couple of pool when we saw two canopies⁸ held, and the guy went straight towards the trees, away from the drop zone.

"Drop on the right."

The 35-year-old New Hampshire man found some dangling⁹ in 75 feet in the air.

"It's a very new situation, it's about 100 feet, 75 feet off the ground, this is the worst case in the air."

Staff spends 3 threatening hours  dangling from the trees.

"He was fine, he just said 'oh, man, I want to get out here!' That's what you heard, Oh, get me down."

1 accomplished   

adj.有才艺的；有造诣的；达到了的

参考例句：

• Thanks to your help,we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.亏得你们帮忙,我们才提前完成了任务。
• Removal of excess heat is accomplished by means of a radiator.通过散热器完成多余热量的排出。

2 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

3 malfunction   

vi.发生功能故障，发生故障，显示机能失常

参考例句：

• There must have been a computer malfunction.一定是出了电脑故障。
• Results have been delayed owing to a malfunction in the computer.由于电脑发生故障，计算结果推迟了。

4 toxic   

adj.有毒的，因中毒引起的

参考例句：

• The factory had accidentally released a quantity of toxic waste into the sea.这家工厂意外泄漏大量有毒废物到海中。
• There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.爆炸后有毒化学物质可能会进入大气层。

5 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

6 unleashed   

v.把（感情、力量等）释放出来，发泄( unleash的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The government's proposals unleashed a storm of protest in the press. 政府的提案引发了新闻界的抗议浪潮。
• The full force of his rage was unleashed against me. 他把所有的怒气都发泄在我身上。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 aluminum   

n.(aluminium)铝

参考例句：

• The aluminum sheets cannot be too much thicker than 0.04 inches.铝板厚度不能超过0.04英寸。
• During the launch phase,it would ride in a protective aluminum shell.在发射阶段，它盛在一只保护的铝壳里。

8 canopies   

（宝座或床等上面的）华盖( canopy的名词复数 )； （飞行器上的）座舱罩； 任何悬于上空的覆盖物； 森林中天棚似的树荫

参考例句：

• Golf carts with bright canvas canopies wandered the raingreen fairways. 一场雨后显得愈加葱绿的高尔夫球场草地上，散放着一些带有色彩缤纷的帆布华盖的高尔夫小车。
• Rock permitted seven canopies, cornices floors, decorative glass, Ambilight, momentum magnificent, magnificent. 七檐佛殿背倚山岩，楼层飞檐翘角，殿顶琉璃装饰，流光溢彩，气势恢宏，蔚为壮观。

9 dangling   

悬吊着( dangle的现在分词 )； 摆动不定； 用某事物诱惑…； 吊胃口

参考例句：

• The tooth hung dangling by the bedpost, now. 结果，那颗牙就晃来晃去吊在床柱上了。
• The children sat on the high wall,their legs dangling. 孩子们坐在一堵高墙上，摇晃着他们的双腿。