英语听力精选进阶版 17142

 

WBR: Shell gets go-ahead to drill in Arctic 12 May 15

Tue, 12 May 15

Oil firm Royal Dutch Shell has won approval from the US Department of Interior to explore for oil in the Arctic. The approval depends on Shell also getting the go-ahead from other regulators, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Clive Tesar from the WWF Global Arctic Programme in Canada explains why environmental campaigners oppose the move. But Dr Christopher Oakes, North America analyst¹ at Oxford² Analytica says programmes like this can actually be good for the US economy. Also on the programme, economist³ Roger Bootle from Capital Economics and Andrew Simms, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation discuss the UK's shock election result, what it tells us about the voters and what challenges the government now faces. And the BBC's Theo Leggett goes below the streets of London to visit a long-disused underground railway station, which the city's transport authority wants to lease out to commercial tenants⁴.

1 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• 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。

2 Oxford   

n.牛津（英国城市）

参考例句：

• At present he has become a Professor of Chemistry at Oxford.他现在已是牛津大学的化学教授了。
• This is where the road to Oxford joins the road to London.这是去牛津的路与去伦敦的路的汇合处。

3 economist   

n.经济学家，经济专家，节俭的人

参考例句：

• He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
• He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。

4 tenants   

n.房客( tenant的名词复数 )；佃户；占用者；占有者

参考例句：

• A number of tenants have been evicted for not paying the rent. 许多房客因不付房租被赶了出来。
• Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担。