环球慢速英语 埃克森公司瓦尔德斯号油轮原油泄漏事故(5)

Voice 1: The Exxon Company had to clean the spill¹. But they received help from the military² and people who lived in the area. Many teams of people worked to clean the coast and the surviving animals. The teams used different methods to clean up the oil. In some areas they burned oil floating on the water. Other crews³ used machines to gather the oil. But the oil and plants in the water damaged the machines. Some crews used chemicals to break down the oil. But the waves were not large enough to mix the chemical with the oil.

声音1：埃克森公司必须清理泄漏石油。他们得到了军队和该地区民众的帮助。许多团队努力清理海岸并救助幸存的动物。这些团队在清理石油时使用了不同的方法。在其中一些地区，他们燃烧浮在水面上的石油。其他团队则用机器收集石油。但是，石油和水中的植物损坏了机器。还有一些团队用化学物质去分解石油。但是，海浪不够大，不足以将化学物质和石油混合在一起。

Voice 2: Other teams used hot water at a high pressure to move the oil off the rocks back into the water. Workers would then collect the oil from the surface of the water. Some people even cleaned the oil-covered rocks by rubbing⁴ them with cloth. The oil travelled down the coast for more than a month. It took a very long time to clean the oil from the coast. Workers would clean an area, but then the ocean current⁵ would change. Oil would cover the clean areas again.

声音2：其他团队用高压热水去除水中岩石上的石油。然后工作人员会收集水面上的石油。有些人甚至通过用布擦拭的方法来清理岩石上的石油。石油在海岸扩散了一个多月的时间。清理海岸上的石油花费了很长时间。工作人员要先清理一个地区，可是洋流会变化。石油会再次覆盖干净的地区。

1 spill   

n.溢出，溅出，涌出，摔下，暴跌，溢出量，木片，小塞子；vt.使溢出，使散落，洒

参考例句：

• The coffee is so full that it might spill over.咖啡太满可能会溢出来。
• He took a spill when he rode the horse.他骑马时从马上跌了下来。

2 military   

n.军队；adj.军事的，军人的，好战的

参考例句：

• The area has been declared a closed military zone.这个地区已宣布为军事禁区。
• The king was just the tool of the military government.国王只是军政府的一个傀儡。

3 crews   

n.一群（或一帮、一伙）人( crew的名词复数 )；全体船员；（赛船的）划船队员；一队（或一班、一组）工作人员

参考例句：

• Fire crews refused to cross the picket line. 消防人员拒不冲破围厂队伍人墙。
• They are the stage crews for the new play. 他们是这台新戏的舞台工作人员。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 rubbing   

n. 摩擦, 研磨, 按磨

参考例句：

• This insect makes its strange noise by rubbing its back legs together. 这只昆虫摩擦它的两条后腿发出一种奇怪的声音。
• Jerry was already unhappy because he fumbled the ball,but his teammates kept rubbing it in. 本来杰瑞就很不高兴，因为他失了球，而他的队友们还一再提那件事。

5 current   

n.涌流，趋势，电流，水流，气流；adj.当前的，通用的，流通的，现在的，草写的，最近的

参考例句：

• Electric current is often powerful enough to kill a man.电流常强得足以致命。
• There is a story about her in the current number.最近一期上有关于她的故事。