1. At this juncture: 关键时刻
2. The blue on the chart represents the trajectory (轨迹) of the spill. The darker shades are the heavier pockets of oil
3. Move off from day to day operation
4. Mammoth task: 巨大的
5. ham-handed : 笨手笨脚, 咸猪手:)
6. grossly incompetent: 非常无能力的:the clean-up is ham-handed
7. gushing geyser (间歇喷泉) under the sea
8. sounds like gross incompetence or negligence or, or just pure mismanagement
9. To use booms and, and mops and dispersants (散油剂) and burning and so forth, skimming with shrimp boats, where's the imagination and the scale? One of the things that the oil industry does best is it knows how to scale (衡量) things, to do the big jobs very well
10. sop up oil: 吸油 vacuum, skim, scoop, sop up oil
11. I learned this week that Canada and -- as one country, for instance -- does spills into their water to practice in the event that this would happen. That is not allowed in the United States (good for Canada. Us needs this kind of fire drill)
12. Get beaten up : 痛殴, 毒打
13. Gave us latitude: 自由, 自由范围
14. She was given considerable latitude in how she spent the money.
15. Moratorium: 正式的延缓, 暂停; 延期偿付; 延缓偿付期 (key word of the debate)
And they don't like the moratorium on offshore drilling, and they're saying, "We are being hit twice. We've been hit by the oil spill and the threat to tourism, and now we're being hit by the moratorium. And if we go ahead with this moratorium, the jobs will move across to Brazil or elsewhere in the world." And that's something that they do feel that the federal government could do for them is keep the oil industry there.
16. Vortex of politics: 漩涡
17. Shakedown: Slang Extortion of money, as by blackmail
18. Fallout: 放射尘; (核爆炸后的)沉降物, informal: side-effects; secondary consequences
19. Slush fund: 贿赂基金
20. A fund raised for undesignated purposes, especially:
a. A fund raised by a group for corrupt practices, such as bribery or graft.
b. A fund used by a group, as for entertainment.
21. Livelihood: 生计,谋生
22. resurrects (使(某种做法)复兴)symbolic (象征的符号): Each day the cable networks showcase images of more oil belching from the ocean floor resurrects symbolic parallels to the '79 through '81 Iranian debacle (崩溃)
23. empathize with ordinary people: 有同感
24. music to the ears of those up to their kneels in oil. But we've been up to our chin in water, and we're tired of it
25. unprecedented and unforeseeable: 前所未有的, 不可预见的
26. Don’t pile on here. 堆积; 蜂拥
27. Too cozy with the old industry
28. Systemic disaster: 系统的; 全身的 disaster
29. Watch dog <->lapdog (pet dog)
30. Boosterism (热心拥护)to complacency(自鸣得意)
When an agency responsible for safety turns into a lapdog and not a watchdog, then, unfortunately, boosterism creates complacency, and complacency leads to disaster
31. We can’t ad hoc to everything: ad hoc非正式 ad hoc arbitration 临时仲裁
32. It’s fragmented into bits and pieces
33. Bioethics: 生物伦理学(探讨在器官移植, 遗传工程, 人工授精等科学研究中所涉及的伦理问题)
2. The blue on the chart represents the trajectory (轨迹) of the spill. The darker shades are the heavier pockets of oil
3. Move off from day to day operation
4. Mammoth task: 巨大的
5. ham-handed : 笨手笨脚, 咸猪手:)
6. grossly incompetent: 非常无能力的:the clean-up is ham-handed
7. gushing geyser (间歇喷泉) under the sea
8. sounds like gross incompetence or negligence or, or just pure mismanagement
9. To use booms and, and mops and dispersants (散油剂) and burning and so forth, skimming with shrimp boats, where's the imagination and the scale? One of the things that the oil industry does best is it knows how to scale (衡量) things, to do the big jobs very well
10. sop up oil: 吸油 vacuum, skim, scoop, sop up oil
11. I learned this week that Canada and -- as one country, for instance -- does spills into their water to practice in the event that this would happen. That is not allowed in the United States (good for Canada. Us needs this kind of fire drill)
12. Get beaten up : 痛殴, 毒打
13. Gave us latitude: 自由, 自由范围
14. She was given considerable latitude in how she spent the money.
15. Moratorium: 正式的延缓, 暂停; 延期偿付; 延缓偿付期 (key word of the debate)
And they don't like the moratorium on offshore drilling, and they're saying, "We are being hit twice. We've been hit by the oil spill and the threat to tourism, and now we're being hit by the moratorium. And if we go ahead with this moratorium, the jobs will move across to Brazil or elsewhere in the world." And that's something that they do feel that the federal government could do for them is keep the oil industry there.
16. Vortex of politics: 漩涡
17. Shakedown: Slang Extortion of money, as by blackmail
18. Fallout: 放射尘; (核爆炸后的)沉降物, informal: side-effects; secondary consequences
19. Slush fund: 贿赂基金
20. A fund raised for undesignated purposes, especially:
a. A fund raised by a group for corrupt practices, such as bribery or graft.
b. A fund used by a group, as for entertainment.
21. Livelihood: 生计,谋生
22. resurrects (使(某种做法)复兴)symbolic (象征的符号): Each day the cable networks showcase images of more oil belching from the ocean floor resurrects symbolic parallels to the '79 through '81 Iranian debacle (崩溃)
23. empathize with ordinary people: 有同感
24. music to the ears of those up to their kneels in oil. But we've been up to our chin in water, and we're tired of it
25. unprecedented and unforeseeable: 前所未有的, 不可预见的
26. Don’t pile on here. 堆积; 蜂拥
27. Too cozy with the old industry
28. Systemic disaster: 系统的; 全身的 disaster
29. Watch dog <->lapdog (pet dog)
30. Boosterism (热心拥护)to complacency(自鸣得意)
When an agency responsible for safety turns into a lapdog and not a watchdog, then, unfortunately, boosterism creates complacency, and complacency leads to disaster
31. We can’t ad hoc to everything: ad hoc非正式 ad hoc arbitration 临时仲裁
32. It’s fragmented into bits and pieces
33. Bioethics: 生物伦理学(探讨在器官移植, 遗传工程, 人工授精等科学研究中所涉及的伦理问题)
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