俺從這期學到的東西，多謝愚公~~~

1. At this juncture: 關鍵時刻

2. The blue on the chart represents the trajectory (軌跡) 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 : 笨手笨腳, 鹹豬手:)

6. grossly incompetent: 非常無能力的:the clean-up is ham-handed

7. gushing geyser (間歇噴泉) under the sea

8. sounds like gross incompetence or negligence or, or just pure mismanagement

9. To use booms and, and mops and dispersants (散油劑) 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 : 痛毆, 毒打

13. Gave us latitude: 自由, 自由範圍

14. She was given considerable latitude in how she spent the money.

15. Moratorium: 正式的延緩, 暫停; 延期償付; 延緩償付期 (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: 漩渦

17. Shakedown: Slang Extortion of money, as by blackmail

18. Fallout: 放射塵; (核爆炸後的)沉降物, informal: side-effects; secondary consequences

19. Slush fund: 賄賂基金
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: 生計,謀生

22. resurrects (使(某種做法)複興)symbolic (象征的符號): 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 (崩潰)

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, 不可預見的

26. Don’t pile on here. 堆積; 蜂擁

27. Too cozy with the old industry

28. Systemic disaster: 係統的; 全身的 disaster

29. Watch dog lapdog (pet dog)
30. Boosterism (熱心擁護)to complacency(自鳴得意)
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 臨時仲裁

32. It’s fragmented into bits and pieces

33. Bioethics: 生物倫理學(探討在器官移植, 遺傳工程, 人工授精等科學研究中所涉及的倫理問題)

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• the problems is how many words you will remember after a day ,a -help15- ♀ (21 bytes) () 06/21/2010 postreply 08:12:48

• Good question.~ -lilac09- ♀ (384 bytes) () 06/21/2010 postreply 08:31:32

• thank you. so we need immerse ourself in English. oh, i want to -help15- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/21/2010 postreply 08:57:13

• cry! : ) -help15- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/21/2010 postreply 08:58:11

• 裏拉老師學得又快又細。 多謝分享讀書筆記，學習，收藏了。 -EnLearner- ♀ (52 bytes) () 06/21/2010 postreply 19:26:47