Rough seas today prevented specially equipped ships from skimming oil off the water's surface.

今天汹涌的海浪使特别装备的船只无法撇去浮在水面上的石油。

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Top the car up with oil before you set off.

出发前给车加满油。

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They're drilling for oil off the Irish coast.

他们在爱尔兰沿海钻井采油。

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The wife of a laid-off oil-rig worker, who's used to him being away for weeks at a time, can't get a reprieve.

CNN: In Gulf oil disaster, cameras can't capture the human toll

Mindful markets and civil society will complete it as inexorably as innovators and capitalists got America off whale-oil lamps in the 1850s.

CNN: Freeing America from its addiction to oil

Now news of the off-shore oil find has provided a bubble of optimism and a hope that some lengthy wish lists will be addressed.

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