1. They set a system in wrong directions, and it's like steering a supertanker.
他们在错误的方向设置了一个系统,这就像驾驶一艘超级油轮。

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2. Engineers think that an iceberg up to 11 kilometres long and 2 kilometres wide could be transported if the tug pulling it was as big as a supertanker.
工程师们认为,如果拖船像超级油轮一样大,那么长11公里、宽2公里的冰山就可以被运输出去。

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3. A supertanker continues to gush oil off the coast of Spain.
西班牙海岸附近的一艘超级油轮仍在大量漏油。

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4. Demography is like a supertanker; it takes decades to turn around.
人口问题就像一个超大油轮,它需要几十年才能改变方向。

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5. All of it could be stored in a vault 60 feet square, or a supertanker.
一个边长为60英尺的正方形金库房或是一艘大型油轮就可以存放所有的黄金。

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6. An oil slick caused by a spill from a supertanker has hit several beaches.
一艘超级油轮的石油泄漏形成的浮油膜已经影响了好几个海滩。

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7. The American economy is like a supertanker that, even in calm waters, changes direction very slowly.
美国经济就像一艘超级油轮,即使海面风平浪静,想要改变航向还是很缓慢。

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8. Andrew Mwangura, the head of the east African Seafarers Association, said the supertanker was headed south-east this evening.
东非海员协会负责人Andrew Mwangura说,“这艘超级油轮这天晚间,正向东南方向航行。”

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9. Saudi Arabian supertanker, the Sirius Star, was seized by Somali pirates about 450 nautical miles off the Kenyan coast on November 15th.
11月15日,沙特阿拉伯的“天狼星”号巨型油轮在距肯尼亚海岸450海里的地方被索马里海盗劫持。

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10. A Saudi Arabian supertanker, the Sirius Star, was seized by Somali pirates about 450 nautical miles off the Kenyan coast on November 15th.
11月15日,沙特阿拉伯的“天狼星”号巨型油轮在距肯尼亚海岸450海里的地方被索马里海盗劫持。

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11. Looking more like a beached supertanker than the usual stone-walled pagoda-hatted plant, it is intended to pour out 10m litres of whisky a year.
这座工厂摆脱了通常的宝塔顶加石墙的样式,看起来更像一条搁浅的超级油轮,其目的是争取威士忌年产量达到1000万公升。

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12. DURING a public meeting in Istanbul on April 7th Barack Obama argued that the American ship of state is more like a supertanker than a speedboat.
四月十七号在伊斯坦布尔举行的一次公共会议上,巴拉克•奥巴玛争辩说与其说美国像一艘高速游艇,不如说它是一艘巨型油轮。

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13. Among the captured vessels are a Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million of crude oil, the Sirius Star, and a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying some 30 Soviet-era tanks.
在被海盗劫持的船只中,包括一艘沙特超级油轮“天狼星号”,船上载有价值1亿美金的原油,此外还包括一艘乌克兰货船,船上载有约30辆苏式坦克。

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14. Whatever it was that shook a 260,000-ton Japanese supertanker as it sailed through calm waters between Oman and Iran just after midnight Wednesday, it was not a freak wave.
星期三午夜过后,日本一艘重达26万吨的超大型油轮驶过阿曼与伊朗之间的平静水域时遇袭,不管是什么袭击了它,绝不可能是巨浪。

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15. The Somali pirates have hijacked more than a dozen ships and crews, including a Saudi Arabia-owned supertanker laden with crude oil. They want $10 million in ransom for the tanker.
来自“非洲之角”——索马里的海盗在国际海运航道上为非作歹,他们已经劫持了十几艘船,并将船员扣为人质;其中包括一艘沙特阿拉伯石油公司下属的超级油轮。

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16. Last month, pirates extracted millions of dollars for the release of a Saudi supertanker, the Sirius Star, hijacked 450 miles out to sea in November carrying about $100m worth of oil.
上个月,海盗们在榨取了上百万美元的赎金后释放了沙特阿拉伯的超级游轮——天狼星号。 它在11月距海岸450英里处被劫持时携带了价值1亿美元的石油。

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17. Last month, pirates extracted millions of dollars for the release of a Saudi supertanker, the Sirius Star, hijacked 450 miles out to sea in November carrying about $100m worth of oil.
上个月,海盗们在榨取了上百万美元的赎金后释放了沙特阿拉伯的超级游轮——天狼星号。 它在11月距海岸450英里处被劫持时携带了价值1亿美元的石油。

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