石油工人

The Chinese were kidnapped October 18 in southern Kordofan province -- home of much of Sudan's oil industry and adjacent to violence-wracked Darfur.

9名中国工人是10月18日在苏丹科多番省南部遭到绑架，这个地方是苏丹石油业相当大的储量区域，与饱受暴力摧残的达尔富尔相邻。

Can you assure me that my son and the sons and daughters of this nation will not die protecting the interests of big oil companies and the Kuwaiti emirates who are now living in luxurious exile?

石油公司巨头以及流亡在外的科威特贵族们现在过着奢华的生活，你能向我保证我儿子和其他工人的子女在保卫这些人的利益的同时能够活下来吗？

A safety officer checks on workers on Southeast Asia's biggest offshore oil platform.

在东南亚一家最大的陆上石油平台上，一名安全检查官正监督工人干活。

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation estimated that a minimum of 201,000 gallons spilled at Prudhoe Bay, the largest U.S.

石油泄漏事故是由英国石油公司阿拉斯加分公司的一名工人，于3月2日在普拉德霍海湾西部发现的。

NEW YORK - Being an actuary, calculating statistics to determine probability and risk, is the best job to have in 2010, while working on an oil rig as a roustabout is the worst, according to a study released on Tuesday.

据周二公布的一项调查数据显示：从事统计数据计算进而测定概率和风险的保险精算师，是2010年最紧俏的工作，同时最不被看好的行业是从事石油钻塔工作的码头工人。

NARRATOR: A coal miners' strike and an oil crisis plunged the country into darkness.

旁白：煤矿工人罢工和石油危机时英国陷入了黑暗之中。

Workers skimmed oil from the ocean's surface and had to hose down goo-covered beaches, forcing the oil into traps for collection.

工人们从海洋表面把石油刮到，搜集石油的吸附设备上。

To the extent that workers take it on the chin, accepting higher oil prices as a temporary tax increase that lowers their real take-home pay, the collateral damage will be smaller. The rigidity of the 1970s economies, where union power and indexed contracts meant wages were unyielding, only magnified the adverse effects of oil shocks.

如果工人的忍受能力较好，接受高价石油起的短期税收增加，减少他们的实际收到的工资的话，经济的总体损失会相对小些。1970年代的经济没有目前这么灵活，那时有工会力量，及那些与通胀相联系的合同，这意味着工资上缺少灵活性，而这些则增大了石油震荡的负面作用。

Mexico's state oil company also began evacuating workers from oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

墨西哥国家石油公司也开始疏散在墨西哥湾石油钻塔上的工人。

Oilmen drill for oil in deserts,in mountains and under the sea.

采石油的工人从沙漠里、山峰上、大海底钻取石油。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷