布什说，“艾克”飓风使得墨西哥湾沿岸炼油厂和输油管道运转中断，造成汽油涨价，全国各地民众加油的费用因此增加。
He says across the country, Americans are paying more for gasoline - the result of storm-caused disruptions in the operations of refineries and pipelines along the Gulf Coast.
跟墨西哥湾和佛罗里达比起来，美国东海岸很少会遇到像上周六的“艾琳”这样猛烈的飓风。
HURRICANES that tear up America's east coast in the way Irene did this weekend are rare compared with those that slam into the Gulf coast and Florida.
艾弗·雷兹和同事找出了撞击的位置——位于墨西哥湾的长达一百二十英里宽的希克苏鲁博陨石坑。由此让越来越多的人接受了此观点。
Alvarez and colleagues traced the impact to the 120-mile-wide Chicxulub crater in the Gulf of Mexico, an idea that won increasing acceptance afterward.
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