Several hundred yards of boom line has been set up on the north side of the island to try and contain the oncoming oil spill.

在岛的北面数百码的警戒线已经拉起来为应对即将到来的海面浮油做好充分准备。

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Boom most often looks like huge, floating sandbags strung together in a line, and either absorbs oil or deflects it toward a collection point.

浮动档栏往往是连在一条线上的巨大浮动沙袋，要么能够吸收石油，要么使石油向某个石油收集点聚集。

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Retailers, buoyed for so long by a protracted consumer boom, are now in the front line of a consumer bust.

零售商，在漫长的消费热潮中漂了这么久，现在却处于大甩卖的第一线。

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The only other time we've seen a boom like this was right after World War II and that's shown by this line here; that wasn't as big.

我们可以看到,类似的繁荣,只在第二次世界大战之后出现过,就像这条线所显示的,这个增量不大

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Though he didn't gussy up his music, he knew how to keep people engrossed all the same: A master of stride and boogie and bebop, he'd string his listeners along just by dancing around the theme, and then at just the right moment, he'd lower the boom, delivering a line so dazzlingly improbable that the common response was a gasp.

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The feature is nice to have, especially if you somehow manage to bust the boom mic somewhere along the line.

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Elsewhere another boom was set up as a second line of defense.

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