Suttles said BP's official estimate is based on the visual observation of oil flowing from the barrel, and "how much oil is on top of the sea".

Suttles说BP的官方估计是建立在从桶中流出来可见的原油上的，还有“多少油是浮在海的表面的”。

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On a slow accumulation of gas, due perhaps to slight overload, gas produced by decomposition of insulating oil accumulates in the top of the relay and forces the oil level down.

在气体慢积累模式中，可能由于轻微过在，绝缘油分解产生的气体在继电器的顶部聚集，迫使油位下降。

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On top of the oil bust, Canada’s other commodity exports, such as lumber, are also suffering collapsing demand.

除了这场石油衰退，加拿大的其它商品出口，例如木材，也正在经受需求下降的考验。

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The price of oil was voted the third top story of the year.

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The fascinating part about this layer is that it solves the problem for phospholipids about how to exist in water when half of you wants to be in oil, and that the water soluble part of the top leaflet here, of the top points up into the water, and the fatty acid chains point down.

这层膜的迷人之处在于,它解决了磷脂,如何存在于水中和油脂中的问题,水溶性的顶端部分,向上插入水中,而脂肪链则指向下

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Meanwhile,on Capitol Hill, top executives of other major oil companies told lawmakers their companies would not have drilled the well the way BP did.

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The boss of Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov, has said that he has had assurances that oil is at the top of the agenda in Moscow's negotiations with Washington on what to do with Iraq.

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Back in December of 2009 Iraq invited the top Oil Companies of the world to come in and bid on the oil drilling rights.

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The simple fact is that the bottom half of American income earners are losing oil consuming power to the top quarter of Chinese income earners and the top one tenth of Indian income earners.

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