If the results are encouraging, they may soon be able to cap the gusher that has been spewing as much as 60,000 barrels a day into the Gulf and has defied BP's many efforts to contain it.

如结果令人鼓舞，他们或许将很快能够终止油井的泄漏。这个油井目前每天向墨西哥湾泄漏高达60,000桶原油，英国石油公司多次努力均未能终止泄漏。

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Discern of the coming on of years, and think not, to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

留心你底年岁底增加，不要永远想做同一的事情，因为年岁是不受蔑视的。

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The old chap should find that CharlesV was not to be defied; that when he got his teeth into a thing, he did not let IT go.

这老头儿早晚会知道查理五世是藐视不得的；他一旦抓住什么东西就死不放手。

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Convention, however, is meant to be defied.

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The Austrian is fortunate to be able to walk let alone ski, yet he has defied doctors and his critics to clinch the title for a fourth time.

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