The supply of oil can be shut off unexpectedly at any time, and in any case, the oil wells will all run dry in thrty years or so at the present rate of use.

石油供应可能会随时意外中断；不管怎样，以目前这种消费速度，只需30年左右，所有的油井都会枯竭。

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The schoolboy was glad to be shut of math class this morning.

这个学生今天上午逃了数学课感到很高兴。

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The chain reaction that actually runs the reactor can be shut off in a matter of seconds.

实际运行反应堆的链式反应可以在数秒左右被关闭。

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Earlier this month CIA director Panetta banned the use of contract - that is,non-employee - interrogators and ordered the agency's network of secret prisons to be shut down.

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Now when Virginia Woolf writes that Milton's bogey has shut out the view of his female readers, she seems to be suggesting that the specter of Milton blinds women to the things that they should be seeing, the most important truths out there in the world.

当佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫写道弥尔顿的惑众谣言遮挡了,她的女性读者的目光时，她似乎是在说,弥尔顿的幽灵让女性对她们应该看到的,东西视而不见，这些东西正是世间最重要的真理。

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But in citing the power of what she claims to be this Puritan bogey, Virginia Woolf really suddenly reveals, I think, how difficult it is even for her to shut out entirely the real -or it might just be the bogus--power of John Milton.

但是通过指出这她称之为清教徒式的妖言的力量，佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫的确突然间向人们展示了，我想，即使是她，想要完全抵御弥尔顿的切实存在的力量,-也有可能仅仅是蛊惑人的妖言--是非常困难的。

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In addition to social shunning, those critical of the profession may also be shut out of making a post-retirement living.

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Mr Delors himself, in a seminal report of 1989 launching the process of monetary union, warned about the dangers of economic imbalances and the risk that states could be shut out of bond markets.

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