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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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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The demolition of the Third Avenue Elevated subway line set off a building boom and a white-collar influx, most notably of young educated women who suddenly found themselves free of family, opprobrium, and, thanks to birth control, the problem of sexual consequence.

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This, they hope, will enable it to cash in on the boom now being enjoyed by Kashgar, 490km along the new line to the north-west.

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The line-up was completed by guitarist Del Marquis (Derek Gruen) and drummer Paddy Boom (Patrick Seacor) - the only straight man in the group.

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