A rig pounds an inlet out of the coast, sending rubble rattling down a pipe to the sea.

一个操控装置敲击着海滩上突出的入海口，把碎石咔哒咔哒送进通向海里的管子。

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Two days after the explosion, the rig sank to the ocean floor, and a pipe connected to the well on the sea floor broke.

在爆炸发生后两日，钻井平台沉入海底，连接海床油井的输油管道破裂。

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Meanwhile, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration constructed a dome-and-pipe system to contain the spread of oil at the sea floor.

同时，国家海洋和大气环境管理署建造了一个穹顶管道系统（dome-and-pipe system）以遏制海床上原油的扩散。

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Criticism of the disaster has sprung in part from decisions made over the design of the BP well, which used a single pipe, known as a "long string", that ran from the sea floor to the bottom of the well.

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The Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering project, or SPICE, is a British academic consortium that seeks to mimic the actions of volcanoes like Pinatubo by pumping particles of sulfur dioxide, or similar reflective chemicals, into the stratosphere through a twelve-mile-long pipe held aloft by a balloon at one end and tethered, at the other, to a boat anchored at sea.

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