This technique takes advantage of the fact that sound travels faster through the salt than the surrounding soft sediments, such as in the US Gulf Coast.

这种技术利用了这样一个事实：声波在盐岩层中传播要比在周围的软沉积物中传播得快，例如在美国的墨西哥湾岸区。

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BP has already spent close to four billion dollars on clean-up costs and compensation claims and has promised to set up a 20-billion-dollar fund to pay victims of the disaster along the US Gulf Coast.

英国石油公司已经花费了近四十亿美元用于清扫工作的花费和索赔工作并承诺将设立200亿美元的基金来赔偿美国海湾沿岸灾难的受害者。

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Through its influence on tropical winds feeding into the Atlantic, el nino also helps to reduce both the number and severity of hurricanes hitting the east coast of the US and the Gulf of Mexico.

它的影响使热带风不断进入大西洋，厄尔尼诺也有助于减少肆虐美国东海岸和墨西哥湾的飓风数量并减轻其发生时的烈度。

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International is interested in wells in the Rockies and the US Gulf Coast.

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Second, any waterborne imports are going to come into these same terminals and through pipelines from the US Gulf Coast.

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The spill has renewed debate over a proposal to build another pipeline from western Canada to the US Gulf Coast.

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