Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.

大多数专家先前提到的，都是在塔巴斯科海湾州托土盖罗遗址的一块石碑上，玛雅人用象形文字刻下的那个日期。

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An explosion at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico in April killed 11 men and caused the world's biggest civilian oil spill to date, before the wellhead on the sea floor was finally sealed in September.

4月里，英国石油公司在墨西哥湾的一口油井发生爆炸导致11人死亡，并在9月份被最终封堵之前造成了世界有记载最大一次民用石油泄露。

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So the idea of thousands of foreigners coming in, without employment or any definite return date, is deeply uncomfortable for Gulf states.

所以让数以千记得外国人进入，没有工作或者清晰的返回日期，对于海湾国家来说是感到深深的不安。

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It was on this date that an oil rig operated by British Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico exploded.

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To date, approximately 500 live turtles have been rescued during the Gulf oil spill, and more than 450 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil.

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The spill is one of the largest ecological disasters to date and threatens the many families dependent on the fishing industry in the Gulf.

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