Engineers had spent days pumping heavy drilling fluid into the leaking well head on the ocean floor in a high-pressure bid to smother the gushing crude and ultimately seal the well with cement.

工程师们数日来一直向海底的泄漏油井泵入大量的钻探泥浆，希望用高压堵住喷涌的原油，最后用水泥封死油井。

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Both water and blood require a lot of pumping. Those pumps are heavy and need electrical power.

水和血液都需要大量加以泵压；这些泵既笨重又需电能。

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Crews are slowly pumping heavy drilling mud into a cap on the top of the well, to push down hydrocarbons that are already present in the well pipe.

工程人员正在缓慢地将特殊泥浆注入井口上的控油罩，将油井管道中已经形成的碳氢化合物压在下面。

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And in the event of a major flood, the MTA will deploy heavy duty pumping trains to remove water trapped in the tunnels beneath the rivers.

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The effort, called a "top kill, " involved plugging the ruptured deep-sea well by pumping heavy drilling fluid into it from the surface, nearly a mile above.

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The 20-year-old from Queensland said she had listened to music to calm her nerves before the race -- not the pumping heavy rock favoured by many athletes but country and western.

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