As with many retail companies these days, some computer manufacturers are burning the midnight oil to add a green sheen to their products.

就像当下的很多零售公司一样，一些电脑制造商为了给他们的产品上披上一层所谓“环保”的外衣而绞尽脑汁。

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For now, the firm has teamed up with an oil company, Royal Dutch Shell. The computer-maker plans to dot a prospecting area with thousands of wireless sensors.

目前，惠普公司已经与荷兰皇家壳牌石油公司携手合作，这家计算机制造商计划在一块勘探区域内散布数以千计的无线传感器。

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Yet at the airport, Ms Rakoczy may have crossed a young Briton bound for Shanghai, a Chinese computer programmer moving to Canada or a Portuguese worker on his way to oil-rich Norway.

然而，Rakoczy有可能在机场能遇见一个前往上海的年轻英国人，一个前往加拿大的中国计算机程序员，或者是一个去石油丰富的挪威的葡萄牙工人。

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And the method of doing this is to immerse the computer itself into mineral oil.

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Results of a computer simulation released Thursday show oil leaking from the Gulf of Mexico could reach up the Altantic coast and far out into the ocean by early summer.

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Aramco, the national oil company where she was working as a computer-security consultant at the time, wasn't pleased, either.

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