British Petroleum is still racing against time to build a funnel to help contain the busted oil rig which is gushing oil into the Mexican Gulf - but the energy giant is unsure whether it will work.

破损的钻油井还在向墨西哥湾泄漏原油。英国石油公司仍在争分夺秒地建造一个疏导设备来控制油井漏油，但这个能源巨头并不确定这套设备是否能解决问题。

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He used a funnel to fill the bottle with oil.

他用漏斗往瓶子里灌油。

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High oil prices have allowed state and private investors across the Gulf to funnel billions of dollars into property markets, infrastructure projects and, more recently, foreign-exchange speculation.

高涨的油价使得海湾各国的国有和私人投资者能将上百亿美元资金投入房地产市场、基础设施项目，不久前更是投入了外汇投机交易。

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In 1972, when Texaco completed construction of a pipeline to funnel oil to the Pacific coast, Ecuador instantly became the second-largest oil exporter in Latin America, after Venezuela.

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Nigeria could funnel its oil revenues into a more efficient financial system that could provide capital to the private sector to build roads and power stations and expand private enterprises, such as farming.

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Critics have also accused Sonangol -- which is both concession-granter and regulator of the industry -- of acting as a way to funnel part of the oil revenues to the political elite.

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