Oil covered the grass, but by mid-July new growth had sprouted.

浮油覆盖了水草，但是，在七月中旬，又有新的水草生长发芽了。

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Workers wipe oil from marsh grass in St. Tammany Parish, La.

在路易斯安那州圣塔马尼教区，工人们正在擦掉沼泽地水草上的污油。

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Oil droplets lit by lasers swirl in a wind tunnel around a flowering blade of grass.

风洞中激光照亮的油滴围绕着草叶周围打着转。

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National park ranger Dan Kiger says oil poses a special risk to mangroves and sea grass, for example.

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Environmental experts say the oil is likely to kill the grass in this marsh.

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To keep the sand from blowing away, most courses rake three or four gallons of vegetable oil into each green once or twice a year. (Not too long ago, they used motor oil.) Sand greens are about one-third the speed of grass, but the oil quickens them up a bit, too.

WSJ: Sand-Greens Golf: A Game Lives On in the Great Plains

He played semi-pro football on Pittsburgh fields so devoid of grass they were sprayed with oil to keep the dust from rising.

BBC: How pro football hooked America

They will soon bioengineer bacteria to melt oil out of tar sands, turn grass into diesel fuel and scavenge natural resources of every kind out of low-grade, thinly dispersed deposits.

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