Rough seas today prevented specially equipped ships from skimming oil off the water's surface.

今天汹涌的海浪使特别装备的船只无法撇去浮在水面上的石油。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

youdao

They're drilling for oil off the Irish coast.

他们在爱尔兰沿海钻井采油。

《牛津词典》

The first was a huge oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara,California.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

I ended up in the newspaper the next day for having argued that they are way off on their investment opportunities because oil is such a volatile thing.

结果第二天的报纸就报导,我提出,他们在投资的选择上错得离谱,因为石油是易变的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Yet, they wanted to get clean and so what device they used was to take oil, typically olive oil, spread it on themselves, then get a scrapper, a metal scrapper, and scrap off the oil with it what was underneath the oil.

当他们想要保持清洁时,他们所使用的东西就是油,通常是橄榄油,把橄榄油抹在身上,然后拿一个刮板,金属刮板,把污垢和油一起刮下来

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But they also just had these huge discoveries of oil off their shores underwater, pretty deep down.

WHITEHOUSE: Building a Clean Energy Economy

The charity said the birds were found covered in thick black fuel oil off Ramsgate and Rye last week.

BBC: RSPCA collects oil spill birds off Kent coast

In 2007, it discovered an estimated 40 billion barrels of oil off shore.

FORBES: What Forbes Readers Think About Brazil's Petrobras