If efforts to dam the Shell oil spill prove unsuccessful the final amount of oil leaked into the North Sea could be four times greater than it is at present, the company admitted on Wednesday.

周三壳牌公司承认，如果阻止壳牌原油泄漏的努力以失败告终，北海泄漏原油总量可能达到目前泄漏量的四倍多。

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Shell Oil, frustrated last year by lawsuits filed by environmentalists and Alaskan natives, is eager to start exploiting its leases in the Beaufort Sea.

壳牌石油公司急不可待地要在他们租赁的波弗特海区开始开采，去年，该公司因被环境学家和阿拉斯加土著居民所起诉而备受挫折。

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Its abdomen is soft, so a hermit crab USES the empty shell of a sea snail to protect itself.

它的腹部是软的，所以寄居蟹用一个空的海洋蜗牛的壳来保护自己。

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Shell to sea is made up of locals and activists some Irish some from foreign shores but who have one thing in common, that is that the stench of treachery in the County of Mayo is so obscene to them , that standing on the side lines holding their noses is just not an option .

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The first part of the operation to stop the Shell pipeline leaking oil into the North Sea has, according to the company, been successful so far.

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In Galveston, he taught me to hear the sea in a shell.

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