1·If you happen to spill some gas or oil on the floor, newspaper will help absorb the spill and can prevent a permanent stain on concrete or a soft spot in your asphalt drive.
如果你碰巧将一些汽油或机油洒在地板上，报纸将帮助你吸收倾洒物并且可以保护你的物品避免永久染色或在沥青车道上留下独特的记号。
2·Apple was briefly the most valuable company in the world earlier this year, knocking oil giant Exxon Mobil off the top spot.
苹果公司在今年早期一度曾是世界最高市值公司，超越了第一位的石油巨头埃克森美孚。
3·Although hydrocarbons have long been known to fluoresce, or glow, under ultraviolet light, this may be the first time the technology has been used outside a lab to spot oil.
很久以来人们就知道烃类在紫外线下能发出荧光或其他光亮，但这或许是第一次在实验室外，应用这一技术来探测石油。
4·HIDDEN behind a row of trees and a rusted barbed-wire fence on a rutted dirt road in the Ecuadorean jungle, Shushufindi 61, a pit in which oil waste is dumped, is hardly a beauty spot.
在厄瓜多尔舒舒分地61区的热带丛林中，一排排的树木和生锈的带刺铁丝围栏之后，藏匿着一处石油废料倾倒坑，周围肮脏的地上尚留有车辙。
5·Of course, a rise in the spot price of oil triggered by a change in expectations about future prices will cause a decline in the current quantity of oil that consumers demand.
当然，由未来油价预期引发的现货油价上涨会促使当前石油需求量下降。
6·Oil slicks are notoriously difficult to spot in natural-color (photo-like) satellite imagery because a thin sheen of oil only slightly darkens the already dark blue background of the ocean.
浮油出名的难以被发现在天然色卫星图像上，因为稀薄光泽的石油仅仅略黑于深蓝色的大海。
7·If the oil is located very close to the spot where the Sun's reflection would appear, it usually looks brighter than nearby clean water in the MODIS images we routinely publish.
在我们定期发布的MODIS图像中，如果油污非常靠近会出现日光反射的地方，它总是比周围的干净水域要明亮。
8·The Americans have long pursued an "oil-spot" strategy-establishing areas of stability that would, with time, expand.
美国长久以来奉行“油点(oil - spot)”战略，即确立稳定与时相展的地区。
9·In early 2009 the six month futures price for oil was twenty dollars higher than spot price.
在2009年初，6个月石油期货价格比现货价格高出20美元。
10·This special cleaning liquid should get that spot of oil out.
这种特殊的清洗液应该可以洗掉那块油渍。