CNN 2010-09-11

Essentially¹, what the company is saying that there is not one reason why this disaster happened and that the blames essentially lies on several people, including not only BP, but Transocean and the company Halliburton. So this is not much different from what you remember back in May when the all three company executives went before on Capitol Hill and started pointing fingers at each other. BP pointing to several factors that led to the disaster happening. One of them being the cement, a mixture that was sent down into that oil well, which should have kept the oil and natural gas from flowing up. That they say is Halliburton's responsibility in it, they messed that up. There's also some questions about pressure readings in the well, in the blowout preventer, in the hours leading up to the explosion. BP says that some of its employees and some Transocean workers didn't read that properly. Independent report that investigation² being worked on as we speak. That is part of the government investigation, involving the Coast Guard and the former agency known as the Minerals Management Service. But that won't be due out, Jude, until sometime in December.

 

We've also got an investigation team up where the orgin cause of the fire, where we believe the orgin of the fire is or was. They were investigating cause in the orgin. We don't have, I don't have any information yet on what the cause of the fire is. We had 20 missing people reported. Of those, 8 people are still there open investigations³. Of those 8, many of those people didn't evacuate⁴. What we are doing at this time, we are doing follow up with them, contacting relatives, also sending officers up to do well search exact the residents.

 

I think people have a fatigue⁵, and in general when it comes to disaster relief. But if I can say that the thing I have learned the most in being here is that we tend to focus on one issue at a time because that seems to be what people can absorb and care for. But the Pakistan as you know is so complex because it has not just the people in flood may eight million affected⁶ now but it still has 1.7 million Afghan people who are here. And they have been displaced from the flood.

 

Double encounter. This is unusual. This one right here is RX-30 and see it passed within about 150,000 miles of earth, a little before 6:00 a.m.. And this one here account RF-12. They expected to pass within 50,000 miles just after 5 p.m. today. It's not visible from naked eye. You're not gonna feel it. And they don't pose a threat. But NASA is saying that it's a reminder⁷ that they needs to be close monitoring of this kind of thing.
 

1 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

2 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

3 investigations   

（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究

参考例句：

• His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
• He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。

4 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

5 fatigue   

n.疲劳，劳累

参考例句：

• The old lady can't bear the fatigue of a long journey.这位老妇人不能忍受长途旅行的疲劳。
• I have got over my weakness and fatigue.我已从虚弱和疲劳中恢复过来了。

6 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

7 reminder   

n.提醒物，纪念品；暗示，提示

参考例句：

• I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
• It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。