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 supertanker ['supɚ`tæŋkɚ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 超级油轮, 巨大油轮



    supertanker
    [ noun ]
    the largest class of oil tankers
    <noun.artifact>


    Tank ship \Tank ship\, Tank vessel \Tank vessel\ . (Naut.)
    A vessel fitted with tanks for the carrying of oil or other
    liquid in bulk; -- called also {tanker}. A tank ship of very
    large capacity is called a {supertanker}.
    [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

    1. The bacteria also were used in June, after the supertanker Mega Borg exploded 57 miles off Galveston.
    2. Shipping executives said the 325,000-ton Spanish supertanker Barcelona continued burning and "listing heavily,' two days after the Iraqi raid on the Larak, but the vessel had been beached and was not expected to sink.
    3. An explosion ripped through the pump room of a Pakistani-owned supertanker today while it was in dry dock, and some deaths and injuries were reported, Persian Gulf shipping sources said.
    4. The transportation secretary said the supertanker ripped into the reef at about 15 knots, or about 17 miles per hour.
    5. Dec. 12 _ A Navy warship and television helicopter rescue 40 people from a burning supertanker, which had been attacked by an Iranian gunboat.
    6. As the Norwegian supertanker was transferring crude oil to the smaller tanker Framura on Saturday, an explosion set fire to the larger vessel.
    7. In Greece, authorities described the drought situation as the worst in 100 years and set up a plan to ship water to Athens by supertanker if the need should arise.
    8. The ship owners have not said whether the supertanker will be repaired or scrapped.
    9. The supertanker was loaded with 38 million gallons of oil.
    10. Fireboats worked through Saturday night spraying water to cool the decks of the supertanker, said Petty Officer Richard Miled in Galveston.
    11. 'It could take several days to cool the vessel down and transfer such a large amount of oil onto another supertanker,' he said.
    12. At other oil ports, supertanker cargoes must be transferred to smaller ships _ the process that was underway when the Mega Borg exploded.
    13. As fires raged aboard the Mega Borg off Texas on Saturday, the research unit was already providing cleanup and Coast Guard crews with vital data predicting the course and effects of a slick from the Norwegian supertanker.
    14. The wrecked supertanker Mega Borg on Friday began a two-month trip to Pakistan, where it will be broken into scrap.
    15. Mike Squires, a spokesman at the International Chamber of Shipping, dismissed concerns about supertanker age limits and said the debate is stoked by commercial interests wanting to sell new vessels.
    16. In Iraqi military terminology, a "very large maritime target" usually means a supertanker sailing off Iran's coast.
    17. The disclosure came as a Texaco-owned supertanker, reportedly carrying Iranian oil, struck a mine while it was approaching an anchorage in the Gulf of Oman.
    18. Tehran said its forces downed three of the raiding Iraqi aircraft, and an Iranian speedboat fired rockets at a Spanish supertanker.
    19. (However, American League president Lee MacPhail reinstated the home run.) One year ago: The re-flagged Kuwaiti supertanker Bridgeton sustained damage after hitting a mine in the Persian Gulf.
    20. But recently a notion somehow has developed that the economy now will alter course or speed with alacrity, more in the manner of our small outboard motorboat than any supertanker.
    21. They're in line for the biggest revision," said attorney Warren Marwedel, who represented a number of oyster syndicates, two French regions and a number of other plaintiffs affected by the spill from the Amoco Cadiz supertanker.
    22. A judge today recommended that Amoco Corp. be ordered to pay about $115 million to France and nearly 90 French citizens or businesses damaged by millions of gallons of oil spilled in a 1978 supertanker accident.
    23. Over the years, the economy has behaved much like a supertanker.
    24. The British-flagged supertanker was damaged in an Iraqi air raid in May.
    25. One year ago: Joseph Hazelwood, former captain of the Exxon Valdez supertanker that leaked nearly 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, surrendered to authorities in New York.
    26. The supertanker burned for more than a week some 57 miles offshore from Galveston.
    27. But the disaster officials feared was a collision, not the series of explosions that rocked the 853-foot supertanker Mega Borg on Saturday, killing two crewmen and leaving two others missing and presumed dead.
    28. The Port of Portland announced Friday that the damaged supertanker Exxon Valdez would arrive within six weeks for inspection if state environmental officials allow it.
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