tar balls

常见例句

Tar balls continue to wash up on beaches.
焦油球继续被冲刷到沙滩上。
We Americans have been galvanized by the oil spill on our gulf coast, because we see tar balls and dead sea birds as visceral reminders of our hubris in deep sea drilling.
我们美国人对墨西哥湾漏油事件感到震惊，是因为原油球块和死去的海鸟深刻地提醒我们，我们在深海钻探方面是多么的狂妄自大。
But other components of the oil have most likely turned into floating tar balls that could continue to gum up beaches and marshes, and may represent a continuing threat to some sea life.
原油中的其他化合物最有可能转变成漂浮的原油球块，继续侵袭海滩和湿地，可能对一些海洋生物构成持续性威胁。

Another source of concern: the discovery of 20 tar balls off Key West,Florida on Monday.
And,he said, tar balls are less toxic.
But the sight of workers wearing white protective suits and gloves hauling in tons of oil-contaminated waste - including bags of sandy tar balls, vegetation,used oil booms, rags and other clean-up supplies - has caused alarm among some Gulf coast communities.

There were tar balls in the Gulf before drilling for oil even existed!
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Any tar balls or oil from natural seeps takes this same direction.
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