These included developing additional domestic sources (such as those on Alaska's North Slope), resuming extraction at sites that had been shut down because of cost inefficiency, capping the price that domestic producers could charge for oil, and beginning to import oil from a greater diversity of nations.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
After the personal-savings rate dipped to zero in 2005, the shock of the economic crisis last year prompted people to snap shut their wallets.
出自-2012年12月閱讀原文
Companies and individuals who don't have a strategy to export more, or to get more involved in foreign markets, or to play a role in global trade, are shutting themselves out of the lion's share of economic opportunity in our world.
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
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V-ERG
關閉;關上;合上
If you shut something such as a door or if it shuts, it moves so that it fills a hole or a space.
例句
Just make sure you shut the gate after you...
進來后務必關上大門。
The screen door shut gently.
紗門輕輕關上了。
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VERB
閉上(眼睛)
If you shut your eyes, you lower your eyelids so that you cannot see anything.
例句
Lucy shut her eyes so she wouldn't see it happen.
露西閉上了眼睛，這樣就不會看到它發生了。
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V-ERG
閉上(嘴巴);(嘴巴)合上
If your mouth shuts or if you shut your mouth, you place your lips firmly together.
例句
Daniel's mouth opened, and then shut again...
丹尼爾嘴巴張了張又合上了。
He opened and shut his mouth, unspeaking.
他張了張嘴，欲言又止。
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V-ERG
(使)(商店、酒吧等公共場所)關門，停止營業，休息
When a store, bar, or other public building shuts or when someone shuts it, it is closed and you cannot use it until it is open again.
例句
There is a tendency to shut museums or shops at a moment's notice...
現在博物館或商店有一種說關就關的趨勢。
Shops usually shut from noon-3pm, and stay open late...
商店通常中午到下午 3 點關門，然后營業到很晚。
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PHRASE
故意忽視;故意不予理會;對…視若罔聞
If you say that someone shuts their eyes to something, you mean that they deliberately ignore something which they should deal with.
例句
We shut our eyes to the plainest facts, refusing to admit the truth...
我們對最淺顯的事實視而不見，拒絕承認真相。
She was shutting her eyes to reality, just as she had done after Matthew died.
她不肯正視現實，跟她在馬修去世后的表現如出一轍。
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PHRASE
保密;三緘其口
If someone tells you to keep your mouth shut about something, they are telling you not to let anyone else know about it.
例句
I don't have to tell you how important it is for you to keep your mouth shut about all this...
我不用告訴你，你自己也知道對所有這些事保密有多重要了吧。
He paid my brother to kill Norton and keep his mouth shut.
他花錢雇我兄弟去殺了諾頓并給了他封口費。
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PHRASE
保持沉默;不發表意見
If you keep your mouth shut, you do not express your opinions about something, even though you would like to.
例句
If she had kept her mouth shut she would still have her job now.
如果她當時保持沉默的話，她現在工作也就不會丟。
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PHRASE
住口;閉嘴
If someone tells you to shut your mouth or shut your face, they are telling you very rudely to stop talking.
例句
'Oi, shut your mouth and have respect for elders,' Langda said to the boy.
“喂， 閉嘴，對長者要尊重，”蘭達對那男孩說。