美国能源专家从日本的灾难中学习

draw from从…得到；从…中推断(或推论)
例句：The moral to be drawn from this story is that keeping faith is best.
从这个故事中受到的教益是，守信最可贵。
prone to倾向于
例句：Mother is prone to headaches.
我母亲经常头痛。

2. But the twin disasters also wreaked havoc on the region’s energy and transportation systems, and created an extra measure of hardship for residents and emergency aid workers.

wreak havoc肆虐；造成严重破坏
例句：The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.
地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。

3. Tokyo University earthquake researcher Kenji Satake explored the Japanese quake zone last year, after the initial emergency response had wound down.

wind down使逐步缩减(以便结束)；逐步结束，趋于尾声
例句：We should not wind down our business in Shanghai.
我们不该逐渐结束在上海的生意。

4. Those collateral effects are very much on the mind of Althea Rizzo, hazards coordinator at Oregon's Emergency Management Office, where planning is under way for a major quake and tsunami as powerful as those last year in Japan.

under way已经开始并进行着
例句：The yearly campaign to raise funds for the Red Cross is already under way.
一年一度为红十字会募集基金的运动已在进行中。

5. According to Kidd, the BP pipeline is designed to shut down automatically in a megaquake.

shut down完全关闭，倒闭，停止运转
例句：The factory was shut down for two months as a result of the strike.
那工厂因罢工的结果而停工了两个月。

6. Kidd says speedy restoration of fuel supplies after a quake would depend on other damaged structures and services being repaired, such as collapsed bridges, severed roads and, especially, electric power outages.

depend on取决于; 随…而定
例句：Whether the game will be played depends on the weather.
比赛是否举行要看天气而定。

7. "I am much more concerned about the high voltage power system throughout the Northwest and then obviously the lower voltages that feed down and get to us and run our pump stations along the line," he says.

be concerned about关心,挂念
例句：She is concerned about your safety.
她不放心你的安全。

8. He says that, based on past disasters, there's one thing to remember about the inevitable shortages of fuel: people won't need as much of it for a while.

base on使建立在…基础上,立足
例句：Action should be based on solid facts.
行动应有确凿的事实为依据。

9. "For example, the same snowstorm/ice storm that takes out supply of fuel also takes the roads out," Anderson says, "people can't drive from place to place."

take out把…带出去; 清除, 除掉; 获取, 办理
例句：Mary and John took out a marriage license.
玛丽和约翰取得一份结婚证书。