Transportation

 

        Transportation

       1. The two retail giants have rejected the bid to include 

         them in a  proposed   Global Transportation Development

         District, which is expected to generate   sales-tax revenues

         to help pay for road improvements for other retailers the

         city hopes to attract.

         bid  n 請求
     
        proposed    Global Transportation Development District

        提議納入大眾運輸

       generate sales-tax revenues 產生稅收盈餘

       Gas prices shot up as much as 22 cents on Monday at some 

       Detroit-area Speedway station as refinery outages in the 

       gulf coast region and the Midwest resulted in pump prices

       of $3.15 a gallon for self-serve regular at more than a dozen

       retail outlets.

      shoot up  急速增長

      refinery    n煉油廠

     outage      n中斷供應

      refinery outage 煉油廠中斷供應

     pump  n  汽油    (gas)

     self-serve regular  一般自用汽油

     Cook, 24, averages an hour c commute to his job as a       

    production assistant at a  television station in Rockville, 3, a 

   55- mile drive that often gets snarled at one    of three toll 

   booths on the way.

   average   v平均

   snarled   adj 糾結的,混亂的

    toll booth 收費亭

      Vocabulary

      1  transportation   n交通 ,運輸

          transport   v 運送

          public transportation/ public transport  (大眾運輸)

         transportation system  運輸系統

         transportation bureau    交通局

      2.transit  n運輸, 運送   v通過,過境