破壞力極強的颶風“伊萬”在古巴西部肆虐后,又咆哮著進入了墨西哥海灣。由于颶風的威脅,墨西哥灣地區的一些石油公司停止了海上石油生產,導致全世界石油價格上漲。外電報道如下:Oil prices headed up toward $45 a barrel on Wednesday as Hurricane Ivan shut 60 percent of crude output in the Gulf of Mexico and at least five refiners along the U.S. coast planned to close as a precaution. Crude output的意思是“原油生產”。Crude的意思是“天然物質,處于未加工狀態的物質,尤指原油”。例如:crude rubber(天然橡膠);crude salt(粗制鹽);petroleum crude或crude oil(原油)。Crude還有“粗糙的、未加修飾的、簡陋的”的意思。例如:a crude shelter in the forest(森林中簡陋的棲身之處)。The painting was a crude forgery.(這幅畫是一件拙劣的贗品)。