原版英语小短文 160. The Gulf Disaster

She said the gulf¹ disaster wasn't a big problem. "How can you say that?" he asked. "Millions of gallons of oil are pouring into the ocean." She said it was a big ocean. The oil spill was a drop in the bucket. "Besides, oil and water are natural," she said, "so they can get along with each other." He agreed that oil and water are natural. He said that people are natural, too. Does that mean that oil and people can get along with each other? Would she drink an ounce of oil? Would she swim in oily water? "Of course not," she said. He said that fish were swimming in oily water. Seabirds were eating those fish. "But they're animals," she said. "They adapt to these things." He said dead fish were lying on beaches. Dead birds were lying on beaches. "That's not adapting," he said. "That's dying."

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n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。