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Boats managed to sop up about 1 million barrels of the estimated 4 million barrels from the ruptured Macondo well, showing how widely the oil has spread.
從破裂的馬孔多油井漏出估計達四百萬桶，清汙船設法打撈出其中一百萬桶，可見原油擴散的有多大。
Many of these buyers appear confident that foreign companies will continue to pour into China's big cities, and expatriates will sop up the many still-empty apartments.
很多人堅信外資企業將繼續湧入中國，駐華的外國人會將大城市許多空置的公寓一搶而空。
After experiments to see how much oil he could sop up with hair clippings, he invented the hairmat to effectively clean up oil-spilled waters.
在多次試騐中他統計了用剪下來的頭發可以吸收多少油量，然後他就發明了用頭發織成的蓆子來淨化油汙染的水源的方法。

The rail holding and utilities fulfilled his need to get invested in GDP properties and sop up cash.
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