The data from Claire suggested the leak in Turkmenistan had been a big one.
To establish just how big, Daniel Jacob of Harvard University and his colleagues studied the images obtained by this satellite along with observations made of the area at the time by the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (tropomi), which is carried by an atmospheric research satellite operated by the European Space Agency.
The results, published in Geophysical Research Lettersin November 2019, concluded that between February 2018 and January 2019 the three leakswoulld have released, between them, 142,000 tonnes of methane.
This made the Turkmenistani leak far bigger than the 97,000 tonnes of methane discharged over four months by a notorious blowout at a natural-gas storage facility in Aliso Canyon, California, in 2015, which is reckoned to have been the worst natural-gas leak yet recorded in America.
這是《經濟學人》2020年2月刊的一篇文章'The methane hunters'第3段，共4句。
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直接翻譯：來自Claire的數據顯示，土庫曼斯坦的洩漏事件是一件大事情。
2、
這句話看上去很長，但是仔細觀察，這句話核心內容很簡單為：
‘To establish just how big Daniel Jacob and his colleagues studied the images’意思很簡單，就是：‘為了評估到底有多大， Daniel Jacob和他的同事研究了這些衛星圖片。’剩下的內容就是解釋說明的，整理一下翻譯：為了評估到底有多大， 來自哈佛大學的Daniel Jacob和他的同事研究了這些衛星圖片，這些圖片是由被安裝在歐洲航天局所控制的大氣研究人造衛星上面的對流層監測儀器長期觀察獲得的。
3、
結論發表在2019年11月的“地球物理研究報告”上，即在2018年2月至2019年一月期間，共有三起洩漏事件，洩漏甲烷142000噸。
4、
{'notorious':'adj.聲名狼藉的'}
{'blowout':'爆胎，井噴'}
{'facility':'設備'}
{'reckoned':'被看作是，料想'}
這使得土庫曼斯坦洩漏的甲烷排放物，遠超過2015年加利福尼亞Aliso峽谷天然氣儲備設備長達四個月的臭名昭著的井噴的（洩漏了）97000噸，這次井噴被認為是美國已有記錄中最糟糕的天然氣洩漏事件。
--總結--
這段話有一些長句子，但是語法還是比較簡單的。
【詞彙部分】
{'notorious':'adj.聲名狼藉的'}
{'blowout':'爆胎，井噴'}
{'facility':'設備'}
{'reckoned':'被看作是，料想'}
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