时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:国家地理2008年


英语课

Tucked away in the United Arab Emirate’s northernmost region, a very delicate experiment is underway to bring some luster 1 back to the region’s pearl industry. Since 2005, one company has been cultivating pearls commercially, the first such modern operation of its kind in the Gulf 2.


 “Well, for thousands of years, the whole region depended and, depended totally on pearl fishing. And within a few years, let’s say that two decades, because of the discovery of oil and the invention of pearl culture, the whole industry collapsed 3.”


 Al-Suwaidi says that the UAE is the first Gulf nation to renew pearl cultivation 4, and for good reason. His stock of over 100,000 pearl-producing mollusks are kept in pans and painstakingly 6 cleaned and tended, increasing their potential to grow and produce large high-quality pearls.


 Oysters are a very delicate species of mollusk 5 whose lives and prosperities are measures of the environmental conditions they inhabit. Al-Suwaidi’s business partner, Imura Daiji, says the link between the pearl and its environment is very important. The bigger and healthier the pearl oyster 7, the larger the pearl it can produce.


 “Oyster pearl cultivation and the environment is a very very deep relationship.”


 The untouched quality of this protected ecosystem 8 has allowed him to see a faster span of production time than he had seen in Japan, the birthplace of the industry.


 In years past, pearl divers would plunge without apparatus more than 100 feet beneath the sea, making as many as 30 or more dives a day with only an estimated…



n.光辉;光泽,光亮;荣誉
  • His great books have added luster to the university where he teaches.他的巨著给他任教的大学增了光。
  • Mercerization enhances dyeability and luster of cotton materials.丝光处理扩大棉纤维的染色能力,增加纤维的光泽。
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • 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。
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
n.耕作,培养,栽培(法),养成
  • The cultivation in good taste is our main objective.培养高雅情趣是我们的主要目标。
  • The land is not fertile enough to repay cultivation.这块土地不够肥沃,不值得耕种。
n.软体动物
  • I swear I have never seen such a mollusk with thorns all over its body.我敢发誓我从来没有见过这种全身长满棘刺的软体动物。
  • The colour varies with the mollusk and its environment.颜色因母体及其环境的不同而异。
n.牡蛎;沉默寡言的人
  • I enjoy eating oyster; it's really delicious.我喜欢吃牡蛎,它味道真美。
  • I find I fairly like eating when he finally persuades me to taste the oyster.当他最后说服我尝尝牡蛎时,我发现我相当喜欢吃。
n.生态系统
  • This destroyed the ecosystem of the island.这样破坏了岛上的生态系统。
  • We all have an interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem.维持生态系统的完整是我们共同的利益。
学英语单词
air lubricated thrust bearing
anti-scorching agent
axiobuccogingival
backward conditional probability
bar fagoting
be across to sb
be merciful
bittersweets
boerhaave
brantly
brick works
cam gecidi
carboloy monoxide
channeling radiation
chinni
civilian goods
cold-roll
compiler los alamos scientific laboratories
concertize
conspictious
Crotto
deduct
Densborn
earfuls
electro chemistry
elottery
ethnoornithology
expensed
fan blade (flade)
Ferdows
frame planer
gene signature
genus monotropas
geography paper
grid tray
lawrence peter berras
Marifjφra
marking variable
Menzel Temime
metallogenetic
metapleura
minimize the maximum resources required
modified paper
monowhite
most recent association
nauru(pleasant i.)
nolt
nonagueous
not entirely
oath of allegiance
odo(u)r intensity
on my own initiative
one's strong suit
participant-observation
passive memory
past paper
patrollings
Pemba Island
Phan Chau Trinh
plant demineralized water hose station
Post-Party Depression
pottia truncatula(wdb.et mohr.)lindb.
puaplane
Querpon
reachable forest
red calcareous soil
red trillium
rod reading
routine monitoring
schenkels
schrenkers
see fair play
send cell
show a resemblance to
signiorship
similary
social anxiety
Soutine, Chaim
speakless
spray electrification
stepping downs
strumbox
subsidiary engine
superenergized
synthetic rice
temperature susceplibility
to hell and back
transference of tendon palmaris longus
treunt
trimetaphan camphorsulfonate
trpf
truncus sympathicus
tutorest
unspecialized
volume-limited design
wankel rotary engines
water tree
waterpoloes
wheedlingly
whiteprinting
winnowing fan
without bite or sup