时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2016年10月


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Stories from Egypt and Peru start things off today.


Our first report is from North Africa. Scientists examining the Great Pyramid of Giza think they might have discovered two hidden rooms in the structure. The Great Pyramid is the largest of Giza's three pyramids. Researchers believe it was built more than 4,500 years ago.


Scientists have been scanning the pyramid, kind of like taking x-rays and heat scans of it, and they detected what could be unknown cavities or rooms inside the structure. More tests are needed before researchers can be sure these rooms are significant. At this point, they only add to the mysteries of the Great Pyramid.


Another mystery is troubling officials in South America. Thousands of critically endangered frogs living near Peru's Lake Titicaca have died and no one knows why. The Titicaca water frog has struggled in recent decades. It's been overhunted for food, it's lost parts of its habitat, exotic trout 1 have been eaten the frog's tadpoles 2.


But investigators 3 are trying to find out what's causing so many of them to suddenly turn up dead. Some residents of the area think that raw sewage coming from a nearby city might be killing 4 the frog.



1 trout
n.鳟鱼;鲑鱼(属)
  • Thousands of young salmon and trout have been killed by the pollution.成千上万的鲑鱼和鳟鱼的鱼苗因污染而死亡。
  • We hooked a trout and had it for breakfast.我们钓了一条鳟鱼,早饭时吃了。
2 tadpoles
n.蝌蚪( tadpole的名词复数 )
  • The pond teemed with tadpoles. 池子里有很多蝌蚪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Both fish and tadpoles have gills. 鱼和蝌蚪都有鳃。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
学英语单词
acetyl-beta-methylcholine bromide
ageing
anticyclonic tornado
Balcillus proteus mirabilis
brandywell
broca's speech area
cape dolphin
chechias
Chloramex
cistocardin
Clematis pashanensis
collet holder
common-channel interoffice signaling
Compartment Partly Fulled with Grain in Bulk
conclusion of the auction
contractured
coreless cold elbowing
cybernetics
dazzleness
department of agricultural economics
double ended boiler
emergentness
equilibrating force-system
etra
Euphorbia formosana
excel yourself
execution of decree
fap on it
foreign release
freshman
fruits of the earth
Funtumia
goal suck
gutted weight
hypo-alpha-lipoproteinemia
hypogaleus hyugaensis
Hypothyridina
infrared light sensor
interleaved subscript
jubilee wagon
juncaceous
late chlorosis
Letter from America
mentha-camphor
microcanonical partition function
midsolo
modem eliminator
mountainview
mud bath
N'Gage
nearliness
neurotoxicosis
non-periodic variation
Oconomowoc Lake
optical spectral broadening
palaemon ortmanni
patamare
perisyringitis chronica nasi
pole of a plane
porphyrellus formosanus
Posadowsky Glacier
predesignate
price guideline
programmable linear address register
pulp receptivity
reduce to the ranks
reliability assessment
reversed load
run yourselves out
Salinas de Garci Mendoza
sandwich biscuit
scroll roller
series microprocessor
signal inspection
single-trace magnetic head
Slavhorod
sodium chloroborate
Stent's mass
stoicheiomatical
stratified engine mixture
streamlined car body
sub-licences
suffer damage
Supportan
supra-
symmetric involution
tail wedge angle
tender porcelain
thyrotoxic myopathy
to conceal
to thresh
tokenizes
top end
torpedo system
trabea
triple-length register
tuberculosis of nasal sinuses
vasoresection
vibration criterion
waterbeaches
West Korea Bay
wolf tickets