时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2009年


英语课

The everyday things we do mean people on the other side of the world have everyday battle to survive. The L island in the middle of Pacific appeared xx, but on the ground it is the hellish kind of paradise 1.


It looks like the aftermath of S, but this is normal because of climate change. T village was built on good land, but rising sea level means it regularly floods. L the first real victim of global warming.


We have house like xx on the ground but it is built up and water going through and for me, I was worrying like it is gonna fall xx and everything is gonna disappear.


Their homes look more like boats than houses. Some predict the island could be uninhabitable in just twenty years. But it not just flood homes that leaving this island with a crisis 2. This whole area used to be great for growing coco trees, vital for the economy and vital for the local diet. But now you can see, salt water is everywhere, that’s killing 3 off the trees and leaving the people here with a whole new range of problems.


At the island hospital I, E had just had a leg apitated. A couple of decades ago, a xx of people have diet BTs, now a fifth of the populations have the illness. He tells me because crops no longer grown, the island import food, introduced to announced healthy diet, he became addict 4 to sugar and got diet BTs.


Banking 5 xx, the tides gone out. Before it returns, there are a few precious hours to rebuild homes. I am taken to where the sea wall has again collapsed 6, they are trying to shore it up, but know it is a battle they can’t win.


This island has done almost nothing to damage the environment, yet because of others they are the world’s first human casualties 7 of climate change.



1 paradise
n.伊甸乐园,天堂
  • My house had a small backyard,the paradise of children.我那幢房子有一个小后院,那是孩子们玩耍的乐园。
  • On a hot day a dip in the sea is sheer paradise.热天洗个海水澡是十分令人惬意的事。
2 crisis
n.危机,危急关头,决定性时刻,关键阶段
  • He had proved that he could be relied on in a crisis.他已表明,在紧要关头他是可以信赖的。
  • The topic today centers about the crisis in the Middle East.今天课题的中心是中东危机。
3 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。
4 addict
v.使沉溺;使上瘾;n.沉溺于不良嗜好的人
  • He became gambling addict,and lost all his possessions.他习染上了赌博,最终输掉了全部家产。
  • He assisted a drug addict to escape from drug but failed firstly.一开始他帮助一个吸毒者戒毒但失败了。
5 banking
n.银行业,银行学,金融业
  • John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
  • He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。
6 collapsed
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。
7 casualties
n. 伤亡人员
  • Two casualties were airlifted to safety . 两名伤亡人员已空运到安全地区。
  • The army were still fighting in spite of heavy casualties. 尽管伤亡人员众多,军队仍在继续战斗。
学英语单词
algam
antifertilizen
arresting bedwetting
asynchronous sequential machine
Azusa-gawa
baker's chocolate
basin of attractor
be angry at
belly plug
biological accumulation factor
bodiment
calville
calypter
Carinolithus
catena(e)
certificate of disability
chloro-ethylation
columbanuss
completely mixed game
continous
continued fraction approximation
corrected output
damage by vibration
differential observation
differential partial condensation
double entry centrifugal compressor
drunken reveler
ecofriendly
effective pyranometer
eight-points
eleopten
erosion by human activities
exhaust alarm
external posterior seta
fading region
foddered
four-masted brig
frozen juice concentrate
ftiis
galvanic faradization
goldenberry
goora nut
Guaviare, Dep.de
hapned
hiatus femoralis
horse-hoarse merger
Ilex excelsa
isopentylidene
iviss
jet thrust measurement
judogi
matsudana
maynard-smith
Messinikos Kolpos
meteorological sounding rocket
Migamba
minew
multiple rate
mumpery
nineteen-nineties
NRC (National Research Council)
optimum ambient wind velocity
ovarian myxoma
Pachygone valida
pang pang wu
parasitic loss performance
peopeo
permanent stricture
phoned back
Piperoxane
plantar warts
polyethylene
polyneuritic psychoses
pooling of interest
potter
prismatic bed
pulp lap
Queensland lungfish
re-emerge
red stain
reindustrialisation
relyfe
rubber block
sanukitoid
short-circuit transition
show consideration for
socre
sovereignizing
spawnlings
square-dance musics
stag beetles
study for
suberite
T-slot cutting
Telosma procumbens
three-component alloy
time-dependent fluid
torpedoists
transverters
two-story bent
wanton negligence
water-injection declining curve