时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2009年


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 Praised far and wide for the reputed healing powers of its minerals and waters, the Dead Sea has been luring 1 visitors for thousands of years. But these days tourists see a very different lake from the one that others would have witnessed a few decades ago. The sea sits in the lowest place on earth, and for years the water level was 1280 feet below sea level. However, in the last 40 years it's dropped more than 80 feet. Today, the Dead Sea continues to drop at the rate of about 1 meter per year. This dramatic shortage is particularly evident at Israel's Ein Gedi Spa on the southern shores of the Dead Sea.


 
The beach was here and now far away. You can see it's more than one kilometer from here. In 30 years, the beach disappears.
 
The need to change the status quo and find a solution to the Dead Sea's alarming shrinking has been a concern for years for Friends of the Earth Middle East, a non-governmental organization that brings together Palestinian, Israeli and Jordanian environmentalists.
 
So after the '60's when we started to see a dramatic decrease in the surface area of the Dead Sea, and according to the different studies, in 50 years from now, if the sea, at the same rate which is 1 meter per year of drop in the surface level of the Dead Sea, means that this sea will not be the same.
 
Gidon Bromberg, from the Israeli office, points to what he says is the main reason for the Dead Sea shrinkage: the Jordan River no longer flows into the Dead Sea.
 
The Dead Sea has had its taps closed from both ends. From the North, in fact here in front of us is where the Jordan River should be flowing to the Dead Sea. But the Jordan River basically doesn't flow anymore. Ninety-five percent of its waters have been diverted by Israel, by Syria, by Jordan, so that what's left in the Jordan River - a river holy to half of humanity - is little more than agriculture runoff, fish farm waste and, mostly, untreated sewage waters.
 
Bromberg says the rehabilitation 2 of the Jordan River and a renewed influx 3 of its waters into the Dead Sea is one of the keys to saving the lake.

吸引,引诱(lure的现在分词形式)
  • Cheese is very good for luring a mouse into a trap. 奶酪是引诱老鼠上钩的极好的东西。
  • Her training warned her of peril and of the wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring. 她的教养警告她:有危险,要出错儿,这是微妙、神秘而又诱人的。
n.康复,悔过自新,修复,复兴,复职,复位
  • He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
  • No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
n.流入,注入
  • The country simply cannot absorb this influx of refugees.这个国家实在不能接纳这么多涌入的难民。
  • Textile workers favoured protection because they feared an influx of cheap cloth.纺织工人拥护贸易保护措施,因为他们担心涌入廉价纺织品。
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atom-meter
Australian Stock Exchange
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grinding dry
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Ich'ǒn
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iron base super strength alloy
keep walking
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Lesvos
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master watch
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trang
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Vargas, Estado
washitsu
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