英语听力：探索发现 科学新发现：我们的大气层-3
时间：2019-01-23 作者：英语课 分类：探索与发现2014年
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My crew chief said, “are you ready?” I said, “I’m ready, let’s go.” It was a very smooth take-off and I started ascending 1 up, up, up.
30 minutes after take-off, Kittinger reaches 29,000 feet, the middle of the troposphere. At this altitude, the air is so thin that each breath contains only a third of the oxygen found at sea level. Kittinger breathes from gas bottles connected to his sealed helmet. He’s still barely 2 a third of the way to the jump-point.
There are another 14 miles to go. And the air pressure is dropping rapidly. So at about forty thousand feet, suddenly the pressure suit starts inflating 3 and that’s when you start checking it to make certain that it’s working properly.
But there is a crucial fault in the suit. The glove covering this right hand is not sealed.
I had an option to tell the ground that I had a problem. And I knew that if I did, they’d probably make me abort 4 the flight and I was concerned that if we had to abort that flight, then we would have been turned down to try to do it again. So I didn’t tell them.
Kittinger prays that this is an isolated 5 fault and continues to climb at 1000 feet per minute. After 89 minutes, he approaches his target altitude. The balloon’s climb slows and then stalls 6.
adj.上升的，向上的
- Now draw or trace ten dinosaurs in ascending order of size.现在按照体型由小到大的顺序画出或是临摹出10只恐龙。
adv.仅仅，几乎没有，几乎不
- The male bird is barely distinguishable from the female.雄鸟和雌鸟几乎无法辨别。
- He took barely enough money to keep the children in bread.他赚很少的钱仅够孩子们勉强糊口。
v.使充气（于轮胎、气球等）( inflate的现在分词 )；（使）膨胀；（使）通货膨胀；物价上涨
- I felt myself inflating slowly with rage, like a tyre. 我感到自己体内的怒气正慢慢膨胀，像一只轮胎那样。 来自互联网
- Many are already overheating, with prices rising and asset bubbles inflating. 随着物价日益上涨、资产泡沫膨胀，很多新兴国家经济已经过热。 来自互联网
v.使流产，堕胎；中止；中止(工作、计划等)
- The captain instructed them to abort the mission.上尉指示他们中止执行任务。
- With this button the user can abort the audio sequence.用户可以用该按钮终止音频序列。
adj.与世隔绝的
- His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
- Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。