时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:听一分钟英文-E


英语课

Electricity is one of the most important inventions ever. It is the thing that powers the Earth. If there was no electricity, we’d be back in the dark ages. Few people stop and think just how amazing electricity is. With the flick 1 of a switch 2, you can power almost anything. Think about what would happen if there was no electricity. We’d have no TV, no computers, no traffic signals 3. It would be like going back to living in caves. There are a few negative points about electricity, of course. Number one, it’s dangerous. Thousands of people die each year from electrocuting themselves or in electrical fires. And number two, it isn’t good for the environment. Most electricity comes from burning coal and that creates greenhouse 4 gasses.



1 flick
n.快速的轻打,轻打声,弹开;v.轻弹,轻轻拂去,忽然摇动
  • He gave a flick of the whip.他轻抽一下鞭子。
  • By a flick of his whip,he drove the fly from the horse's head.他用鞭子轻抽了一下,将马头上的苍蝇驱走。
2 switch
n.开关,电闸,转换,软枝;vt.转变,切换,摆动,转换,使转轨;vi.转换,变换,摆动
  • The switch on the wall was beyond the baby's reach.墙上的开关小孩子是够不到的。
  • There's been a switch in our plans.我们的计划改变了。
3 signals
n.信号( signal的名词复数 );(无线电或电视所传送的)讯号;标志;(尤指铁路和公路上的)指示灯v.发信号,用信号传达,用信号通讯( signal的第三人称单数 );发暗号;示意
  • signals transmitted from a satellite 从卫星传送来的信号
  • This metal tower is used to relay television signals to distant villages. 这个金属塔是用于向遥远的村子转播电视讯号的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 greenhouse
n.花房,温室,玻璃暖房
  • Behind the green house was a greenhouse.在那所绿房子后面是一个花房。
  • The tomatoes were grown in the greenhouse.这些西红柿是在温室栽培的。
学英语单词
a blanket of smoke
ABAI
abequosyltransferase
acanthocephalous
accelerated freeze-drying
actualizer
acyl iodide
automatic material handling system (amhs)
automation and control
background ionization voltage
biballism
bronze race
capitalist farming
chronology condition
clinostatasm
commercery
conjugacies
cyles
dark diffuse nebula
davar panah
Days' sales outstanding
diffusely reflecting surface
draw-in bolt
effective heat transfer surface
emphasising
encumbered with
engagement of the cutting edge
Engler viscometer of petroleum products
Erethisma
extended error correction
extinction of claim
felt-neoprene seal
folk-tradition
gekko hokouensis
genus Ischigualastia
grashof rule
gui application interoperability architecture
gummi tragacanthae
haemophiles
haplic acrisols
hard plug
haz-mat
head telephone
heirs apparent
Herzberg's two-factor theory
hole straightening
Holmes, Arthur
hypothesis
incisurae sphenopalatina
indurance
internal flow field visualization using optical fiber
interorganizational systems
ladlefor smelting
laparohysterosalpingo-oophorectomy
law of international transfer of technology
lenbachhaus
lipodermatosclerosis
magnetic matrix switch
measuring addendum
mensurate
merge package
metaconid
mother map
Nel'koba
non-cooperative Walras equilibration
not-at-risk
number of actual teeth
operatic stars
optical superposition
Otary
partargo
personal service of the writ
philophylla fossata
pinion type cutter
planaperturate
pneumases
Project Mercury
reconquerable
Redi, Francesco
reflectivity method
repulsive interaction
rond de jambe en l'air
run-and-hit
safety supervision
sambuk
seed vigor
seismoscope data
selection command
sensitve drilling machine
shonfields
silique
singularization
sintered plastics
smolianinovite
stage struck
start code
thermopreferendum
unbottom
uveolabyrinthitis
vernier nozzle
whipping of crank shaft
zero synchronization