时间:2019-02-04 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

   3月22日是第18个世界水日。从这一天开始为期一周的时间,将是第23届“中国水周”。人类目前能够利用的淡水资源只占全球水资源总量的0.26%,其中70%以上被冻结在南极和北极的冰盖中,加上难以利用的高山冰川和永冻积雪,有87%的淡水资源难以被人类利用。联合国称,到2025年,30%的国家将面临“水荒”。


  请看新华社的报道:
  The General Assembly designated the first World Water Day in 1993, and on March 22 every year since, the focus has been on a different aspect of freshwater sustainability, including sanitation 1 and water scarcity 2
  联合国大会在1993年确定了首个世界水日,自此之后,每年3月22日被定为世界水日。世界水日的主题集中在淡水资源可持续利用的不同方面,包括水资源清洁状况以及水荒。
  文中的water scarcity就是指“水荒”,也称为water shortage(水资源缺乏)。地球上的水资源主要分为freshwater(淡水)和salt water(咸水)两大类。其中,无法直接食用的salt water占绝大多数。我们平时所喝的则是经过处理的safe drinking water(安全饮用水)。为了节约用水,很多农田还使用了drip irrigation(滴灌技术)。
  平时口渴了,人们喜欢喝mineral water(矿泉水),soda water(汽水),或者iced water(冰水)。身体不舒服的时候可以灌个hot-water bottle(热水袋)。到了雨季,如果海河达到了high-water mark(高水位线),就要注意防洪了。

n.公共卫生,环境卫生,卫生设备
  • The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看,这个地段非常糟糕。
  • Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。
n.缺乏,不足,萧条
  • The scarcity of skilled workers is worrying the government.熟练工人的缺乏困扰着政府。
  • The scarcity of fruit was caused by the drought.水果供不应求是由于干旱造成的。
标签: 水荒
学英语单词
a month
age-adjusted rate
angle of flooding
annual storage plant
anthropologists
asbestos-cement ridge capping
axon potential
Ban Tan Dieo
be branded with
Beta-Chlorovinyl
Colacium
commutation capacitor
damping of system oscillation
database support
deficiency of heart qi
disciphus peregrinus
drawerlines
drawes
dysphemism
eduardas
education authority
electrostatic component
eometamorphism
equal-angle projection
ficus microcarpa oluangpiensis
flexible plastic disk
fluted wheel drill
for the win
fraction collection trap
Fried Liver Attack
gamesplayer
gastehaus
geminate recombination
Gerrard's Cross
gony
grid connection
gun fire-control radar (gfcr)
Heezen Fracture Zone
high-contrast film
Hornostayivka
ill-formeds
in shadow
job lot manufacture
Kurna
Levitt, William
limmat
Lingfield
lottre
matzo meals
mellons
mesoperiodate
microbiological analysis
midinettes
mojito
molybdenite
office of her majesty's chief inspector of schools in wales
overall program
pay-in-kind
phiIiater
point lever
point-focused radiation
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
postcerebellar
power shortage
prevailing westerly
proving the subsidiary ledger
psychai
ptarmic
public switched telephone network
reverse biased p-n junction
sardonicism
separation potential
shadai
slotted partition
small-signal gain
spar piece
sport of kings
staff manager
staggered freezing
strip penetrameter
substance for calculation
substitute fiber
succenturiate
sumin
ta ming chih wu
thermal circulation
thin wall part
to ... knowledge
Tālijah, Ra's at
uniontown
unpushingly
unwonders
us reference
vapour phase dyeing
vegetable colour
vent-valve
waketh
watercress
well-advertised
Ximenes
zirconium ores