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
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4-aminopterin
acilliform sclerites
affine film shrinkage
after-flush compartment
airs de danse
al jawarah (juwara)
anatomizations
antifogmatic
aurosmiridum
Barrovian zone
bepowdered
Bounkiling
Bouse Wash
bradytely
bromatoxism
brummett
castelfiorentinoes
check loan
code of Hammarabi
dasol b.
delaware bays
depictures
Dervock
diaphragmatic peritonitis
dual listed company
embedded part
end-of-reel marker
entropy effect
ergotrate maleates
family tie
feldsparphyric rock
fibre abrasion tester
field school
fille d'honneur
Geoderum
girl of the old school
glass sock
go down the road
gripping mechanism
handshaker
Heshnīz
household soap
Igensdorf
inner margin
interlattice
isodictyal skeleton
junction style of thermocouple
kinematic parameter
know how the wind blows
Konovalovka
laser searchlight
latent focus
Latin Quarter
Lazonby
Lecithinum
line feed
liner-phase filter
loadamatic control
loglisci
long-tail
loss measuring instrument
man of mould
menghi
model photography
multimanager
multiple-counter system
multiplesintering
Myofibroblastoma
near-post
net saving
nipple cutter
Noceto
paleontology
path of flight
peat-moss
peroxisomes
Plectroceras
Pokhra
polished cottons
prismoids
privilege bracketing
pseudanthias engelhardi
psychrophytes
pulsed poloidal magnetic field (bp)
rancho
road net
rock hyraxes
Salmonella give
secondary and control wiring
semidesert
shoogly
single-circuit receiver
spectacle stern frame
spiral slot
substantial harm
sumi e
Thuidietum
TMS
transhipment not allowed
tunnel driving method
up-quenching
uranium hexafluorides