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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A4/A6 ratio of humic acid
acoustic music
acquired jejunoileum diverticulum
Alangium
allowable fishing season
Ambohibe
antecessour
antennarius
Artacaminae
autocue
bait formulation
basic military route network
be going places
Beccari's membrane
Bochaine
campuses
cataplasmic
Chlorotile
Class Days
class of waterway
complex body
computer integrated
core drying stove (core oven)
cryptic
davydov
DDSA
deerburger
dipole momentum
directed reading activity
dividing plate
East African Harbours Corporation
electroactivities
epeirophoresis
facility work order
forging tools
fork
gain programmed amplifier
Gaultheria trichophylla
GI bride
go counter to
gunter wilhelm grasses
heilbrunn
hemiprism
high-pressure purge
high-pressure tester
highway unit
Horse Heaven Hills
Hudsonian life zone
idf (international distress frequency)
increately
isogametion
item mark
lack of refrigerant
latched in contact
load condenser
mass-coloured dying
Mendoza, Prov.de
network initial condition
nutation disc flowmeter
old campaigner
opiase
ornamentations
orthopantomographic
paellas
parfait glass
Photinia chihsiniana
pirate broadcasting
pneumatic electric relay
pneumonic device
polyether sulphone (PES)
Prinos
propulsion shaft seal
propyla
quasi-distance
remote(-controlled) valve
Rigamycin
safe custody business
safranal
salt screen
San Vito sullo Ionio
sanqul
say ladle
seperate teacher
shearing bushing
sleeve resection of bronchus
southwestern toad
spiderly
stomatocyte
suppl.
tantaluslike
theme-park
to be named later
transferability of cheque
triple valve bracket filler
unbewildered
verligte
wafer-cake
wall jib crane
water softened in boiler
wedding dinner
wheel animacules
yellowish-gray