时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2008年


英语课

Mechanical failure can strike anywhere. And if you got stuck in the bush you can’t always rely on technology to bail 1 you out.


“Do you copy? Ah, nothing doing, so we're stuck in the bush. Shall I stay or shall I go and look for civilization wherever that may be. Rule one: you must stay with your vehicle.”


 


Phil is a professional. He’s brought water with him. But if you don’t have water, it’s essential you know what to do.


 


“I've heard stories of people drinking from their radiators 2. These engine coolants contain chemicals that will stop metal corrosion 3. But if you drink that, they will corrode 4 you. If I was in an enclosed 4x4, and it was night time, I would get into the vehicle, close the door, wind up the windows and then hopefully by the morning I would have enough condensation 5 built up for me to drink. Unfortunately, I’m in an opened vehicle, the mid-day sun is out, it’s like a micro-wave oven in here, and I’m starting to dehydrate 6. But don’t panic, you probably won't die out here without water for two days.”


 


Your 4x4 may be going nowhere, but parts of it can still be very useful. Not very environmentally friendly, and you’d better make sure you don’t set fire to your vehicle or the dries of any scrub. But we are tracking survival a smoking tire can be seen miles away. The number one rule for travelers who are not familiar with the Savannah is stay with your vehicle. But what if you are certain that no one will be coming to find you, if you don’t wanna die, you have to find something to drink.


 


Phil is going to show us where to find water in this arid 7 land, and he’ll show you he can survive with almost nothing. He’s leaving his GPS and rifle behind.


 


“People have lived in this kind of area for thousands of years without these things, and today we are gonna show you how to do the same.” Setting off alone in the Savannah could be a death sentence for anyone without Phil's expertise 8 as a tracker.


 



1 bail
v.舀(水),保释;n.保证金,保释,保释人
  • One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
  • She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。
2 radiators
n.(暖气设备的)散热器( radiator的名词复数 );汽车引擎的冷却器,散热器
  • You can preset the radiators to come on when you need them to. 你可以预先调好暖气,使它在你需要的时候启动。
  • Stars are radiators of vast power. 恒星是强大的发光体。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3 corrosion
n.腐蚀,侵蚀;渐渐毁坏,渐衰
  • Corrosion is not covered by the warranty.腐蚀不在保修范围之内。
  • Zinc is used to protect other metals from corrosion.锌被用来保护其他金属不受腐蚀。
4 corrode
v.使腐蚀,侵蚀,破害;v.腐蚀,被侵蚀
  • The tools will corrode with rust if never used.这些工具如长期不用会长铁锈而损坏。
  • It will pollute people's aesthetic taste and corrode social spirit.它污染人们的审美趣味,腐蚀社会精神。
5 condensation
n.压缩,浓缩;凝结的水珠
  • A cloud is a condensation of water vapour in the atmosphere.云是由大气中的水蒸气凝结成的。
  • He used his sleeve to wipe the condensation off the glass.他用袖子擦掉玻璃上凝结的水珠。
6 dehydrate
vt.使脱水
  • People can very quickly dehydrate in the desert.人在沙漠里很快就会脱水。
  • Without these structures, many warm-blooded animals would quickly dehydrate,especially in dry climates.没有这样的结构,许多温血动物将很快脱水,特别是在干燥的气候条件下。
7 arid
adj.干旱的;(土地)贫瘠的
  • These trees will shield off arid winds and protect the fields.这些树能挡住旱风,保护农田。
  • There are serious problems of land degradation in some arid zones.在一些干旱地带存在严重的土地退化问题。
8 expertise
n.专门知识(或技能等),专长
  • We were amazed at his expertise on the ski slopes.他斜坡滑雪的技能使我们赞叹不已。
  • You really have the technical expertise in a new breakthrough.让你真正在专业技术上有一个全新的突破。
学英语单词
admission charge
alpha-en-dorphin
Amboseli National Park
aperiodic stability
ASTM grain size
battailyng
Beaver City
beguilers
belt conveyor
bexar
Butocine
c-holes
casernes
cassia-bark tree
Chamaecyparis obtusa
clay burning unit
clerical work
coccolithid
codetermining
combined version
Conception Vessel
content-dependent
corpus fetishism
cotton consumption
Disperse Navy Blue S-2GL
double Belgian mill
double drum separator
double sheath
earthbags
eCig
electron emission decay
engine diagnostic system
Euonymus perbellus
external-device control
featherway
free variant
gastro-epiploic glands
go way back
gop-controlled
habeas
high strength tubing
hold the course
Hookean deformation
human power
hydrodynamic derivatives
intrinsic rewards
kaluza
Lee Bank.
life and health
magnetic push-pull amplifier
microbending sensor
Microware
multilingual debugging
nanoapertures
narrow band rf channel
narrow margin scheme
nephrogenic peptonuria
net exchange capaciyt of soil
normalization-plate anemometer
nuclear geology (isotope geology)
nuclear isomers
nuclei tegmenti
over-generalisation
parotiditis
partial
perelli
pneumatic flapper valve
pneumatic test
pollutingly
pumelo
reexplore
reference state
Rhododendron xiaoxidongense
ring taps
Rott
run like a deer
Scopetine
Siberian crab apple
simple Markovian queue
spiral pattern
Staryy Lesken
string ... up
strip-method in echelons
sublingual space
tapirus terrestriss
temgesics
temper graphite
Termitaphididae
textile dyeing and finishing auxiliaries
the service
Think toady and speak tomorrow.
tight lock type automatic coupler
travelodges
tree louse
trench-forearc geology
triangular notchg
twin tetrode
tylaster
vanishing stability
vibratom
yates's method