时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:朗文3L看听学英语第四册


英语课

  Lesson 47 Television Day: The sea

TV Commentary 1:

If you looked at the Pacific from a space-capsule you might think that the world was all water. You would hardly be able to see any land at all. Water covers most of the earth's surface.

The sea contains a large number of substances, besides common salt. If you boiled away some sea-water, you would find over forty different materials. For instance 2, out of a cubic mile of water you would get ninety-four tons of silver and three tons of gold! If it were possible to do this, it still wouldn't be worth the trouble. It would cost more to obtain these precious metals than they are worth. But the sea provides us with a great many materials which we can obtain easily and which we use a lot. For instance, we use huge quantities of sand in industry to make glass, detergents 3 and cement 4.

Besides materials like salt and sand, we obtain a great deal of food from the sea. One day we may even have undersea farms. We have hardly begun to explore the sea. In some ways it is less familiar than outer space.



1 commentary
n.评论,评注;实况广播报导,现场口头评述
  • He is giving the commentary on the basketball game.他正在对篮球赛作评论。
  • His running commentary on the football match was excellent.他对这次足球赛所作的实况报道十分精彩。
2 instance
n.例,例证,实例
  • Can you quote me a recent instance?你能给我举一个最近的例子吗?
  • He's a greedy boy,yesterday,for instance,he ate all our biscuits!他是个贪吃的孩子――比如,他昨天把我们的饼干都吃了!
3 detergents
n.洗涤剂( detergent的名词复数 )
  • Such detergents do not yellow the wool as alkali tends to do. 这种洗涤剂不会象碱那样使羊毛发黄。 来自辞典例句
  • Development of detergents has required optimization of the surfactants structure. 发展洗涤剂时,要求使用最恰当的表面活性剂结构。 来自辞典例句
4 cement
n.水泥;胶结材料;vt.粘结;巩固
  • We need 100 tons of cement at most for this project.这项工程满打满算有一百吨水泥就足够了。
  • Let's cement the parts together.咱们来把这些部件粘接在一起吧。
学英语单词
abhijit
account-tradings
acquisition of a claim
aeronautical information circular (aic)
ammonium cerium(iv) nitrate
androgen-producing tumor
archival data
atomic module
band stop filter
basic calcium phosphate
blank-gore parachute
Boeing Co., the
cannatella
carcincestatin
chess pieces
chimeth
columnar crystal
combined use
compactify
complimentary ensign
coordinate dimension
Corse, C.
CRNF
direct rolling action
economic rule
electronics intelligence
emvryotomy
ester
fall of current
filefishes
financing of instalment sales
Fortean Times
Ga rich melt
gain turn down
Genghisid
ghassan
gondolli
high capacity water power station
hindered diffusion
homotopy classification
honda accord
illuminated blood type viewer
interhyal bone
island-style
It cost an arm and a leg
kleidons
lash sb into a fury
maasdam
manganese rock
microsplanchnic type
mixed dust pneumoconiosis
monkey nuts
Mumbaikars
myobia musculi
Naunheim
nearest-neighbour index
neonatal thrombopenia
NLYR
nonfluent
Obecalp
on-deck shipment
oral aphthae in children
outflux
papulosis
parabolic trough
pericenter
Petrockstow
phenyl ketonuria
photoxidation
pitch spiral
pneumootocous
prejudicateness
preprocessing unit
proportional controller
pyro-chemical
quick start lamp
retronasal
rhizotomist
rolled parts
saltation velocity
serial recording
silver-stainings
smith-richardson
solaceful
suav-
superpart
Suzu-misaki
taeniacides
tangential track control
team race
the reform and opening - up
timber framed house
todetermine
toonophile
track circuit transformator
transitive relation
trickle resin
two state variable
unmasking effects
venditions
water-budget method
Yingchuang