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
Aalbake
abstract set
adventitias
aldehyde radical
all of a lump
amgen
an eight-hour day
asparagus setaceus
aucubas
automatic-control stability
baby-blue-eyes
Badenheim
ballad maker
bite the dust
Bogyiszlo
borough
burdenous
cash with agent for dividend
cathode potential stabilized tube
chalcanthum
chlortrimeton
contumulation
corneal scratch inoculation
counterseals
cyclomicrobuxinine
DHCP
drift application
dunamis
Duveneck, Frank
echinococcus fremitus
effetely
erythrodermata
Etaples
fascicular tree
felis concolor cougar
flat wire heald
graning
hemorrhagic necrosis
hereunto
hide beetle
high-speed adapter address
horny beak
influencia
intestinal indigestion
Koussi, Emi
large steam turbine generator
legal requirement on deposit
Les Hattes
Lichten
loan on notes
long - keeping milk
lopata
lorretta
low melting point metal
lung
Magnolia Beach
mean standard
Mengkofen
microporellus obovatus
middle-shot wheel
minimum freeboard draught
mucuss
mustard plasters
orthogonality condition
overhead digestion
parasagittals
Patera process
permanent diminution
photon drag detector
progressive propellant
protective potential range
rail-water rate
ramberge
rare-earth salt
reduced join
restricted processor case
rust resisting paint
S.I.
Saint Christopher-Nevis
Sciot
semi-decidable
sensor event adapter
shift voltage
shmiss
shortstaffed
sliprail
soche
spermatic nerve
stagmometer
streak ahead
superharmonic response
surface ships
taper die
target year of water conservancy planning
task-relevant
tatpurusas
tensor green's function
times-out
toe the mark
troutlike
water collar
went out of order