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
2-nitrofluorene
aeremphysema
agroclimatic zone
Ammodytoidei
amount collected in excess
aneler
ankle biters
anna-maria
appointive
atomized liquid
ayoub
be mad with joy
benzomethamine
Binet-Simon(test)
black-mail
bollees
bostrycin
bottom dumping gismo
brake shoes
branching atom
bronchoscopic spirometry
Bungod
CADCAM
car-panning
cargo safety insurance
catalogue (catalog)
cavessons
CGI Joe
Chambers B.
character image
climatophysiology
cosimo de'medici
cratylisme
cumulative creep-fatigue damage
cutting-off die
deisticness
direct spindle drive
double bar link
duplex engine
durability of wood
em pica
epitestosterone
essential vertigo
extra thickness
final supply sector
financial statements review
flour dressing machinery
grand juries
havanese
hewsol
hyperopia (farsightedness) lens
i-wost
IGSNS
Jaunkalsnava
Jenamicin
juxtaparacrine
knowledge processing
Kolbermoor
Ksar el Hirane
lay down a keel
levoisomer
lightning arrestor
low-pressure blading
main hook approach to crane rail top
masterson
monocotylous
myisha
naturemappers
nobeast
non-noble-gas nuclide
nonantibiotics
nonionic crystal
nowling
oil pressure sensor
oligodynamics
oxidizer loading flexible hose
pablumish
packet-switched network
pay a visit to
pellagrose
pendant signal
polystyrene chain
prime-time war
propelling shaft
remote manual regeneration
river training work
scotser
skim sweeping
slender-delta aircraft
sliced dried beef
soapboxer
soffioni
strategic environmental assessment
Tamami
theoretical science
tiger heart disease
valuation of import
verbigerating
wealth-distribution
Weber number
would best
zanjeros