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
addras
Afiq
aggradation of risk
air ways
all-public
alloy-like hydride
artemisia frigidas
atmospheric sciences
avezacite
azizis
barbs
Berndale
bronchoulmonary sequestration
cairas
calci-penia
cd-a
central cochlear canal
cobalt therapy
colorphobia
conservator
continuity contact
controlled-potential coulometry
cony-wool
counterplay
Cyaxares
determination of angiotensin
dickling
ditekiren
emergency-valve
enterprise audit
fabricant
fictitious load
frownless
g.-mol
gabble
geographical features
helical delay cable
hematist
ICI154129
innervation apraxia
international standard substance
Lauragais
leaf tree
lenticelles
Ligamenta metatarsalia interossea
methylantipyrine
monochaetia paeoniicola tsukamoto et katsuki
naphtalane
narrow alley
NU-1196
oil supply line
Osek
ovoes
owner's agent
parallax colour tube
peri-acid
photo studio
plectroglyphidodon johnstonianus
positive correlation
preheat starter
profit sharing
pulsation phase
Pulvinaria hazeae
ravissants
ray center
relexicalization
retractates
rhinencephalon
rounding noise
sappositorium glycerini saponatum
scattering collision
secondary adsorption
sententiarist
sex-and-shopping
Siguirini
single drum sheep-foot roller
space shuttle main engine (ssme)
split-pole converter
standard reference instrument
strayest
subarytenoid
submultiple of si units
Tatian
tooth ratio
Tossedin
tracklaying crane
trichocladium taiwanense
trimetazidine
tunnel-bearing grease
uation
ubiquitinating
ugl
undeparting
undurable
verpa bohemicas
vicissitudious
voluntary muscle relaxant
wind-dispersal
wiped down
ysterplaat