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
abstraction tool
aggests
aluminum silicate
anti-apray
appellative function
arcury
arrival and departure sidings
badshots
basic gravimetric point
Bol'shoye Gorodishche
bucins
calcifediol
Caras-Severin
carbocoal tar
ceruminoma
chemistry reaction
coasting braking test
collineation mapping
continuous retort furnace
copying-pencil
core tray
counterpropagating waves
cristicole
cubic measures
definition structure
difference thresholds
dorsal medial nerve of second toe
double-sided impeller
dropping gloves
echiuroidea
fifty pence
floating-point slave accelerator
fork luncheon
glutamyls
gnag type
gumwoods
hallucar
high-explosive ammunition
high-pressure torch
home-spun
homeomorphic spaces
hyperon atom
illustrative diagram
immunofluorescence microscopy
initial provisioning
integral governor
interaction psychology
jug
kebnekaises
King Christian I.
life leasehold
lip-synced
lordotically
main performance index
margin loans outstanding
microfunctional circuit
miswrest
molest
nightclubbing
off-stage
outward voyage
overaccumulations
paleoviruses
Parachampionella rankanensis
pebbly mudstone
permafrost dynamics
Petzval sum
photoelasticity technique
pneumatic transport placer
position signal
proalcools
process development
Prout's hypothesis
pseudo-gout
Puerto Coig
punkey
quasi-equivalent
relative turgidity
representative computing
rock crushing strength
serviter
sleeper plate
smelling therapy
strip-extraction
tell kotchek (tall kuchik as saghir)
the cool
the FOMC
thyreohyoideus
Tindal/Tindale, William
totah
translocator
trickles
TSSR
tunica adnata oculi
two-thread chain stitch
user interrupt service routine
Vasoverin
vein of cochlear aqueduct
wavells
wind spring