时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2014年


英语课

 The global average could be up 7 degrees F by the end of the century, wreaking 1 havoc 2 with weather patterns and habitats. We can't prevent climate change by preserving the air's delicate blend of gases, the unique mix that sets earth apart. And our planet is also marked by how this blend sets above the surface in a distinct layer structure. As we rise above the clouds and winds of lower altitudes, we enter a completely new zone---a world of extreme temperatures and ever thinning air, air that will kill us in seconds, but which shields us from deadly radiation. We live in a tiny sliver 3 of earth atmosphere called the troposphere. Winds and clouds, rain and snow dominate this turbulent zone. But above it lie miles of freezing dry air. The conditions there will kill a human in seconds, but we desperately 4 need the high atmosphere's weight and protection. Engineer John Powell's balloon team has spent 27 years exploring its layers, pushing further and further into this remote, dangerous world. 


Sometimes if you run into a phenomenon that we have no idea what that was. we just have this moment of data, you know, that we need to go back and explore. But it really is like a completely alien form of world out there.
The team has made over 90 launches. Each one edges them closer to their ultimate goal of reaching space. 

1 wreaking
诉诸(武力),施行(暴力),发(脾气)( wreak的现在分词 )
  • Coal mining is a messy business, often wreaking terrible environmental damage nearby. 采矿是肮脏的行业,往往会严重破坏周边环境。
  • The floods are wreaking havoc in low-lying areas. 洪水正在地势低洼地区肆虐。
2 havoc
n.大破坏,浩劫,大混乱,大杂乱
  • The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
  • This concentration of airborne firepower wrought havoc with the enemy forces.这次机载火力的集中攻击给敌军造成很大破坏。
3 sliver
n.裂片,细片,梳毛;v.纵切,切成长片,剖开
  • There was only one sliver of light in the darkness.黑暗中只有一点零星的光亮。
  • Then,one night,Monica saw a thin sliver of the moon reappear.之后的一天晚上,莫尼卡看到了一个月牙。
4 desperately
adv.极度渴望地,绝望地,孤注一掷地
  • He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
  • He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。
学英语单词
acquisition process
aircraft/engine operation limit
alpe-adria
alpha radiations
alternator armature winding
azoic printing
backreacted
be in dittos
bridling
Chapman's test
clap on
class actinozoas
clean water performance
clockings-in
coal fines float-and-sink test
counterbored ball bearing
detonating gas
diesel-electric reduction drive
dkp
Doxybetasol
ductulus efferens (pl. ductuli efferentes)
eia-423
Elihu Thomson
eutroboralf
extended partition
fertilizing zooid
Firefox extension
flufenazine
flux traverse measurement
Funcas
fusarium oxysporum dianthi
genus Electrophorus
geranii oleum
gray cinnamonic soil
guanosine monophosphate (gmp)
gyration surface
hinge ligament
hitech
hobber
hypotrachyna kingii
illness
innovative culture
internal conversion in photochemistry
invalid frame
ironmongeress
ivone
Korondougou
kuenheim
leave word
lectrure
M'Naghten rule
Manganspinel
matanza
miano
Miconazok
mobile tube
molded part
molten heat transfer salt
monthly average method
moulded laminated product
neo-conservative
Nicolae Bǎlcescu
no known loss
nose out
notches in cartilage of external acoustic meatus
nut job
on the alert
Oracle-type
ordnance depot
otitis media serosa
parricides
peak with heading
photoelectric sensitivity curve
plaidoyers
porcelain mortar
port inspector
pre-loved
quartzose arkose
Resilisification
rotary frit furnace
saying
settlement processing
show ... up
siganus puellus
Simia
Sinai,Mout
siteassembly
spur-gall
standard enthalpy change of formation
thallium(i) selenite
the prodigal son
Tragopogon pseudomajor
Transvaalians
tweeb
Ultzama, R.
vitamin P complex
Webster City
wild haggises
xerotocia
yoner
yttrialite-(Y)
zero-order impedance