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
alons
amending statute
anaphasic
asymptotic slope
audio engineering
avenolith
babysitting
biosis
bladdernut
Boltz's reaction
borelaps
brushed finish
Cacumen Platycladi
cell adhesion molecule (cam)
cephalocaudad
clangours
clark resist wire
condenser substage
containerized
Couette viscometer
cravenness
critical parachute open speed
crosswise angle
cyth
data-acquisition equipment
debt restructuring
egg stone
encushion
endosteal
eumenes punctatus formosensis
fast-fission reactor
fault-tolerance
favorite places
fire him
fried noodle
gharapuri
Glochidion oblatum
gotten away
guzzling
half-caste
hard-case
high-volume particulate sampler
hygrophorus flammans (scop)schrot h. minitus fr.
i can see clearly now
inferior to
is out of question
JEMS
large wheel
lema (petauristes) fortunei
limiting vacuum
low atomic weight
MacMunn's tests
magnification spectrometer
management-theory
maun
mechanize
Metamynodon
meter stamp
miniature image orthicon
mirror light
noise grade
npe
on-pitch
overconformed
overtesting
phleboedesis
photoperiodical perception
planetary-parallel gear
PSS (programming support system)
quadruple wholes
quequisque
Reselets
right aorta
right of preservation
roundabout transport
savon
Sidi Abdalah
single throw
spring quadrant steerer
stannous fluoboric acid
steamtightness
stripping drum
sublibrary directory
submesothelial
supertelex service
tetar
the extreme penalty
The game is over .
the same old song
tolerance study
torque pick up
triple phoshate crystals
ulorrhagia
unconditionally stable amplifier
utouth
viano
virtual tape server
vuel
washed metal
Wilton carpet
zero lap (pneumatic)
zinc hydrogen phosphate