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
acceptable tolerance
air tight container
ancyloceratids
artificial fission
assum
bellows fish
blinkered
bold
border lace
bruddahs
brust a blood vessel
buffered counter
bundesgerichtshof
cheilanthes eatoniis
comeling
communicated insanity
condition of assets
cooperation of handicraft
cressler
cross key
depositive
different opinions
dilacerations
Disraelitish
drop cutting
dry condenser
encrampish
equal precision measurement
explosive goods
filamentous form
Flucerine
frasassi
Geraniaceae
governante
Guajaratuba
guiniad
hakuin
halophenols
hirudineans
IGGP
ill wind
imborsation
immune lysis
incineration of radwaste
inclined seat valve
integrated satellite terrestrial network
Intelligent Printer Data Stream
interferoid
Irish joke
jackknife clams
Julian number
keracides
load combination
logistic defence measure
lot-river
mahonies
moving-coils
mukundan
musculus splenius cervicis
music technology
Mīr Muhammad
new and nonofficial remedies (n.n.r.)
nosubx
omnidirectional radar prediction
oneaddress
padan
pandaram
pedaliter
periopaper
plankton microscope
Poa hirtiglumis
Power and Glory
rectron
refueling truck
refuelling water storage tank system
roccellas
scholasticate
schoonenberg
screwdown valve
small people
sponge type porosity
standard efficiency
steam gauge stand
suffrago
synsepal ous
tangana
technical drawing pen
texting you
That's another pair of shoes.
three-quarter backs
to box
total dissoloved solid
tresoreries
Triangle University Computation Center
trimeturon
turning short round by one end touch the shoal
undergeneralized
UUM
vassalry
vice proper
well-kepts
willy brandts