时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2012年


英语课

 But as the landscape alters, there’re new dangers. Everything’s just changing now. Look, the weather is getting worse, the wind picking up. But also, this river is really widening, which means that it’s prime crocodile territory. There are two types of crocodiles in Australia. Salt water crocodiles are man-eaters and they tend to stay near the coast. So far, I’m only seeing fresh-water ones. But even these can attack. Hey, look, look, there you go. There’s a fresh water crocodile, 20 meters away. Let’s see if we can get up a little bit closer. He’s only a small one. Let’s keep an eye around as well. These fresh water crocs are fast. They can run up to 10 miles an hour at short bursts. So you’ve got to keep your distance. What they like here is all these shallow pools that they are just basking 1 in. We’ve got quite a lot of these pools. Let’s just keep moving. Ok, this is a much safer distance to be. It’s about 50 meters back now from the bank. We need to keep that distance and keep following the river there. Freshies can be clearly identified by their long, thin snouts. There’s another, they are all over the place. 


 
Freshies tend to attack if cornered or surprised. I never want to find myself between a croc and the river. Here further downstream, you are more likely to run into salt water crocodiles. And at this time of year, they often head upstream, away from their usual coastal 2 habitat. It’s their breeding season, and that makes them even more aggressive. See that? Look, it’s a salt water crocodile. You’ll be alright in this distance. These guys are the ones you want to watch out for. If he took me, he’d drag me into the water, death roll, and then rip 3 me apart. And the chances of surviving over a crocodile attack in deep water are almost nil 4. Amazing to see so close. But this means there’re salties here. I don’t want to be close to the river. I’m gonna move back inland. Salties have broad round noses and they are considered to be Australia’s most dangerous animal. They are capable of biting with a force of 1 ton per square inch. And scientists believe it’s much stronger than a Tyrannosaurus rex.

1 basking
v.晒太阳,取暖( bask的现在分词 );对…感到乐趣;因他人的功绩而出名;仰仗…的余泽
  • We sat basking in the warm sunshine. 我们坐着享受温暖的阳光。
  • A colony of seals lay basking in the sun. 一群海豹躺着晒太阳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 coastal
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
3 rip
n.拉裂,破绽,激流,浪荡子;vt.撕裂,激昂地说,贬损;vi.裂开,仓促地冲过...
  • He had seen the rip in the book.他看到了书里的裂缝。
  • I tried not to rip the paper as I unwrapped it.我把纸打开的时候,尽量不把它撕破。
4 nil
n.无,全无,零
  • My knowledge of the subject is practically nil.我在这方面的知识几乎等于零。
  • Their legal rights are virtually nil.他们实际上毫无法律权利。
学英语单词
A block
A.M.L.S
after-date bill
aide-de-campship
Akdere
all capacity
Aquincum
Bacillus formicicum
Baker,Newton Diehl
Ban Nam Phong
be discharged from prison
below-zero
bending of light
bifid apex
bin feeder
binge-and-purge
bioartificial
Birks
bottom paints
Bring-work
broke the bank
bufonaria margaritula
building standardization
Bφlling
chabertia
Claisen reaction
cock feather
colinvaux
compounding ingredient
condensated water
cone roof reservoir
consult
crimes
day corrector lever
diffuse superficial keratitis
DIR
disk storage dirve
distributor caps
Drug Enforcement Administration
effective refractory period
electronic countermeasure set
explosion-proof type detector
extemporizer
facies terminalis caudalis (oss. sacri)
feeder road
first stage unit
gentrifier
GNAA
Goonhilly
grevilleas
Gynura divaricata
hemisphaericum
highshine
Hymenoptera
inculcative
indirectly-coupled system
integral pattern
integriss
ionosphere layer
Karathuri
know one's onions
long ink
lookaside cache
lung-duster
lupus nephritis
lymphatic duct
march ability
megateslas
minesweeper
motor bearings
Mucuna
Muhammadry
multi-purpose display
native vermillon
nonmultiplex
online focus group
open market rate
orsanmichele
paythroughs
photoelastic
principal axis of symmetry
reschedule the debt
residual masking
rxte
Sachverhalt
same body chain
satellitious
Scutellaria krylovii
sector battery control
self-subsistent
shallow marine facies
sommerfeld diffraction
stress accommodation
Tayyebāt
teeter-tails
teletalking
the American War of Independence
trimmers
waste disposals
watch it
Whisky Rebellion
xol