时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:英音模仿秀


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模仿文本: Half of us live in one of the world's great urban sprawls 1, the concrete and glass habitats we create for ourselves. Our cities have spread and replaced wildlands, and they roar and blaze with the energy from fossil fuels. They're colossal 2 and sometimes magnificent. But how substantial are they? Will they stand the test of geological time? 
 
译文: 我们当中有一半的人居住在那些遍布全球的了不起的城市地区,也就是我们用水泥和玻璃为自己建造的居所。我们的城市不断扩展,依靠消耗化石燃料产生的能量制造喧闹之声,发出耀眼之光,取代了荒野。它们庞大无比,有时还很壮观,不过它们有多么坚固结实呢?它们能经受得了地质时期的考验吗? 
 
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1 sprawls
n.(城市)杂乱无序拓展的地区( sprawl的名词复数 );随意扩展;蔓延物v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的第三人称单数 );蔓延;杂乱无序地拓展;四肢伸展坐着(或躺着)
  • The city sprawls out to the west, north and south. 该市向西、北、南方不规则地扩张[延伸]。 来自互联网
  • Explanation: Our magnificent Milky Way Galaxy sprawls across this ambitious all-sky panorama. 说明:我们宏伟的银河系蜿蜒穿过这幅高企图心之全天影像。 来自互联网
2 colossal
adj.异常的,庞大的
  • There has been a colossal waste of public money.一直存在巨大的公款浪费。
  • Some of the tall buildings in that city are colossal.那座城市里的一些高层建筑很庞大。
学英语单词
active process
adjustable hanging pole
anlungensis
anti-reductionism
aqd
area pattern
artificial feedings
asynchronous static RAM
attain high output of wheat
benincasae semen
binding piece
bodices
boyness
budgetary expenditure account
buying cycle
cementation steel
christian-humanists
coastal dynamic geomorphology
compound token
contact status
corpora fibulae
correct time
counter solvent
crusher chute
curbishleys
cuspidal quartic
dandelionlike
DC-pumped
death-trance
demonries
diffraction of water waves
distomatosis pulmonum
divided header
divider style
early strength agent
electric hot water boiler
fergana
filament wound composite
fixed die half
fling
fossa jugularis (regionis colli ant.)
Ganghwado
Grosser Heuberg
handhole yoke
heriberto
HMPS
human action
inacio
indubitables
Irishism
keyboard send/receiver
kristiansson
kyllo
laboratory-type instrument
labradores
Lady Day
liberal arts education
limiting subcooling
Llandeilian Stage
make someone welcome
management accounting
mbanda
mine ventilation system
mishuga
mizunas
multilinearly
mus tantillus
musculi papillares septales ventriculi dextri
nickel-base
obtain an accommodation of
Oldenburg, Claes
Optical Carrier levels
ordan
oruc
phalium bandatum
phono
Polygonum filicaule
praepupa
protactinium dating
qualitative research
quench pulse
radial rack
raiz
rehearsings
safe practice
scantily-clad
schoolmastering
session statistics file
slide-rule
slit gauge
Stalinization
stephensoniana trivandrana
sycee silver
symbolic representation
thrust barrel
trade representative
tubercle or gall of olive
turret traversing motor switch
Tåsjän
Ushba, Mt'a
Vasorbate
Welge method