时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:晨读英语美文60篇


英语课

[00:00.00]Fuel Cell—Energy in the Future


[00:09.66]The price of oil has soared from $43.45 a barrel to $65.35, a 50% gain.


[00:19.95]It is transportation such as driving back and forth 1 to work


[00:24.32]and visiting companies that burns lots of fossil fuel.


[00:28.39]Suppressed by the increasing oil price,


[00:31.44]does it ever occur to you that a new,


[00:33.75]lightweight fuel cell running on methanol power you electric car?


[00:38.22]If they work,


[00:39.76]methanol fuel cells could be a major breakthrough in energy consumption


[00:44.13]and conservation and drastically cut air pollution from auto 2 emissions 3.


[00:48.94]Whether they are used to run cars and buses


[00:52.88]or to make electricity for other applications,


[00:55.82]fuel cells operate by converting hydrogen to electricity


[01:00.10]without combustion 4.


[01:01.73]They are akin 5 to continuously-recharging batteries.


[01:06.54]Hydrogen and oxygen are fed into a stack of plates that create electricity,


[01:11.35]with harmless water vapor 6 as the by-product 7.


[01:14.53]These silent, zero-emission gadgets 8 have long been used in NASA spacecraft.


[01:20.34]They represent the great hope of many environmentalists


[01:24.49]to power the first mass-produced electric car.


[01:27.98]Now the fuel cells are favoured by many venture companies through the world,


[01:33.12]such as Fuel Cell, Plug Power,


[01:37.56]Fuel-Cell Energy specializes in stocks of alternative energy companies.


[01:42.14]Plug Power is one of the few publicly traded fuel-cell companies.


[01:47.17]Unfortunately, neither company is making money at the moment.


[01:51.98]Fuel Cell lost $1.58 per share the past 12 months.


[01:58.22]Plug Power lost $64 cents a share.


[02:02.16]In the future, we may rely on many different types of power.


[02:05.65]Hydrogen, for example,


[02:07.29]has been praised as a clean fuel with great potential.


[02:10.90]But it’s still in the experimental stages.


[02:14.09]Two possible hydrogen plays:


[02:16.48]Quantum Fuel System Technologies,


[02:19.01]which designs and engineers hybrid 9 and fuel-cell, vehicles.


[02:23.59]It, too is losting money.


[02:26.32]Praxair, an industrial gas company, making hydrogen,


[02:30.37]the company earned $2.29 per share the past 12 months.


[02:35.96]French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen on Monday


[02:40.65]unveiled the smallest fuel cell currently available for cars


[02:44.14]and pledged further research to halve 10 the price


[02:47.65]of these environmental friendly power sources by 2010.


[02:51.47]The fuel cell is an 80 KW power unit and the size of a big suitcase


[02:56.84]that can be used in light municipal vehicles.


[03:00.00]It can run for 500 km,


[03:02.86]but still insufficient 11 for general use.


[03:05.91]Furthermore, the size of them remain a problem


[03:09.87]that needs to be solved.


[03:12.14]Another problem remains 12 starting with cold temperatures.


[03:15.09]We can still say confidently it offers a real answer for the future,


[03:20.50]as is put it by the vice 13 president of French Carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen.



adv.向前;向外,往外
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
  • Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
  • The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体)
  • Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
  • Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
n.燃烧;氧化;骚动
  • We might be tempted to think of combustion.我们也许会联想到氧化。
  • The smoke formed by their combustion is negligible.由它燃烧所生成的烟是可忽略的。
adj.同族的,类似的
  • She painted flowers and birds pictures akin to those of earlier feminine painters.她画一些同早期女画家类似的花鸟画。
  • Listening to his life story is akin to reading a good adventure novel.听他的人生故事犹如阅读一本精彩的冒险小说。
n.蒸汽,雾气
  • The cold wind condenses vapor into rain.冷风使水蒸气凝结成雨。
  • This new machine sometimes transpires a lot of hot vapor.这部机器有时排出大量的热气。
n.副产品,附带产生的结果
  • Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.自由是经济盈余的副产品。
  • The raw material for the tyre is a by-product of petrol refining.制造轮胎的原材料是提炼汽油时产生的一种副产品。
n.小机械,小器具( gadget的名词复数 )
  • Certainly. The idea is not to have a house full of gadgets. 当然。设想是房屋不再充满小配件。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
  • This meant more gadgets and more experiments. 这意味着要设计出更多的装置,做更多的实验。 来自英汉非文学 - 科学史
n.(动,植)杂种,混合物
  • That is a hybrid perpetual rose.那是一株杂交的四季开花的蔷薇。
  • The hybrid was tall,handsome,and intelligent.那混血儿高大、英俊、又聪明。
vt.分成两半,平分;减少到一半
  • Let's halve the project between our two teams.让我们两个队平均分担这项工程吧。
  • I'll halve expenses with you.我要跟你平均分摊费用。
adj.(for,of)不足的,不够的
  • There was insufficient evidence to convict him.没有足够证据给他定罪。
  • In their day scientific knowledge was insufficient to settle the matter.在他们的时代,科学知识还不能足以解决这些问题。
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
学英语单词
A.M.E.
Advie
alloprenes
almog
articulated frame steering tractor
bad shit
Baillie's pill
base cluster
bereave sb of sense
branched chain group
buoyancy-type density transmitter
calcium age
closing balance account
common mode performance
complex autocorrelation
corporate migration
cuirass cancer
decision altitude (da)
decorative coat
dioscorea bulbifera l.
dipotassium
discombobulatedly
dumptest
emitter emitter coupled logic
enamel powder
epilobium pyrricolophum fr. et sav.
experimental segment
family Equisetaceae
Flavitan
flexiyear
florek
flowsheet simulation
gallon-mile
Gianthyssop
grooved bone screw
Guthion Plus Methyl Parathion SC
gy-
heater block
Heterotricha
hi-speeds
Hunter's syndrome
hydraulic power-operated steering gear
imagoes
integral casting
interstock hybrid
isokinetic Pitot
isolated collector
japsen
Kendal mint cake
Laksevåg
lap resistance welding
leewardly
leon-
leutnant
lptc
machine utilization
malodourousness
meems
N. C. L.
near collinearity
negative easement
new cacodyl
newholmes
north hemisphere
passive RFID tag
peniches
perspiration absorptive fibre
phosphors
plugging loop
precipitation area
procrustean string
railway in operation
real estate syndicate
red chips
Roberts linkage
safe deposit
schematizing
screw driven planer
senile soil
Slavisms
sleek field
sliver lay-in circular knitting machine
slsascses-s
specialized communication
splurge
streptozyme
swamp maples
that's right
the second estate
Thermochromatium
tri-colour vidicon
trichasium
under-represent
uniprofessional
vaccenic
viscosity stratification
Warburg respirometer
water jet efficiency
water leak
watertight manhole
wildmon
your heart