时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:听一分钟英文-U


英语课
The universe is a big place. I don’t think anyone can understand just how big. The universe never, ever ends. It is infinite in size. It’s funny when scientists say they want to unlock the secrets of the universe. That’s impossible. There are way too many secrets out there. The universe has given us an adjective in English that is misused 1. When we say something is universal, it doesn’t make sense. That’s because we’re saying it takes place or happens all around the universe, when in fact, it only happens on Earth. Another strange use of the word universe is that people talk about their universe. Sometimes they say their universe collapsed 2 when something sad happened. Scientists even call our brain a mini universe.

1 misused
v.使用…不当( misuse的过去式和过去分词 );把…派作不正当的用途;虐待;滥用
  • He misused his dog shamefully. 他可耻地虐待自己的狗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He had grossly misused his power. 他严重滥用职权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 collapsed
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
学英语单词
2-amino-9-p-aminophenyl-acridine
a-sway
agate bead
all politics are local
ampul(e)
anchor is aweigh
appendices fibrosa hepatis
appendicular abscess
Ballyshannon
Beclard's nucleus
Bhagaura
BIXen
blanketeer
champalimaud
channel stringer
Ciao, for now.
coastal desert
coding process
conjunct polymerization
contraction
counter current theory
cutaneous oidiomycosis
dark-colored
decibel measurement
dienynes
dipoplia
direct order cost
douping warp
effective rainfall
endanthem
escaping arc
exhaustive methylation
expansion bellow
felissimo
fimbria fimbriata
fixation reflex
flanged bush
give ... opinion on
goeduck
graphic user world
half-crazy
head share
hemichordatas
hey-hey
Hirst's phenomenon
hookless tapeworm
hydraulic shock
insist upon
iodcarnallite
jumbling
kitching
leaf-cutter
life estimation
Lunning Sound
management ratios
melting section
nickel up
nictating membranes
no-chaims bonus
ORTHOPAETICS
outward unit normal vector
pareis
patrikins
peaked amplifier
perplexer
Phenindamini
Phulera
polyvinylidene fluoride fibre
pommillion
precipitating factors
precipitation inversion
principle of leads and lags
pupal period
refused takeoff performance
restall
salix cinereas
schmeer
scored off
selective capital increase
self-report inventory
sequence of compact operators
serially ordered set
skeptopathy
snap to attention
sophisticators
speculative risk
Spelaeogriphacea
steeks
supremacisms
takes a look
tariff cycle
telephone line concentrator
tenderee
tgtg
thin wall bearing
totemite
trajectory model
transportable radio unit
unsteady fluidized bed
unwearables
Voerså
wilted