时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2007年


英语课

His name is Moby and for now this rehabilitation 1 tank in Galveston is the stranded 2 infant whale's only home and care-givers like Heidi Watts 3 are his only family.


Because he is so tiny and hasn't learned any survival skills for the wild, he unfortunately would not be released of all. Er, but we will definitely try to find a good home for him if he gets healthy.


The 50-pound weeks' old dwarf 4 sperm 5 whale and its ailing 6 mother were found on Jamaica Beach as tropical storm Erin lashed 7 Galveston Island. Members of the Texas Marine 8 Mammal Stranding 9 Network worked quickly to try and save the pair.


Both the mother and calves 10 were swimming together within the first 24 hours, however, the mother's condition was obviously declining.Er, so unfortunately, she passed away.


Watts says there are no wounds or outward clues to indicate why the mother died. Whale strandings are considered rare on the Texas Gulf 11 Coast, especially in mother-calf 12 strandings. Rescuers are now putting their attention toward Moby. The 3.5-foot infant whale is being fed through a tube pushed into his mouth.


The formula is extremely expensive. It's about 400 dollars a day to keep this baby whale fed. So we are just asking for help and donations to, to be able to continue supporting this calf.


Moby will remain in the rehabilitation tank at a National Oceanic and Atmospheric 13 Administration Facility. It's hoped he will one day be adopted by a zoo or aquarium 14. But for now, rescuers are taking it one day at a time, focusing first on trying to get the infant whale healthy.


It's, it's gonna be hard not to get too attached.



1 rehabilitation
n.康复,悔过自新,修复,复兴,复职,复位
  • He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
  • No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
2 stranded
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
3 watts
(电力计量单位)瓦,瓦特( watt的名词复数 )
  • My lamp uses 60 watts; my toaster uses 600 watts. 我的灯用60瓦,我的烤面包器用600瓦。
  • My lamp uses 40 watts. 我的灯40瓦。
4 dwarf
n.矮子,侏儒,矮小的动植物;vt.使…矮小
  • The dwarf's long arms were not proportional to his height.那侏儒的长臂与他的身高不成比例。
  • The dwarf shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. 矮子耸耸肩膀,摇摇头。
5 sperm
n.精子,精液
  • Only one sperm fertilises an egg.只有一个精子使卵子受精。
  • In human reproduction,one female egg is usually fertilized by one sperm.在人体生殖过程中,一个精子使一个卵子受精。
6 ailing
v.生病
  • They discussed the problems ailing the steel industry. 他们讨论了困扰钢铁工业的问题。
  • She looked after her ailing father. 她照顾有病的父亲。
7 lashed
adj.具睫毛的v.鞭打( lash的过去式和过去分词 );煽动;紧系;怒斥
  • The rain lashed at the windows. 雨点猛烈地打在窗户上。
  • The cleverly designed speech lashed the audience into a frenzy. 这篇精心设计的演说煽动听众使他们发狂。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 marine
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
9 stranding
n.(船只)搁浅v.使滞留,使搁浅( strand的现在分词 )
  • The airport had to be closed, stranding tourists. 机场被迫关闭,造成游客滞留。 来自辞典例句
  • The stream of history had changed course away from him, stranding him in failure. 历史潮流已经改变方向,与他背道而驰,使他陷于失败之中。 来自辞典例句
10 calves
n.(calf的复数)笨拙的男子,腓;腿肚子( calf的名词复数 );牛犊;腓;小腿肚v.生小牛( calve的第三人称单数 );(冰川)崩解;生(小牛等),产(犊);使(冰川)崩解
  • a cow suckling her calves 给小牛吃奶的母牛
  • The calves are grazed intensively during their first season. 小牛在生长的第一季里集中喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》
11 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
12 calf
n.小牛,犊,幼仔,小牛皮
  • The cow slinked its calf.那头母牛早产了一头小牛犊。
  • The calf blared for its mother.牛犊哞哞地高声叫喊找妈妈。
13 atmospheric
adj.大气的,空气的;大气层的;大气所引起的
  • Sea surface temperatures and atmospheric circulation are strongly coupled.海洋表面温度与大气环流是密切相关的。
  • Clouds return radiant energy to the surface primarily via the atmospheric window.云主要通过大气窗区向地表辐射能量。
14 aquarium
n.水族馆,养鱼池,玻璃缸
  • The first time I saw seals was in an aquarium.我第一次看见海豹是在水族馆里。
  • I'm going to the aquarium with my parents this Sunday.这个星期天,我要和父母一起到水族馆去。
学英语单词
a small amount
Africarn tapeworm
albileberis sinensis
Alexandra Palace
amoks
anorthoscopes
antiptoses
area diagram
at one stroke of the pen
attrition mill
back mutation
behavin'
Bombycillidae
British Association screw thread
Britpicking
building search path
buttress weir
cdo
cervical rigidity
cespitosas
cholesterinemia
circumacetabular fold
citrus mayerii y. tanaka
colors of mineral
continuous convergence scheme
crabapple jellies
cyberpredators
Damnatz
database-agnostic
decimal gauge
deiktic
duplex-spiral classifier
eccentricity of ellipse
electrokinetic moment
extension of fire
figure of syllogism
glucosinolates
Graeae
grammatical word function
gross domestic investments
gunny sack forming machine
had need
hakkio
halde
hewisons
Ilex polypyrena
install cost
intuitionistic logic
invertibility condition
longitudinal delay-line
moderately slow permeability
musser
nephrotome plate
nezahualcoyotl
Nieuw-Vennep
oil conservations
orthomagmatic residual liquid
p20
phenological phenomenon
phosphoimaging
phylum Brachiopoda
phytochemical synthesis
pit rail
Plessa
preponderer
prickly tongue
proceeds
prophet
protective block
protective current density
ramus acromialis arteriae thoracoacromialis
rebaited
rheobase
rounding
Saw-set
segnotic
shunyata
single-stage system
slip a disk
speed control gear
St Martin's summer
stability augmentor
Stannoram
step-down ratio
stercorariuss
swanked
terrace-houses
thanes
thiobenzanilide
tollgatherers
tri-amping
tristania conferta r.br.
tryptathionine
undergirth
unmaddest
valve knocking
variable ratio
veitchberry
Waikato R.
wide dynamic range
zoophil psychosis