时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2014年


英语课

 The global average could be up 7 degrees F by the end of the century, wreaking 1 havoc 2 with weather patterns and habitats. We can't prevent climate change by preserving the air's delicate blend of gases, the unique mix that sets earth apart. And our planet is also marked by how this blend sets above the surface in a distinct layer structure. As we rise above the clouds and winds of lower altitudes, we enter a completely new zone---a world of extreme temperatures and ever thinning air, air that will kill us in seconds, but which shields us from deadly radiation. We live in a tiny sliver 3 of earth atmosphere called the troposphere. Winds and clouds, rain and snow dominate this turbulent zone. But above it lie miles of freezing dry air. The conditions there will kill a human in seconds, but we desperately 4 need the high atmosphere's weight and protection. Engineer John Powell's balloon team has spent 27 years exploring its layers, pushing further and further into this remote, dangerous world. 


Sometimes if you run into a phenomenon that we have no idea what that was. we just have this moment of data, you know, that we need to go back and explore. But it really is like a completely alien form of world out there.
The team has made over 90 launches. Each one edges them closer to their ultimate goal of reaching space. 

1 wreaking
诉诸(武力),施行(暴力),发(脾气)( wreak的现在分词 )
  • Coal mining is a messy business, often wreaking terrible environmental damage nearby. 采矿是肮脏的行业,往往会严重破坏周边环境。
  • The floods are wreaking havoc in low-lying areas. 洪水正在地势低洼地区肆虐。
2 havoc
n.大破坏,浩劫,大混乱,大杂乱
  • The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
  • This concentration of airborne firepower wrought havoc with the enemy forces.这次机载火力的集中攻击给敌军造成很大破坏。
3 sliver
n.裂片,细片,梳毛;v.纵切,切成长片,剖开
  • There was only one sliver of light in the darkness.黑暗中只有一点零星的光亮。
  • Then,one night,Monica saw a thin sliver of the moon reappear.之后的一天晚上,莫尼卡看到了一个月牙。
4 desperately
adv.极度渴望地,绝望地,孤注一掷地
  • He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
  • He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。
学英语单词
aggregated rebate cartels
alkali tyre reclaim
all ova
amortization method
anti-balakas
arouets
arteria temporalis posteriors
atmospheric abort
atomiques
autoelectronic current
Awdal
beat-down method
bed-mate
Blachernae
calorized
campward
cautious about
commercial and navigation treaty
commercial grade ether
compilation board
crackered
Dendrocalamus barbatus
diaconess
Dimap
discask
disceyvous
distributed agent approach
Doba's network
draft-depth ratio
dynasticisms
electrodynamic type seismometer
electromagnetic potential
electromechanical scanner
enormly
eucythere yugao
Eversham
God object
ground bass
hanneman
heptaverine
high stable oscillator
Hot foot
if you'll pardon the expression
infinite-impedance detector
intermediate readout
japygid
jians
lanoxin
laplace's transformation
lip synchronisation
liquid overflow
loth
male-sterile line
management account
mcaleese
mesosigmoiditis
monochorionic twins
multielectrode tube
multiple-track line
Nasoulé
network node administration
no-meat
non-conclusive
nondivorce
nonegalitarianism
nonpenetrative
Northfield
nosepiece
Nyquist noise
odourise
or ostrovul
ortho-nitraniline
pale blue filter
peristylus lacertiferus
phallin
Potamogeton wrightii
problem area
pyriform lobes
retd
rokeach dogmatism scale
runcinate
saccharifications
satellite technical and operational committee
seekership
shark fin soup
sieving area
strategic missile support area
superhot
Sébété
telescopic boiler
teravolt
Thorenc
three-dee cyclotron
transgirls
tuberculinize, tuberculising
Tyne and Wear
underwater bed tamping
unseeably
vacuum powder insulation
vertical oscillator
volume mark
zipper low