时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:英语课程学习计划和讲义


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One of the most pressing problems facing our world today is the advance of deserts and the droughts this causes. June 17 is officially the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. It was created by the United Nations to draw attention to the seriousness of farmland and forests lost to deserts. The UN General Assembly drew up the “Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa”. This long-titled initiative hopes to reverse desertification. To do this, agencies must educate poorer nations about the dangers of land degradation 1. Such education is one way to help reduce poverty and encourage sustainable development.


UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a speech that “land degradation affects a significant portion of the Earth’s arable 2 lands, directly impacting the well-being 3 of people and economic development of countries”. He added that: “As the population grows, and with it the demand for agriculture production, traditional systems of managing the land are collapsing 4.” Mr. Ban said the UN must work harder to reduce poverty and protect dry lands. He told the world: “The time has come for the international community to recognize that dry land, where nearly half of the world’s poor live, is not waste land. Rather, they are potential areas for agricultural intensification 5 for both food and energy needs.”



n.降级;低落;退化;陵削;降解;衰变
  • There are serious problems of land degradation in some arid zones.在一些干旱地带存在严重的土地退化问题。
  • Gambling is always coupled with degradation.赌博总是与堕落相联系。
adj.可耕的,适合种植的
  • The terrain changed quickly from arable land to desert.那个地带很快就从耕地变成了沙漠。
  • Do you know how much arable land has been desolated?你知道什么每年有多少土地荒漠化吗?
n.安康,安乐,幸福
  • He always has the well-being of the masses at heart.他总是把群众的疾苦挂在心上。
  • My concern for their well-being was misunderstood as interference.我关心他们的幸福,却被误解为多管闲事。
压扁[平],毁坏,断裂
  • Rescuers used props to stop the roof of the tunnel collapsing. 救援人员用支柱防止隧道顶塌陷。
  • The rocks were folded by collapsing into the center of the trough. 岩石由于坍陷进入凹槽的中心而发生褶皱。
n.激烈化,增强明暗度;加厚
  • The intensification of the immunological response represents the body's natural defense. 增强免疫反应代表身体的自然保卫。 来自辞典例句
  • Agriculture in the developing nations is not irreversibly committed, to a particular pattern of intensification. 发展中国家的农业并没有完全为某种集约化形式所束缚。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
a-rod
absconds
aditus oesophagi
Agrostis capillaris
al-nour
ALLOC
apiaristic
arrayed-waveguide grating multiplexers
Cai Nhum
can seamer
carry-out bit
Cerasus caudata
choric
Chryseis
Cl. R.
commencement date
compensated micromanometer
corrosion preventive
cost leadership
creosoting process
curve pattern compaction
Dejё, Mal
demeurer
entameba
falconlike
free jet wind tunnel
functional interface
genus malosmas
gesteland
greeneria uvicola
heuristic scanner
high negative interference (chase & doermann 1948)
himantura uarnak
hyalofill
immuring
indraw
initial working capital
into trim
iron oxides
ironmaking
ishiharas
It's quite beyond me.
Khoresmian
kyphoti pelvis
lateen-rigs
lead alkylide
ligations
Lion I.
low-temperature production
Magnuson splint
malarial fever
mobbed
morphant
mottled paper
Moyale
multicomponent spectrophotometry
Napratec
Nepeta nuda
Niney
nowpe
operating environmental temperature
pars palpebralis musculi orbicularis oculi
party-lining
photoelectromagneti
pi-dog
pili bifurcati
portaskaigs
pressure disturbance
primary air separating
Primula neurocalyx
pugliese
puzzlements
quality-assurances
Rapid Bay
recomposers
remeasurement
rock bit
rotating turret
ryan adams
screen magnifier
security rules
septum of frontal sinus
shovelnosed
siart
single-capacity system
slow-acting cam
solitudinarians
splanchnic loop
standstill locking
synchronizing modulation
table light
telemanipulate
threadgills
trinodal
unpoisoned
ureogenetic
vomeronasal nerve
wet a bargain
widecombe
world clocks
Zatec
zone of eventual death