时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:国家地理2008年


英语课

In Rio de Janeiro Brazil, where the mountains meet the beach, with six million residents and more than a million tourists a year, a cleanup of the beaches from past years is now a major issue. Until recently, the beach was a place for Cariocas, as Rio residents are known, to escape their worries, and not to brood on new ones. But the issue of protecting Rio’s world-class coastline has trickled 1 into the public consciousness.


Coastal 2 planning was never a very popular subject here in Brazil, despite the fact that we have more than five thousand miles of sand beaches in our country. But people in general, they didn't know. But in the last 20 years, there is a growing consciousness about the subject. And lately people are much more concerned about the problems along the coastline.


That burgeoning 3 public awareness 4 was fueled by a series of coastal calamities 5, including the dumping and leaking of raw sewage, the appearance of ugly parasitic 6 sea formation known as black tongues, oil spills and fish die-offs. As a result, celebrated 7 beaches like Copacabana and Ipanema suffer sporadic 8 closings.


The government is improving the sewers 9 and they are conscious about the importance of this kind of environmental issue. Nowadays, the population won't accept any more dirty beaches and lagoons 10.


Heavy public investment to the tune 11 of about 15 million dollars has been spent to improve the water that ends up on these beaches. For the moment then, the glorious beaches of Rio de Janeiro are getting more of the attention they deserve from public officials. But more remains 12 to be done. In the meantime, they will likely continue to get plenty of attention from armies of beach-lovers, Cariocas and tourists alike.



v.滴( trickle的过去式和过去分词 );淌;使)慢慢走;缓慢移动
  • Blood trickled down his face. 血从他脸上一滴滴流下来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The tears trickled down her cheeks. 热泪一滴滴从她脸颊上滚下来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
adj.迅速成长的,迅速发展的v.发芽,抽枝( burgeon的现在分词 );迅速发展;发(芽),抽(枝)
  • Our company's business is burgeoning now. 我们公司的业务现在发展很迅速。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • These efforts were insufficient to contain the burgeoning crisis. 这些努力不足以抑制迅速扩散的危机。 来自辞典例句
n.意识,觉悟,懂事,明智
  • There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
  • Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
n.灾祸,灾难( calamity的名词复数 );不幸之事
  • They will only triumph by persevering in their struggle against natural calamities. 他们只有坚持与自然灾害搏斗,才能取得胜利。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • One moment's false security can bring a century of calamities. 图一时之苟安,贻百年之大患。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
adj.寄生的
  • Will global warming mean the spread of tropical parasitic diseases?全球变暖是否意味着热带寄生虫病会蔓延呢?
  • By definition,this way of life is parasitic.从其含义来说,这是种寄生虫的生活方式。
adj.有名的,声誉卓著的
  • He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
  • The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
adj.偶尔发生的 [反]regular;分散的
  • The sound of sporadic shooting could still be heard.仍能听见零星的枪声。
  • You know this better than I.I received only sporadic news about it.你们比我更清楚,而我听到的只是零星消息。
n.阴沟,污水管,下水道( sewer的名词复数 )
  • The sewers discharge out at sea. 下水道的污水排入海里。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Another municipal waste problem is street runoff into storm sewers. 有关都市废水的另外一个问题是进入雨水沟的街道雨水。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
n.污水池( lagoon的名词复数 );潟湖;(大湖或江河附近的)小而浅的淡水湖;温泉形成的池塘
  • The Islands are by shallow crystal clear lagoons enclosed by coral reefs. 该群岛包围由珊瑚礁封闭的浅水清澈泻湖。 来自互联网
  • It is deposited in low-energy environments in lakes, estuaries and lagoons. 它沉淀于湖泊、河口和礁湖的低能量环境中,也可于沉淀于深海环境。 来自互联网
n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
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。
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AAWEXINPT
abdominal external oblique muscle
account of bankruptcy
accumulative binomial probability distribution
agonia
allochiria
analog tester
angle of leeway
angle of light path of optical fuze
arteriae ciliares anteriores
augmentation distance
automatic tool retracting unit
ball lapping machine
basic engineering
be upset
Beit Bridge
Bertrand, Cerro
bleher
brahmas
bright fiber
Brill, Abraham Arden
business policy making
buyout bid
cambrovician period
cell differential pressure photo
centrally connected power supply
cheltenhams
colorimetrically
commissioners-general
constructive taking
cost of works for special purpose
CPU architecture
crawlspaces
cryoneny
Cylindrogloea
data acquisition camera
dirty industry
displacive
do-while statement
Duartina
dull-finished sheet
Ehrenhausen
electrobath
environmental theatre
Fed funds rate
fore edge
forestry railroad car
funiculus (pl. -li)
genus Hydrastis
Gotlanders
Granulationes arachnoideae
Greek yogurt
half-band
heat-resistant cable
homicide resulting from passion
humidity-temperature index
hyperodapedon
infraorbital region
intermittent prodromal glaucoma
it is said
it's no use
Kappa carbide
kinetoplasma
lay day
Lebango
mean astronomic latitude
mixing condition
moniliid
nettled
nikitishna
nongymnasts
pars cartilaginea tubae pharyngotympanicae
pee-pot
phenyl trichlorosilane
phenyl-nitromethane
plysses
Pu-yi
rainn
resistance to chemical reagents
ropke
saptha divitiosa
sercambis
shuttle mechanism
standard electromotive force of the cell
stone finish
strobing
sueb
surface emission
tensive
thin webbed girder
towel off
turn off the light
ugets
ultrasonic examination of welds
Umingmaktok
unscrutinizingly
us airborne
wall pressure
window (between wave train)
working plan period
workstage
yield stress ratio