时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:晨读英语美文60篇


英语课

[00:00.00]Fuel Cell—Energy in the Future


[00:09.66]The price of oil has soared from $43.45 a barrel to $65.35, a 50% gain.


[00:19.95]It is transportation such as driving back and forth 1 to work


[00:24.32]and visiting companies that burns lots of fossil fuel.


[00:28.39]Suppressed by the increasing oil price,


[00:31.44]does it ever occur to you that a new,


[00:33.75]lightweight fuel cell running on methanol power you electric car?


[00:38.22]If they work,


[00:39.76]methanol fuel cells could be a major breakthrough in energy consumption


[00:44.13]and conservation and drastically cut air pollution from auto 2 emissions 3.


[00:48.94]Whether they are used to run cars and buses


[00:52.88]or to make electricity for other applications,


[00:55.82]fuel cells operate by converting hydrogen to electricity


[01:00.10]without combustion 4.


[01:01.73]They are akin 5 to continuously-recharging batteries.


[01:06.54]Hydrogen and oxygen are fed into a stack of plates that create electricity,


[01:11.35]with harmless water vapor 6 as the by-product 7.


[01:14.53]These silent, zero-emission gadgets 8 have long been used in NASA spacecraft.


[01:20.34]They represent the great hope of many environmentalists


[01:24.49]to power the first mass-produced electric car.


[01:27.98]Now the fuel cells are favoured by many venture companies through the world,


[01:33.12]such as Fuel Cell, Plug Power,


[01:37.56]Fuel-Cell Energy specializes in stocks of alternative energy companies.


[01:42.14]Plug Power is one of the few publicly traded fuel-cell companies.


[01:47.17]Unfortunately, neither company is making money at the moment.


[01:51.98]Fuel Cell lost $1.58 per share the past 12 months.


[01:58.22]Plug Power lost $64 cents a share.


[02:02.16]In the future, we may rely on many different types of power.


[02:05.65]Hydrogen, for example,


[02:07.29]has been praised as a clean fuel with great potential.


[02:10.90]But it’s still in the experimental stages.


[02:14.09]Two possible hydrogen plays:


[02:16.48]Quantum Fuel System Technologies,


[02:19.01]which designs and engineers hybrid 9 and fuel-cell, vehicles.


[02:23.59]It, too is losting money.


[02:26.32]Praxair, an industrial gas company, making hydrogen,


[02:30.37]the company earned $2.29 per share the past 12 months.


[02:35.96]French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen on Monday


[02:40.65]unveiled the smallest fuel cell currently available for cars


[02:44.14]and pledged further research to halve 10 the price


[02:47.65]of these environmental friendly power sources by 2010.


[02:51.47]The fuel cell is an 80 KW power unit and the size of a big suitcase


[02:56.84]that can be used in light municipal vehicles.


[03:00.00]It can run for 500 km,


[03:02.86]but still insufficient 11 for general use.


[03:05.91]Furthermore, the size of them remain a problem


[03:09.87]that needs to be solved.


[03:12.14]Another problem remains 12 starting with cold temperatures.


[03:15.09]We can still say confidently it offers a real answer for the future,


[03:20.50]as is put it by the vice 13 president of French Carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen.



adv.向前;向外,往外
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
  • Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
  • The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体)
  • Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
  • Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
n.燃烧;氧化;骚动
  • We might be tempted to think of combustion.我们也许会联想到氧化。
  • The smoke formed by their combustion is negligible.由它燃烧所生成的烟是可忽略的。
adj.同族的,类似的
  • She painted flowers and birds pictures akin to those of earlier feminine painters.她画一些同早期女画家类似的花鸟画。
  • Listening to his life story is akin to reading a good adventure novel.听他的人生故事犹如阅读一本精彩的冒险小说。
n.蒸汽,雾气
  • The cold wind condenses vapor into rain.冷风使水蒸气凝结成雨。
  • This new machine sometimes transpires a lot of hot vapor.这部机器有时排出大量的热气。
n.副产品,附带产生的结果
  • Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.自由是经济盈余的副产品。
  • The raw material for the tyre is a by-product of petrol refining.制造轮胎的原材料是提炼汽油时产生的一种副产品。
n.小机械,小器具( gadget的名词复数 )
  • Certainly. The idea is not to have a house full of gadgets. 当然。设想是房屋不再充满小配件。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
  • This meant more gadgets and more experiments. 这意味着要设计出更多的装置,做更多的实验。 来自英汉非文学 - 科学史
n.(动,植)杂种,混合物
  • That is a hybrid perpetual rose.那是一株杂交的四季开花的蔷薇。
  • The hybrid was tall,handsome,and intelligent.那混血儿高大、英俊、又聪明。
vt.分成两半,平分;减少到一半
  • Let's halve the project between our two teams.让我们两个队平均分担这项工程吧。
  • I'll halve expenses with you.我要跟你平均分摊费用。
adj.(for,of)不足的,不够的
  • There was insufficient evidence to convict him.没有足够证据给他定罪。
  • In their day scientific knowledge was insufficient to settle the matter.在他们的时代,科学知识还不能足以解决这些问题。
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。
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
学英语单词
acatalepsia
al-hariri
anti-fermite oil
axial-flux motor
baggage delivery office
be gratified
blared
boko
Briatico
calendering process
Canejean
carry storage system
cell membrane (nageli & cramer 1855)
coarse resolution
Cow-oak
deammoniated
des-troying
dorso-ventral muscle
dry fish fillet rolling
dunagiri pk.
eanling
earthbanks
endometrioid
epithelialized
fidelity bonding
field ecology
filler wad
final sizing
fork-over
free daughter cyst
g.e.m
gannen
GBAS
genus Retama
give someone some skin
Grand Teton
Haizhou
harmonisation
Hohwacht
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hypocholuria
identification of data
imvecility
jack-fruit
jewell
job case
Kondagaon
lacerda
look sb. in the eye
mechanically propelled lifeboat
membranous type affection
Menolysin
mortice gauge
multi-disciplinary
Nagata-misaki
non-calcic brown soil
nonpurposive
NUCOMPS (nuclear core monitoring and prediction system)
Nysh
oatis
ochoas
oit
operator of non-principal type
oxytschildrenit (oxychildrenite)
pargetting
photodichromic memory
placenta capsular praevia
planktologist
platycodin
pole body insulation
product certification
professional school building
pushbutton dial
putaway
recirculating
regular open set
reverse-current device
ring gall
roll-lathe
Saxonises
scabish
sentimentally
serpentine lake
settlement(sett.)
Sitaba
smugging
sonic disintegration
spent catalyst
squared stone masonry
the hopper
the stability
think-so
Thomaean
transparent plane
tropic low-water inequality
turismo
uridine diphosphate glucose (UDPG)
vegetative progeny
Waubay
withincommunity diversity
wood deck
write down or write off of intangible