时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2016年10月


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Stories from Egypt and Peru start things off today.


Our first report is from North Africa. Scientists examining the Great Pyramid of Giza think they might have discovered two hidden rooms in the structure. The Great Pyramid is the largest of Giza's three pyramids. Researchers believe it was built more than 4,500 years ago.


Scientists have been scanning the pyramid, kind of like taking x-rays and heat scans of it, and they detected what could be unknown cavities or rooms inside the structure. More tests are needed before researchers can be sure these rooms are significant. At this point, they only add to the mysteries of the Great Pyramid.


Another mystery is troubling officials in South America. Thousands of critically endangered frogs living near Peru's Lake Titicaca have died and no one knows why. The Titicaca water frog has struggled in recent decades. It's been overhunted for food, it's lost parts of its habitat, exotic trout 1 have been eaten the frog's tadpoles 2.


But investigators 3 are trying to find out what's causing so many of them to suddenly turn up dead. Some residents of the area think that raw sewage coming from a nearby city might be killing 4 the frog.



1 trout
n.鳟鱼;鲑鱼(属)
  • Thousands of young salmon and trout have been killed by the pollution.成千上万的鲑鱼和鳟鱼的鱼苗因污染而死亡。
  • We hooked a trout and had it for breakfast.我们钓了一条鳟鱼,早饭时吃了。
2 tadpoles
n.蝌蚪( tadpole的名词复数 )
  • The pond teemed with tadpoles. 池子里有很多蝌蚪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Both fish and tadpoles have gills. 鱼和蝌蚪都有鳃。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
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access programme
analogue recording
argument value
Armistice Day
aspersoria
ass breaths
assignee in involvency
auerswaldiella lithocarpicola
belligerent
Bologna flask
branding irons
building block valve
cementing property
chansler
chaotic deposit
commercialization of housing
controlled wall blasting
crosswise inheritance
cryogenic liquid tank
davyds
decision method
Dhahab, Wādī
divulgate
down-market
Drypetes salicifolia
electronic musical instrument
enterlacing
farmage
fine-gauge machine
Finnan
flight balance
flight dynamics officer
fluming
full graphic panel
full-farest
galianoes
genus althaeas
germ bread
handirons
head-to-row test
heat rum test
hepta-valent neptunium ion
homoeopath
hypermetropic eye
inlays
Isospora bigemina
jdb
La Clayette
lauroyls
law lords
let it die
lymphotoxins
Mazomeno
Meggers lamp
modular analog computer
multiple directional control valve
myskina
nasutitermes takasagoensis
non-classical prescriptions
Novomikanit
nulhomotopic
octosyllables
on-again
overtaken vessel
parabathymyrus brachyrhynchus
partes glabra
polyatomic species
pool water
precision pressure gauge
profilin
pseudo-rational
q.suff.
quick off the mark
reddish podsol
relative soil moisture
rubber tapper
semi-reflecting mirror
sinus barotrauma
slaunwhite
Slonsk
sneak up on
stakeout
stationary knockout grid
steel rust removing
sulphur cauldron
sweitzer
tangential tool holder
Teng-chou
the grove of Academe
themus (themus) pallidipes
therapeutic(al) dose
tiendas
time-experience
topsin methyl-thiram wettable powder
torode
tracking radar
vasoligations
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vo2
wheel tyres
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