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。
学英语单词
acanthurus triostegus
acc (adaptive control constraint)
acepiphylline
agouaras
allopatrically
anti-rotation device
anticlimb
antiphthisic
ass pounding
axodendritic
bell-bottoms
birthin'
blade endosseous implant
bodyboarded
Boipeba, I.
boundary of compartment
broken up with
Cantica
chronotoxicity
clothing hair
cookrooms
crenophilus
cunt lips
curatresses
drift marker
economic profits
enshrines
false oat
flanged piston
flasher dropping
fluorescence efficiency yield
fusite
grizzles
had the digesting of an ostrich
Il'ya
imbecilitating
imbounding
internal design
job processing monitor
keep in touch
leak current
Lone Star tick
LPOH
lymphnode tuberculosis
macrodome
marbled white
matters of domestic jurisdiction
mechanical-foam nozzle
meningoradiculitis
metallic crystal
metallometer
mustela martes
n-butylene
name screening
netsurf
nosophytes
organ of taste
Pandroseum
parasitic disease of diaphragm
Patri
pleasantable
posterior scrotal branches
prefect
pregnant urine hormone
Primel, Pte.de
prinzler
push-fits
rat race circuit
remolten
replanters
retroregulation
Ritesh
road-course
Royal Bank of Scotland Group
run that by me again!
saleet
scattered and peeled
shimmer-free
solid-state sintering
special sensor microwave/temperature (ssm/t)
squeezableness
stroke number
stud tube water wall
surge ring
sweeping repetition time
tent-shaped
thermal cyclic rating
third-growth
ticilimumab
Tigerman, Stanley
torch corona
travelling gantry crane
tribute and taxes
universal inter face
vincristine sulfate
vocational preference inventory
width of ruled area
win the victory over
yankev