时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(八)月


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AZUZ: Three countries, including the United States, have warned people about traveling to part of the Philippines, a nation of thousands of volcanic 1 islands located in Southeast Asia. The U.S. says it has credible 2 information about a terrorist threat to travelers in the Philippines'Palawan province. Military officials in the island nation say travelers will be safe.


The Philippines isn't a particularly large country in land area. It's a little bigger than the U.S. state of Arizona, but its islands are spread out over several hundred miles and because they're so pristine 3, with everything from diverse marine 4 life to unique and fascinating calderas, its appeal to tourists is as clear as the waters around it.


PAOLO RENIVA, VOLCANOLOGIST, TAAL OBSERVATORY 5: Philippines originally is an archipelagic country. So, there are around 300 volcanoes. Each one of them offers a different kind of attraction.


I am Paolo Delgado Reniva. I'm the resident volcanologist of Taal Volcano Observatory.


Taal Volcano is one of the smallest volcanoes in the world, but definitely one of the most destructive and violent during its eruption 6 activity.


This is unique because it's considered as an island within an island within an island. So, just imagine the Luzon island and there's a big caldera and the middle of it is the Taal Volcano island. And in the middle of the main crater 7 lake is another island which is called the main crater lake island or the Vulcan Point.


Taal Lake is the main tourist attraction here in Batangas province. It attracts investors 8 for the commercial fishing or fish farming. It attracts tourists who are interested in trekking 9, horseback riding, or simply sailing on the Taal Lake.


UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Going up the volcano is pretty tough, I guess. But it's definitely worth it. When you guys at the top into the crater actually, it's spectacular.


UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can literally 10 see the bubbles coming out in the water. And it gives you a goose bump when you see that.


RENIVA: Anyone interested in earth sciences or interested on how volcanoes form, it's a good attraction for them.


Coming to Taal is like entering a time machine. You learn about volcanoes. You learn about the culture of the people living within the volcano. So, you learn more about the Philippines.



adj.火山的;象火山的;由火山引起的
  • There have been several volcanic eruptions this year.今年火山爆发了好几次。
  • Volcanic activity has created thermal springs and boiling mud pools.火山活动产生了温泉和沸腾的泥浆池。
adj.可信任的,可靠的
  • The news report is hardly credible.这则新闻报道令人难以置信。
  • Is there a credible alternative to the nuclear deterrent?是否有可以取代核威慑力量的可靠办法?
adj.原来的,古时的,原始的,纯净的,无垢的
  • He wiped his fingers on his pristine handkerchief.他用他那块洁净的手帕擦手指。
  • He wasn't about to blemish that pristine record.他本不想去玷污那清白的过去。
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
n.天文台,气象台,瞭望台,观测台
  • Guy's house was close to the observatory.盖伊的房子离天文台很近。
  • Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day.格林威治天文台的职员们每天对大钟检查两次。
n.火山爆发;(战争等)爆发;(疾病等)发作
  • The temple was destroyed in the violent eruption of 1470 BC.庙宇在公元前1470年猛烈的火山爆发中摧毁了。
  • The eruption of a volcano is spontaneous.火山的爆发是自发的。
n.火山口,弹坑
  • With a telescope you can see the huge crater of Ve-suvius.用望远镜你能看到巨大的维苏威火山口。
  • They came to the lip of a dead crater.他们来到了一个死火山口。
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
v.艰苦跋涉,徒步旅行( trek的现在分词 );(尤指在山中)远足,徒步旅行,游山玩水
  • She can't come pony trekking after all because she's in a delicate condition. 她结果还是不能坐小马车旅行,因为她已怀孕。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • We spent the summer trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas. 我们整个夏天都在喜马拉雅山的山麓艰难跋涉。 来自互联网
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
学英语单词
.bv
accomplished offender
according to Hoyle
air covers
AKF diagram
Arabisations
auto-abstract
bespeckles
breakerless ignition
brittle glass
brush turkeys
capable de tout
capped floating rate note
chondrolipoma
codinaea fertilis
conesthcsia
consciousness
current weight
CustomDict
Danfa
Dease Str.
defect detection
dehler
differen-differential action
diplomacy
direct current experiment
disappearing carriage
diseaselike
displacement correction
dissipation heat loss
dorso-humeral region
double melting point
drosera binata labill
eighters
electromagnetic feeder
engineering change list
ethanol concentration
Eurasiatic
favourable terms
film layer
flannelbush
floating-output
flush-through connection
fog-free
fraudsman
gamma decays
geckoid
gladieux
golden cross
Gradgrind
img
in-steam measurement
instrumental match prediction(i.m.p.)
landammann
lifting surface area
lising
Magnolia multiflora
male sterile maintainer
mourning clothes
mullite block
neonesidea lianchihia
nominal performance
nonmetallic mineral deposit
Ouida
oxide tool
oxyhemometer
partakers
primary depression
prolepses
purchased parts
redistributionist
relative relief
rolled food
roman churches
rustproof
satellite campus
shift in investment
sleep-walkeds
slopeing shoulder
small-end diameter
Smilax discotis
smooth starting
software store
sottedly
species-richness
spreadet spreadet wheel
stamping defect
suction replenishing valve
terro
tetra-lauril
thermal shock fatigue
thrust chamber mixture ratio
tightness test
tossing back
total light flux
traitorism
unequal melting point
vorobievite
welding apparatus
William Randolph Hearst
your lordship
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