时间:2019-01-20 作者:英语课 分类:原版英语对话1000个


英语课

   Ray: I remember watching a television documentary in the United States a few years ago that at one point they brought up the subject of these toads 2 that live in Australia that supposedly have some substance that is for humans a hallucinogenic, does that ring any bells with you?


 
  Shirley: Well, I don’t know about those ones specifically but I know that in Australia for example we have a huge Cane 3 Toad 1 problem. Cane toads are very big toads they are about the size of a small cantelope probably, and someone brought them in at the turn of the 20th century and they got loose in northern Australia and now there’s thousands and thousands and thousands of hectares covered with Cane toads and every year it costs the government a huge amount of money trying to control them and they’ve become a pest. And that’s one of the reasons why we have such strict quarantine regulations.
 
  Ray: That makes sense. Of course, I guess we all know about the rabbits.
 
  Shirley: Yes, rabbits were first brought into Australia from Britain, and probably just as someone’s pet and one got out …
 
  Ray: You weren’t on duty that day
 
  Shirley: I wasn’t on duty that day probably because it was maybe about a hundred years ago
 
  Ray: You did say “previous life” so
 
  Shirley: That’s true. Anyway, the rabbits got loose and there was periods in Australian history where there were millions and millions of rabbits and huge control programs and one of the things that they did to control them, which I think eventually did control them was they gave them a disease called “myxomatosis” which doesn’t kill the rabbit but makes them go blind … so they get infected with it. I think that it’s transmitted by a small flea 4 and they go blind and I think, rather horribly, they either starve to death or they, you know, they just can’t survive. And that was what controlled them in the end.
 
  Ray: Uh huh, until they come up with an immunity 5 to it.
 
  Shirley: Yeah, they don’t seem to have done that. I mean they’re still around a little bit, but not in the numbers, not in the plague numbers that they used to be in the past.
 
  Ray: So now it’s toads that are the big problem.
 
  Shirley: Yeah well, there’s other things as well but … yeah, toads are an ongoing 6 problem.

n.蟾蜍,癞蛤蟆
  • Both the toad and frog are amphibian.蟾蜍和青蛙都是两栖动物。
  • Many kinds of toad hibernate in winter.许多种蟾蜍在冬天都会冬眠。
n.蟾蜍,癞蛤蟆( toad的名词复数 )
  • All toads blink when they swallow. 所有的癞蛤蟆吞食东西时都会眨眼皮。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Toads have shorter legs and are generally more clumsy than frogs. 蟾蜍比青蛙脚短,一般说来没有青蛙灵活。 来自辞典例句
n.手杖,细长的茎,藤条;v.以杖击,以藤编制的
  • This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy.这甘蔗既甜又多汁。
  • English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.英国小学老师过去常用教鞭打男学生作为惩罚。
n.跳蚤
  • I'll put a flea in his ear if he bothers me once more.如果他再来打扰的话,我就要对他不客气了。
  • Hunter has an interest in prowling around a flea market.亨特对逛跳蚤市场很感兴趣。
n.优惠;免除;豁免,豁免权
  • The law gives public schools immunity from taxation.法律免除公立学校的纳税义务。
  • He claims diplomatic immunity to avoid being arrested.他要求外交豁免以便避免被捕。
adj.进行中的,前进的
  • The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
  • The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。
标签: 英文原版对话
学英语单词
a carreira
acid attack
air-glass reflection
aldosterone deficiency
amaxophobia
amount carried over
asynchronous logic
automatic meter reading system
bankrupt
barter agreement
battery ore
be weak on
bishopess
burnishing surface
caryophyllenol
CHBHA
civil-war
CM8222
Cobury bread
cognitive limits
coitus int.erruptus
common platform
decimal scale
diphosphorus
disintegration chain
displacement ferroelectrics
drum polletizing
dtb
ectopia lentis
eissero
enter into conversation with
F.I.A.S.
fecundly
fixed sash
fizzlings
freelore
fuster
gelisolifluction
ground-basses
Harrison 2, Benjamin
hole reaming
hop residue
Hornstorf
Hydrangea shaochingii
in-statest
indirect-measurement
inner reflector
interleukine
intra-atomic energy
Irish Republic
Jaggarnat
lactosylceramides
laminae spiralis secundaria
Lexus lane
Lindera limprichtii
lineo-normal distribution
Macht metal
mendication
mizuage
monodactyl
Morellin
multilepis
narcisms
nasal splint
Nemipterus
noelani
noiseuses
non-stimulated
not busy interrupt
oil pressure unit
Opie paradox
orthomitosis
pack-up kits
perspective projection
preheating process
quarternary alloy
radio resource control
refreshable
rockfill breakwater
scavenge trunk
set much by someone
shared main storage
sheafer
single loop servomechanism
Soranus
stylistic component
Syväri
Szarvas
tectomorphic texture
tettigoniid
thiodan
Thymus nervulosus
totalizing
toxicological detection
transport mean-free path
unflappability
unven
vibrating-reed amplifier
vinous tincture
Västernorrlands Län
well-behaved net
wood spurge