时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD4


英语课

[00:09.95]Six weeks ago, the movie "Erin Brockovich" opened the United States.

[00:16.95]So far, it has earned at least 100,000,000 dollars.

[00:22.47]It tells a true story about a young woman who helped people in a California town gain money from an energy company.

[00:33.18]The people in the town of Hinckley accused the company of poisoning their water.

[00:38.84]Shep O'Neal has more.

[00:41.61]In the movie, as in real life, a young woman named Erin Brockovich made a discovery.

[00:48.67]She discovered that the town's ground water contained a chemical known as chromium six,or hexavalent chromium.

[00:58.31]The chromium had leaked from the town's energy company, Pacific Gas and Electric.

[01:04.99]The people of the town were suffering many health problems,

[01:09.62]including breast cancer, uterine cancer, Hodgkin's Disease, asthma 1 and stomach diseases.

[01:17.92]They claimed their sicknesses were caused by the hexavalent chromium.

[01:23.10]They said the company knew its factory was leaking too much of the chemical into the water.

[01:30.31]The lawyers Erin Brockovich worked for began legal action against the company.

[01:37.46]Pacific Gas and Electric paid the town's people more than 300,000,000 dollars.

[01:45.27]Scientists, however, say no one can be sure that hexavalent chromium was responsible for the peoples' health problems.

[01:55.67]They say any one chemical does not cause so many different kinds of sicknesses.

[02:03.09]Hexavalent chromium is known to cause lung cancer if it is breathed into the lungs over a long period of time.

[02:12.81]But no studies show that hexavalent chromium in groundwater causes so many health problems.

[02:21.09]Officials at the United States Environmental Protection Agency agree there is no evidence that chromium in drinking water causes cancer.

[02:34.36]Yet the agency does not permit the chemical to be present in amounts larger than 100 micrograms.

[02:45.17]Government  scientists  believe  that  hexavalent chromium in drinking water is not healthy.

[02:53.48]They have done studies on rats, mice and dogs.

[02:59.46]The studies suggest that the chemical could damage the liver, kidneys 2 and nerves.

[03:08.00]And it could interfere 3 with the development of unborn babies.

[03:14.06]Whatever the  scientific  findings  about  hexavalent chromium,

[03:20.49]the people of Hinckley, California received a lot of money from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.



1 asthma
n.气喘病,哮喘病
  • I think he's having an asthma attack.我想他现在是哮喘病发作了。
  • Its presence in allergic asthma is well known.它在过敏性气喘中的存在是大家很熟悉的。
2 kidneys
肾形矿脉; 肾,肾脏( kidney的名词复数 ); (可食用的动物的)腰子
  • The function of the kidneys is to excrete wastes from the body. 肾的功能是排泄人体里的废物。
  • She got a very dangerous disease of kidneys. 她得了一种很危险的肾病。
3 interfere
v.(in)干涉,干预;(with)妨碍,打扰
  • If we interfere, it may do more harm than good.如果我们干预的话,可能弊多利少。
  • When others interfere in the affair,it always makes troubles. 别人一卷入这一事件,棘手的事情就来了。
学英语单词
abdominal regions
accompactment
air-jet spoiler
Aldissian
alternaria atrans
angle of incidence of maximum lift
Arvilla
aspirator cleaner
atranos (ad?rnaz)cayi
auraptin
B-cell receptor
background projection
banner-towing
baseline-plus forecast
bell centre punch
biogalvanic source
Blair-Brown graft
blocked-out ore reserve
boleg oils
bunging up
calculation of transit period
capillary break
Caragana gerardiana
chloroacetyl-DL-phenylalanine
close collision
coke residue
Costia necatrix
Delphinium leptopogon
digit-symbol generator
exsiccations
family arctiidaes
fan-out-free circuit
fantasy
fibers gold
filing case
Fischer iron-refining process
fitting for self-propelled combine
flammentachygraph
formal homology theory
full gravity block
ganning
granitewares
hauling gear
horel
i am strong
ictus solis
immunologic deficiency syndrome
induced gammaray spectrometry log
instrumentalising
invisible to the naked eye
ionization by collision
it is a gone goose with someone
juxta-
Keteleeria hainanensis
longitude of node
longitudinal mode delay line
main valency
mermithaner
molking fault
monostable multivibrator
najam
Nebiim
nonstarch
Nourydorn
oilgear motor
Oostende
penghu cultural center
permenent dentition
phase-angle difference
piachaud
pipeline address enable
pitots
pregorexia
primary current lineation
psychological film
Rangpur District
Rio Verde de Mato Grosso
Rumpfebene
scina tullbergi
selfbalancing
short-limbed
slow-neutron bombardment
Soil-rent
squeezin'
stock collateral loan
suit someone rihgt down to the ground
Sure bind,fast bind.
table-hopped
tagetes erectas
take to evil course s
tarmacadem
towed vibratory roller
ultrafining
unchangingness
unit oneth kilometric indicating drum
untranscribable
vehicle management
votary
well-near
whisle
whoseso
Wurster's test