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
acceptance of single lot
al maqwa(magwa)
Bacterium cloacae
bellowss
biohydrology
blocking (of the indicator)
Bourg-les-Valence
breast off
cadmium orthosilicate
chemoorganoheterotrophy
chiliastic movement
Chondrodactylus
classical civilization
colpoureterotomy
constant-enthalpy line
cross-lightings
cry stinking fish
cut-off piling
data drawing list
die nut
Dilaspan
dysploidion
ellass
endothelial myelomas
enigmatite
euro-creep
extinction rule
faceted interface
feed water storage tanks
financial result
fluoroprogesterone
frog-marches
george washington bridges
green forage
guided missile counter-measure
high - pressure selling
high current
hootest
hydrophobic dust
in-vehicle information system
isotanshinone
katathermometer
largest
laser spectrum
latent demand
lifting finder
liquid displacement gas flow calibration facility
lyotropic number
maclovia
macrodactylism
made bold to
made bricks without straw
magnetic multipole
majestie
meat jelly
mechanical kinetic energy
medicinal rash
mentigerous
mergesorts
month jumper spring
multiple twin crystal
n-terminal resister
nonfrigid
nummuss
omen
open brine tank
open fender hitching
overseas issuer
parabolic mirror
paramedian incision
phytogenetically
piece part number
Polkville
primary macroglobulinemia
pushing prints
radiator plug
recombine
recorded voice announcement
resistance sinter
running-around
safe service life
sea bed material
semihora
sixtysomethings
spermatists
sub-leases
Subarian
sulfonic grous
Sutlej R.(Satluj R.)
tenth theorem of information theory
thules
timed injection system
tonoscillograph
transient ischemia attack
turbo-dissolver
TVBS
uItraviolet absorption methods
Vahlbruch
Valva ilealis
vector FORTRVN
work obligation
zips through