时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2009年


英语课

 This city of 12 million seemed to be a good place to see how a National Geographic 1 Magazine story is put together. Istanbul, a metropolis 2 poised 3 on both the European and Asian continents, lies right on the fault line that could rupture 4 anytime. This city began sometime around 657 B.C. and has reinvented itself over and over throughout the centuries.


 
A team from National Geographic Magazine came to Istanbul with ideas for stories, but being on the ground, those ideas can unfold freely. With their Turkish-speaking guy leading the way, the team spends the time wandering, talking, documenting, watching, experiencing and listening for songs and voices that could tell a story. Slowly, the city began to reveal itself.
 
Yesterday when we were in the rug, with a rug merchant, a carpet, a carpet will speak to you or doesn't speak to you. There are some places I go. There are just some that don't speak to me. And this one, from the instant I saw it, spoke 5 to me.
 
The group wandered into Armutlu, a gecekondu community. Gecekondu means built overnight in Turkish, and refers to the small houses hastily built from bricks and cardboard. The shoddy construction in most of these communities won't survive an earthquake, and one is likely in the next few decades. The houses are built on state-owned land without the appropriate permits. The women at this village feel the effects of the economic crisis. From their front doors, they gaze at the technology corridor of Istanbul, and dream of working there one day. The group stayed for over an hour outside, talking about those visions, discussing their jobless husbands, playing with their children, comparing pictures, and of course, having tea.

adj.地理学的,地理的
  • The city's success owes much to its geographic position. 这座城市的成功很大程度上归功于它的地理位置。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Environmental problems pay no heed to these geographic lines. 环境问题并不理会这些地理界限。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
n.首府;大城市
  • Shanghai is a metropolis in China.上海是中国的大都市。
  • He was dazzled by the gaiety and splendour of the metropolis.大都市的花花世界使他感到眼花缭乱。
a.摆好姿势不动的
  • The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. 老鹰在半空中盘旋,准备俯冲。
  • Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone. 蒂娜心情紧张,手悬在电话机上。
n.破裂;(关系的)决裂;v.(使)破裂
  • I can rupture a rule for a friend.我可以为朋友破一次例。
  • The rupture of a blood vessel usually cause the mark of a bruise.血管的突然破裂往往会造成外伤的痕迹。
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
学英语单词
abscissions
academic performance
additional premium reinsurance
advertising restrictions
Agapetes pubiflora
alternative feeder
aluminoskorodite (aluminoscorodite)
aminoethanoic acid
bactericidal finish
ballastless deck
bar code printing
chaud-froid
chinacrin
cobaol potassium nitrite
comparative management theory
conductivity determination
crest factor of a pulse
database handler
delay charge
dengue virus
diterpenes
double head porcupine drawing frame
draw out to a great length
dual-cycle arrangement
electrophoresed
ellipsing
enzytol
epcs
evaporator blowdown pump
exnihilation
extended scattering medium
fender valance
florists
Fontoy
fraction of the year
general level of employment
give a whirl
goldfoil
heavy wax
hypercharged
karnataki (india)
kingsnake
lavennia
lead-baseds
liquor tank
Looser-Milkman syndrome
lorddom
magnums
make payments
marketing officer
Maurice Utrillo
Metcalfe's law
mini-frac
minimal space
Mixco
monoalphabetically
multilevel storage system
Musallamīyah
Neurochirurgie
Newtonmas
nontrigonometric
off-center rivet
over the odds
Palmelloid
patino
pentacuspid
pinings
powder dividing table
precipitateness
predjudices
preregistered
pressure-sensing microphone
primary tympanic cavity
remark upon
sand dollar
sand patch
search terminal option
semi-steel pipe
servitudes
short-passing
Shubuta
slow-speed of revolution
sorbitol ester
sorcerizes
sulphurate
sweettalk
tailling
talent coordinator
telescopic feed screw
Teniente modified converter
tentacle ampulla
terrestrial microwave route
Tīnah
unci
universal service
unvitriolized
uraphetin
vulve
waardenburg's syndrome(deafness-white hair-ocular syndrome)
wave front algorithm
wide-brim
zero reject