时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2009年


英语课

 I have always loved frogs. They are just some of the most amazing creatures on earth. They’ve been around for 250 million years. They actually survived the dinosaurs 1. They come in just about every color, shape and size. But they are disappearing. 


 
I’m Allison Argo, and I’ve just spent the last year, documenting the story of amphibians 2 and the fact that they are vanishing. It’s really serious. It’s probably the most important environmental story of our time. Nature asked me to make a film about the disappearance 3 of frogs. I’d actually tackled this topic almost 15 years ago. (Ok, I look in the viewfinder.) So my knee-jerk reaction was: I think I should move on to a different subject. (It's just beautiful!). But when I started researching it I realized things had not improved in the last 15 years. I felt that I had to tackle it again. 
 
There were too many people who did not have access to information about what’s happening to amphibians. Since I made that film, dozens of species have disappeared globally. Some experts are saying that it is the greatest mass extinction 4 since the dinosaurs. It’s just a huge serious problem. Since the extinctions are happening throughout the world, our locations covered a pretty wide scope. We shot in Central America, Australia and in numerous locations in the US. 
 
In shooting the film we looked for ways to bring a frog’s world to life. We built a little pond set where we could capture some of their incredible athletics 5 in sort of a more controlled environment. (Are you ready? Yeah, I'm ready.) We used the camera called “the Phantom” which allows you to shot really slow motion. (That was the best for him. That's pretty! Do you see?). It really captures how exquisite 6 they are. (Shorter range! More in front of them? Yeah, more in front! Cut. How do you see what that looks like? I think it's good coz at one point it does move a little. And he got a good drop. Yeah, blasted by one… Oh, it’s pretty good!)    
 
Frogs are pretty slippery, and they don’t always take direction. When you are lucky enough to catch a moment, they are just incredible.

n.恐龙( dinosaur的名词复数 );守旧落伍的人,过时落后的东西
  • The brontosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. 雷龙是所有恐龙中最大的一种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
两栖动物( amphibian的名词复数 ); 水陆两用车; 水旱两生植物; 水陆两用飞行器
  • The skin of amphibians is permeable to water. 两栖动物的皮肤是透水的。
  • Two amphibians ferry them out over the sands. 两辆水陆两用车把他们渡过沙滩。
n.消失,消散,失踪
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
  • Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
n.熄灭,消亡,消灭,灭绝,绝种
  • The plant is now in danger of extinction.这种植物现在有绝种的危险。
  • The island's way of life is doomed to extinction.这个岛上的生活方式注定要消失。
n.运动,体育,田径运动
  • When I was at school I was always hopeless at athletics.我上学的时候体育十分糟糕。
  • Our team tied with theirs in athletics.在田径比赛中,我们队与他们队旗鼓相当。
adj.精美的;敏锐的;剧烈的,感觉强烈的
  • I was admiring the exquisite workmanship in the mosaic.我当时正在欣赏镶嵌画的精致做工。
  • I still remember the exquisite pleasure I experienced in Bali.我依然记得在巴厘岛所经历的那种剧烈的快感。
学英语单词
acardias
Adephos
advisory funds
aflatoxins M
aluminum plant
Angerboda
Antichristic
aphthovirus
appeal against a charge
appellativeness
aquanaut work
arch contour
astragaluss
batching by weight
Bragg-Gray principle
butt cable
c-series
character specifier
charge storage flip-flop
chargehouse
consistency limit
copy-protections
deaf theater
desire of
double-sideband multiplex equipment
dray-horses
dummy pill
eddr
electric performance
entocythere
erratic variation
eye-brain system
fazzini
fertilizer unit
fifty-second
flash back voltage
FTIR-Ramanbb
fueling-defueling system
gas fuel nozzle
half-days
hand tester
have belief in
heavy dumper
Inspector Poo-sow
iophobia
Klisura
leakage testing socket
lethal dose (LD)
line-of-sight course
linear wave
locomotive repair in works
loppered
man-induced factor
massicotite
Maurer's nomogram
maybelle
mechanical thermal conversion
Monticelli d'Ongina
Mutāli'
Myodin
niobium-stabilized
noncondom
onto something
oological
otono
P.V. diagram
Pan-Asianism
penalty kill
phosphatidate
phrenicoabdominal branches
piston unit area power
positive air pressure control
post-detection integral
purple osier
push-back
pyxine sorediata
ramera
reputational
responsible cabinet
returned cheque
revenues from special assessment
rolling speed control
rotary planing
Ruffini cylinder
saccharine vegetable
San Jaime
scissortailed flycatcher
segur
Semenchenko
shuttle feeler bracket
somesthesis
sports-minded
successour
time multiplexed system
toggle-type tablet machine
trichroic mineral
tubotaiwine
twigil
Vanoise, Messif de la
variable speed generator
Yandina
yard arm group