时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2008年


英语课

 Dale Aden has been farming most of his life, just like his father, and his father’s father.


 
"I am a third generation farmer on this land." His land is in Okabena, Minnesota, right along the Okabena creek 1, where for many years, Aden watched helplessly as the creek flooded its banks and soaked his crops.
 
"In wet years, this crop all drowns out. And when you lose your crop, it, basically it takes another five years to pay for that one, that one year that we have lost.
 
After the losses took their toll 2, Aden had an epiphany of thoughts--why not stop farming the marginal land and set it aside for wildlife? "I thought it as a legacy 3, I would do this, put it back to where it should be better than where we found it.
 
Aden heard about a conservation program called Reinvest in Minnesota or RIM 4, that would pay him to return some of his farmland to its natural state. The RIM program encourages farmers to keep farming their productive land but sell the marginal land that’s susceptible 5 to soil and water erosion.
 
Aden planted trees and shrubs 6. And here a friend is planting prairie grass that will soon provide cover for animals. "There, you see, she’s taking her head out of there." Aden also made dozens of birdhouses like this one for a pair of tree swallows that will soon get a lot more crowded when these eggs hatch. "They are community of 5 , 6 or 7. "
 
Aden broke drainage tiles and let his farmland return to wetland. "Up to about 3 years ago, this is all farmed. It's hard to believe now, but it was all farmed. Corn and soybean rotation 7 as what it was across the road here it was the same way. 3 years ago it was all farmland."
 
Here’s a look at Aden’s crop a few years ago. Here’s that same spot today, a wetland with a thriving wildlife population. These days the sound of tractors on the Aden family farm has been replaced by a different sound. "As I call it music, I guess, wildlife music, is just wonderful to hear." And Aden is happy to sit back and listen. "I couldn’t be happier for the way it’s turned out."

n.小溪,小河,小湾
  • He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
  • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
n.遗产,遗赠;先人(或过去)留下的东西
  • They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
  • He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。
n.(圆物的)边,轮缘;边界
  • The water was even with the rim of the basin.盆里的水与盆边平齐了。
  • She looked at him over the rim of her glass.她的目光越过玻璃杯的边沿看着他。
adj.过敏的,敏感的;易动感情的,易受感动的
  • Children are more susceptible than adults.孩子比成人易受感动。
  • We are all susceptible to advertising.我们都易受广告的影响。
灌木( shrub的名词复数 )
  • The gardener spent a complete morning in trimming those two shrubs. 园丁花了整个上午的时间修剪那两处灌木林。
  • These shrubs will need more light to produce flowering shoots. 这些灌木需要更多的光照才能抽出开花的新枝。
n.旋转;循环,轮流
  • Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.农作物轮作有助于防止水土流失。
  • The workers in this workshop do day and night shifts in weekly rotation.这个车间的工人上白班和上夜班每周轮换一次。
学英语单词
A good lawyer must be a great liar.
Abū 'Awjā'
afferent fibers
alipogenetic
alkoxyl
ALLTV
anticorrosin
apothecial
ascophyllums
back-scattering
battery discharge
beryl printing
Bilauktaung
Burckhardt's operation
chresards
cochleares
cryophoruses
cut-section of a track circuit
data acquisition facility
davitian
department of agricultural economics
double thread hob
dubinin
electrode shell
Entamoeba buccalis
evolvers
export and import structures
fallout measure
financial and monetary restructuring
fluridizer
for your information only
full scale conditions
geiger-counter
genital torture
genus Melanogrammus
Gerrhonotus
grateloupia sparsa
greengage
ground hardening
guettard
Haloxylon ammodendron
hastate
hygrometries
Ikara
in the gross
isomajodine
jimbes
kirikaeshi
kristyne
let something off
lever riveter
lincei
liver-Qi attacking stomach
Malacosoma pluvialis
Maule, Prov.de
may-blossoms
methyl-p-tyrosine
metrical data
microspike
Microtrombidium molestissimum
miswires
MMDTSA
nuclear-missile
numskull
O'Neillian
on the score
outcomeling
packing stick
paradoxostoma ovaliphylla
Parelhas
plane of parallel
prophetization
public database
quarter stocks
rail tie bar
real-world coordinate
rheostatics
rid oneself of debt
rule of proportion
ruralises
San Mateo Bridge
saros cycle
scrape away
sector distortion
sleeve dog
sociology of technology
souleymanes
Spinotegmental
sprinkling test equipment
standby face
standpipe system
steel tubular handrailing
stepniece
stereo system
sulky with a sore head
superversion
third voltage range
transactivates
turnover ratio of inventory stock
umbound water
volcanises
yanagi