时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2011年


英语课

 The reef was left high and dry, exposed to air and harsh sun. A trillion tiny creatures died in their own homes. For the coral, it was an apocalypse. When the ice age ended, the sea came back and submerged the dead reef. 


 
But what brought it back to life? The answer lies on the outer edge of the reef.
 
Will Gadd is heading for an encounter with an invisible force of nature that waits in the same place all day, all night, and all year. It's both a killer 1 and a giver of life.
 
“This is one of the most famous dive sites we have here. So we're at the top of Ribbon Reef Number 10. You see on the other side--You can see the wave breaking. That's the open ocean.”
 
Down here flows a monstrous 2 current. It rips along the reef far faster than a human can swim. The only choice is to go with it. But what can kill a diver is also the lifeblood of this reef. It's called the East Australia Current, and it is the secret of how the Great Barrier Reef came back from the dead.
 
Over 100 miles wide, 1,500 feet deep, and it ferries southward about 30 million tons of water per second-- 2000 times the flow of the Mississippi River. It carries a constant resupply of coral larvae 3 from other reefs in other oceans, ready to repair any damage that the reef has suffered, however big.

n.杀人者,杀人犯,杀手,屠杀者
  • Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
  • The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
adj.巨大的;恐怖的;可耻的,丢脸的
  • The smoke began to whirl and grew into a monstrous column.浓烟开始盘旋上升,形成了一个巨大的烟柱。
  • Your behaviour in class is monstrous!你在课堂上的行为真是丢人!
n.幼虫
  • Larvae are parasitic on sheep.幼虫寄生在绵羊的身上。
  • The larvae prey upon small aphids.这种幼虫以小蚜虫为食。
学英语单词
Achorion lebertii
alkaline reserve
allosyndisis
already-listed
angle of shear resistance
antenna inaequalis
Arbatax
atomic physicss
bar cutting machine
be one for the books
Bellegem
Bhagwan
biis
bilateral bearing
black mould of rice
Blyth Ra.
Bykovka
can feeder
chequer-work
clicketting
compound dl
configuration insteraction
consumer action group
COP (coefficient of performance)
crest-fall
Cross-measurement
cucumbertrees
cufflinks
dado capping
deaf-points
deferred check point restart
deglucohellebrin
dimanches
efficiency rotation
engarrisons
environmental cracking
exempt employee
froken
gas gauging
general once-over tillage
get away speed
get mine
guaranteed efficiency
guyette
ibm tivoli storage resource manager agent
iron stone
Kaura
krypton-85 source
large scale air separation plant
lead autunite
lexicalises
liquid bath furnace
lucernas
luteal regression stage
marginal net revenue curve
melasyenogabbro
mesnyi
mixus
Murzūq
musculus arrector ventr.
newly-appointeds
nonzero algebra
normalism
normative reference group
oil gage
oriental medicine
paint the town red
paraolfactory
parting shears
phosphoranyls
playgirl
plectranthias yamakawai
preheating evaporator
procedure execution stack
processor consistency model
professional workstation
prohibitory injunction
pseudocysticercosis
ran ragged
see something of the world
seepage deformation
separated-gang cultivator
settlement slope
sight deposit
silky pig iron
skreak
small-plate
Sooretama
soyt
standard preparation hours
stone net
tazmania
The ass waggeth his ears
tourist board
truxillic acid
unacknowledged connectionless-mode transmission
Vacutainer
ventricular escape
voluntary contribution
water extract
welding blower
woodsia alpina gray