时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2010年


英语课

 They could not lose. Resistance movements started. They would take over places like this and opened the sluice 1 gate allowing the water to pour back down into Owens Valley. Irregularly they dynamited 2 the aqueduct. But the city rebuilt it and the game of cat and mouse continued for  three more dynamite-filled years. Eventually the place calmed down with a shoot-to-kill policy in the rebellion reservoir. The city had won.


 
Today the Los Angeles Aqueduct is just part of a giant network of pipes and aqueducts all serving one of the world great cities.
 
But back in the Owens Valley, the lake is all but vanished and the river is barely a trickle 3. The story of Owens Valley is not an isolated 4 case. Today there are conflicts over water taking place all around  the world.
 
Israel, the Palestanian, Serian, Jordan dispute access to River Jordan.
 
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia quarrel over the waters of the Nile.
 
On the Indus River, Indian and Pakistanian are in conflict over dams built in the  river's tributaries 5. And these are only some more well known examples.
 
Ten thousand years ago, we lived at the whelm of the unpredictable water circle. Since then we have harnessed the power of rivers to advance our civilizations. We have extracted ground water from depths of the most unlikely places. and we have learned to redirect and store water on a massive scale. Today we have unprecedented 6 power over the planet's water.
But one thing hasn't changed: There are still only a finite amount of water on earth. It seems to me that water is the Achilles'heel of our modern civilization. It's the one resource more than another with the protential to limit our ambitions. The foudermental limits of the water circle are still there. But the lesson of history is that the most successful civilizations learn to adapt to those limits.
 
So the problem is more with us. And that prospect 7 may find you gloomy or like me more optimistic, but either way, at least the future is in our hand.

n.水闸
  • We opened the sluice and the water poured in.我们打开闸门,水就涌了进来。
  • They regulate the flow of water by the sluice gate.他们用水闸门控制水的流量。
v.(尤指用于采矿的)甘油炸药( dynamite的过去式和过去分词 );会引起轰动的人[事物]
  • Saboteurs dynamited the bridge. 破坏者炸毁了桥梁。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Saboteurs dynamited the dam. 破坏者炸毁了堤坝。 来自互联网
vi.淌,滴,流出,慢慢移动,逐渐消散
  • The stream has thinned down to a mere trickle.这条小河变成细流了。
  • The flood of cars has now slowed to a trickle.汹涌的车流现在已经变得稀稀拉拉。
adj.与世隔绝的
  • His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
  • Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
n. 支流
  • In such areas small tributaries or gullies will not show. 在这些地区,小的支流和冲沟显示不出来。
  • These tributaries are subsequent streams which erode strike valley. 这些支流系即为蚀出走向谷的次生河。
adj.无前例的,新奇的
  • The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
  • A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。
n.前景,前途;景色,视野
  • This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
  • The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。
学英语单词
abamperes
Alfredia acantholepis
Allium sacculiferum
anaerobe
anaphylactic intoxication
aquae redestillata
assistant principal
attention-seekings
background luminance sensor
be all one to
blueishest
burrises
can't-wait
censorizing
co-managements
commandists
corticopupillary reflex
coyves
decay-affected selectivity
deluging
dentate fissure
development threshold
DEVGRU
dopiest
Downtownian
eccrine angiomatous nevus
electropneumatic positioner
english departments
estivoautumnal(malaria)
evenly distributed
federal governments
filling area
Fluoromebendzole
foraminite
furuncular diathesis
goddang
hanging down
having in
hear warning bells
heliozoans
Hydraulic Rams
hydrolytic cleavage
impropriety
in-yede
intracluster medium
island delta
kammes
Karagaylinskiy
lease-backs
leslie cheung
mass storage disc
Maytiguid I.
mel'nikov
membrane of stapes
microdicks
midgardsormen
mixture optimum
mournfullest
Myorelaxin
myselfe
nephelite (nepheline)
non-H share Mainland private enterprise
not ready for prime time
obsolete activity
ore extraction
ossa Sylvii
paper document
Passate
photodimer
plane up
population pyramid
portery
Pretty Prairie
progressive atrophe of bone
protective legislation
protohominids
pycnometric method
quantum energy table
reciprocating expansion-engine
resin blush
right side engine
sales van
scale trace
scribbling
single spark-plug ignition
sinistrality
solid nibium electrolytic capacitor
straight-line type automatic sampler
strong army horse
submarginally
subvariance
suppression of image signal
the KKK
the top flight
unvisored
Valkeala
vibrating-reed meter
When I die,the world dies with me.
When this is prescribed
whistlin
White's operation
Yambean