时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


英语课

Cars And Lightning You may have heard that your car is a safe place to be in a thunder storm, and this is true. You might not know the reason for this, however.We’ll learn exactly what would happen if lightning struck your car. At first you might think that the rubber tires would keep you safe. After all, the rubber insulation 1 on appliance cords keeps you from getting shocked every time you plug in a lamp. Unfortunately, the rubber in your tires won’t slow a lightning bolt at all, especially if they’re wet. A lightning bolt has up to a hundred million volts 2; once it gets going, it won’t slow down for much. Remember that the lightning already must travel about a mile between cloud and ground and that much air is usually a pretty good insulator 3. If the rubber tires won’t keep you safe from a lightning strike, what does? Believe it or not, it’s your car’s metal chassis 4! Although metal conducts electricity-and might even attract a lightning bolt-you’re protected because of the particular way that electricity moves through metal. When a rapid pulse of electric current moves along a copper 5 wire, all the current moves across the outer surface of the copper. There isn’t any electrical movement inside the wire itself. The same is true of your car. Although a lightning strike contains a lot of energy, it will all travel along the outer surface of your car, never reaching the interior. The safest place to be in a storm is probably in a house or building with adequate lightning rods, but if a storm happens to catch you while driving,unless there is a tornado 6, then you should seek safer shelter.



n.隔离;绝缘;隔热
  • Please examine the insulation of the electric wires in my house.请检查一下我屋子里电线的绝缘情况。
  • It is always difficult to assure good insulation between the electric leads.要保证两个电触头之间有良好的绝缘总是很困难的。
n.(电压单位)伏特( volt的名词复数 )
  • The floating potential, Vf is usually only a few volts below ground. 浮置电势Vf通常只低于接地电位几伏。 来自辞典例句
  • If gamma particles are present, potential differences of several thousand volts can be generated. 如果存在γ粒子,可能产生几千伏的电位差。 来自辞典例句
n.隔离者;绝缘体
  • Few substances can equal fur as an insulator.作为绝缘体很少有其他材料能与动物皮毛相媲美。
  • A loose mulch acts on the surface as an insulator.疏松的覆盖物在土壤表面起了隔热的作用。
n.汽车等之底盘;(飞机的)起落架;炮底架
  • The new parts may include the sheet metal,the transmission,or the chassis.新部件可能包括钢壳,变速器或底盘。
  • Can chassis and whole-vehicle manufacturers co-exist peacefully?底盘企业和整车企业能相安无事吗?
n.铜;铜币;铜器;adj.铜(制)的;(紫)铜色的
  • The students are asked to prove the purity of copper.要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
  • Copper is a good medium for the conduction of heat and electricity.铜是热和电的良导体。
n.飓风,龙卷风
  • A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
学英语单词
a. palatina major
aitionastic
all-wire anchor line
Asia, I.de
behavioral audiogram
benzestrin
black phosphorus
boomerang kid
brevinine
Buch,Baron Leopold von
business cycle indicator
business efficiency
by no means of
car traffic
cardiac asthma
carloftis
chimaeral
chlomizing process
chrome-plated hinge
colour matrix circuit
commodity theory of labour
completely inelastic collision
copper(ii) isovalerate
die-backs
disease problems
ductus sudorifer
duo-diode-triode
duoformer
elastic low-par stock
electric chafing dish
Erythroxylum kunthianum
extra-crispy
feedthrough line
gasfitter
gate controlled diode
globel satellity system
gotten on it
gravimetric undulation
grease grades
green-crop loader
ground moving target indication
hemangio-endothelioma
Horsten
i-sublymate
inter-companies
interactive visual simulation
intergradations
intrapreneurs
khameini
kulturs
lateral suture
locally asymptotically most powerful test
loraine
manitas
Matsukawa
MCMOS
mean radial velocity
microhemodynamics
money lending business
objecting
order bill of exchange
out-ofbody
overflow position
Pabir
parallel flow gas turbine
passive cavity laser
performance maximizing
picrotonol
Piyanis
pogosyan
postmarks
Premna scoriarum
pulmonary malignant melanoma
quarter wheeler
r.f
raw flax
remote service
retorquing
risk of liability
roelofsen
roiliest
rusty sputum
serpent-like
Settimo Vittone
shear center
short focus camera
short of time
sillite
soil cement road
spontaneities
star-shaped ring
symmetric multilinear mapping
taiwanaleyrodes indica
temporary disc
thermo isohyp
thinophile
ultrafiltration apparatus
uranium(v) fluroride
Vesicaspora
Vitus
wild sennas
yla