时间:2019-01-23 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2012年


英语课

 It’s suddenly just so hot. It’s quite ncie and cool in the breeze of like 100-mile-an-hour slipstream. But suddenly you realize it is very, very hot. And it’s also just huge. Look at this. 


 
First thing, find a vantage point to see where you are. The Kimberly may be the size of California, but this area of the outback has only one highway across it. For millennia 1, this land has been completely undeveloped. And the only people who live here are Australia’s famous bushmen—the Aborigines. It’s their skills and knowledge that I’ll use to show you how to survive in this wild landscape. 
 
Wow, look at that. 
 
And this vast landscape is typical of the outback in northern Australia. It’s a mixture of huge scrub deserts, dry riverbeds and red sandstone cliffs full of deep gorges 2. It must be over a hundred degrees Fahrenheit 3. It’s devastatingly 4 hot here. But first, get your bearings. There’s a major highway that runs through the south of here about 150 miles away. 
 
But much closer and to the northwest, I know also there’re a few small towns. And there will be plenty of dirt tracks. But first of all, I’m gonna work out which way is northwest. And what I can do is use the sun and my watch. And the technique in the southern hemisphere is you point 12 hour at the sun, and half way between there and the hour hand is north. So that’s north, and that’s northwest. 
 
So head northwest until you find a river which should lead to the coast. But before heading out into the great outback, here’s a little trick. I’m gonna spread my parachute out as a marker. So it’s visible from the air. And I’ll leave an arrow pointing towards the direction that I’ve gone.

n.一千年,千禧年
  • For two millennia, exogamy was a major transgression for Jews. 两千年来,异族通婚一直是犹太人的一大禁忌。
  • In the course of millennia, the dinosaurs died out. 在几千年的时间里,恐龙逐渐死绝了。
n.山峡,峡谷( gorge的名词复数 );咽喉v.(用食物把自己)塞饱,填饱( gorge的第三人称单数 );作呕
  • The explorers were confronted with gorges(that were)almost impassable and rivers(that were)often unfordable. 探险人员面临着几乎是无路可通的峡谷和常常是无法渡过的河流。 来自辞典例句
  • We visited the Yangtse Gorges last summer. 去年夏天我们游历了长江三峡。 来自辞典例句
n./adj.华氏温度;华氏温度计(的)
  • He was asked for the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit.他被问到水的沸点是华氏多少度。
  • The thermometer reads 80 degrees Fahrenheit.寒暑表指出华氏80度。
adv. 破坏性地,毁灭性地,极其
  • She was utterly feminine and devastatingly attractive in an unstudied way. 她温存无比,魅力四射而又绝不矫揉造作。
  • I refuted him devastatingly from point to point. 我对他逐项痛加驳斥。
学英语单词
Aconitum spicatum
advantageouser
Agrostis sibirica
al-ashari
ASLH
auricular cartilage (or conchal cartilage)
average information content
benzopyranium salt
bfv
branches of tuber cinereum
brushing primer
butt trumpets
castable refractories
centrailzed lubrication
chucked
couch hop
cross-section profile
cure activating agent
cycloisomerization
Delivery and Taking Delivery of Tally
deliveryperson
detrimental impurity
Diuretobis
doctrine of incorporaton
dunking sonar
episodicity
feeder head
flesh blond
furcal arm
grazing entrance
gyro horizon
Hamburg, Flughafen
high frequency motor generator
home-away-from-home
hydromarchite
hypercalcipexy
indirect comparison
intentional tremor
internal integration
jenny scaffold
jubon
karst phenomena
language information processing science
Luvarus
maginot-minded
main tapping
management and general expenses
marrison
Meerwein's salt
meeting of the minds
metal saw blade
Météren
narrow cut petroleum fractions
nonarguments
nuclear power stations
open style
operating window
osmium(iv) fluoride
particle in cell computing method (picm)
pathological findings
pentaerythritol chloral
perridiculous
primary reflection
proptometer
pseudocalamobius niisatoi
purple-topped
reactor poison skirt
relocatable subroutine
request queue
resorcin monoacetate
rieck
rolled oatss
Salvia farinacea
sancha
sauvignon blancs
scales of cheirolepis
schedule control system criteria
serve ... term
shear plan
showboater
Sibolga
solid film lubricant
space acceleration
starve the beast
strain gauge indicator
systemwide
temporins
tender for sth
then-and-now
tightcoil
trinquet
Umm Hītān
undecalcified
undraping
upper-level high
uterine seizing forceps
valvula sinus coronarii
visual test film
w?n shu nu
yellow trumpetbush
yellow-fevers
yobbo