英语听力：探索发现 2013-02-27 猛玛象进城记 Mammoths to Manhattan—13
时间：2019-01-23 作者：英语课 分类：探索与发现2013年
英语听力：探索发现 2013-02-27 猛玛象进城记 Mammoths to Manhattan—13
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The owls 1 can raise anything from 1 to 12 chicks in a summer season. To survive, their young will have to quickly learn to negotiate the dangers of city life. Longer hunting trips are sometimes necessary as open land disappears. But so long as the city can still provide food and shelter, these owls will remain a part of the urban landscape.
A few hundred miles south of Silicon 2 Valley, another city has grown up on the edge of the desert. This is Bakersfield, California. It sits on an underground reservoir of water, enabling its residents to live in a suburban 3 Eden. This modern day oasis 4 has provided sanctuary 5 for a rare animal, one that emerges at night.
The San Joaquin kit 6 fox is one of the smallest and rarest foxes in the world. Yet remarkably 7, it flourishes on Bakersfield’s busy street corners.
n.猫头鹰( owl的名词复数 )
- 'Clumsy fellows,'said I; 'they must still be drunk as owls.' “这些笨蛋，”我说，“他们大概还醉得像死猪一样。” 来自英汉文学 - 金银岛
- The great majority of barn owls are reared in captivity. 大多数仓鸮都是笼养的。 来自辞典例句
n.硅(旧名矽)
- This company pioneered the use of silicon chip.这家公司开创了使用硅片的方法。
- A chip is a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.芯片就是一枚邮票大小的硅片。
adj.城郊的，在郊区的
- Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
- There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。
n.（沙漠中的）绿洲，宜人的地方
- They stopped for the night at an oasis.他们在沙漠中的绿洲停下来过夜。
- The town was an oasis of prosperity in a desert of poverty.该镇是贫穷荒漠中的一块繁荣的“绿洲”。
n.圣所，圣堂，寺庙；禁猎区，保护区
- There was a sanctuary of political refugees behind the hospital.医院后面有一个政治难民的避难所。
- Most countries refuse to give sanctuary to people who hijack aeroplanes.大多数国家拒绝对劫机者提供庇护。
n.用具包，成套工具；随身携带物
- The kit consisted of about twenty cosmetic items.整套工具包括大约20种化妆用品。
- The captain wants to inspect your kit.船长想检查你的行装。
ad.不同寻常地，相当地
- I thought she was remarkably restrained in the circumstances. 我认为她在那种情况下非常克制。
- He made a remarkably swift recovery. 他康复得相当快。