时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   A fire started in the engine of a truck, 100m deep in a gold mine in Waihi at 5am this morning. Twenty-eight men were working in the mine at the time, some of them 300m underground. They immediately went to a safety chamber 1 which is a large metal shed with enough oxygen for 36 hours or more. There are three safety chambers 2 in this mine, each one big enough for 20 people. They have a phone and radio, water, a toilet as well as books and cards. It took about seven hours to rescue the men from the three safety chambers – eight men in one, five in another and 15 in the third one. They were all well and able to walk to the truck which drove them out of the mine. One man may be suffering from smoke inhalation.


  There is no danger from an explosion in a gold mine, unlike in a coal mine. The mine had regular safety practices so the men knew what to do. However, it was a worrying time until all the men were rescued.
  The fire is still burning but will probably die out in a day or two.
  Waihi is on the Coromandel peninsula, 140km south-east of Auckland. Gold was first discovered in Coromandel in1852.
  Vocabulary
  chamber – room
  inhalation – breathing in smoke
  fire dies (out) – stops by itself
  peninsula – land like a finger
  Grammar
  ?It took about seven hours to rescue …
  Can you make other sentences using ‘It takes’ or ‘It took’ e.g. It takes two hours to drive to Waihi from Auckland. It takes (me) 20 minutes to walk to school.
  ?a worrying time – people were worried
  Many adjectives are like this in English e.g. a tiring job, people are tired; an interesting talk, people are interested; surprising/ surprised; amazing / amazed; frightening / frightened

n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所
  • For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说,牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
  • The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。
n.房间( chamber的名词复数 );(议会的)议院;卧室;会议厅
  • The body will be removed into one of the cold storage chambers. 尸体将被移到一个冷冻间里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Mr Chambers's readable book concentrates on the middle passage: the time Ransome spent in Russia. Chambers先生的这本值得一看的书重点在中间:Ransome在俄国的那几年。 来自互联网
学英语单词
accounting by month
adduces
afp reblocking program
aginactin
Albanic
alexandrinuss
anderson-brinkman- morel state
antiodorant
apoglycogen
atretic
Avicennia marina
avocourts
azimuth and range
bast zone
biotherms
boat tiller
bunya pine
Bégon
calcifying epithelioma of malherbe
call by name parameter
cherry-sized
choleuria
commoditie
common substructure
construction finished
creditor's equity
Dashtobod
decollated
Dessie
dextrosum
dieng
dihydroepicandrosterone
eighty-two
Electroflour
embrute
exchange energy
fore-bay
formatted field definition
Fowles
geeken's diagram
geometric configuration
goggle eye
have trust in
heater steam coil
heimo
high power coastal station
horizontal evolution
hyperconcentrations
king of the forest
Lashkar-e-Taiba
leakseeker
liability accounts
liquid space velocity
Masāhūn, Kūh-e
meduseld
mode indication
movt
mysteries of a trade
named entry
non-zero spin
ocutome
ogalalas
opler
oversocializing
pc.1
perceptual proof
posthumanisms
precampaign
pressurewire
radii loss
regular ramification
Renver's funnel
Rheem Valley
ring twister
Sanquinarine
Sao Tome and Principe
scan control unit
Scheffau
second stage cooler
shent
simple branched alveolargland
single-core optical connector
sinusitis
soil horizontal distribution
superconducting power transmission
Swedeling
tantalum filament
tavares
tempon
titanias
Toltecan
total net weight
triisobutyltin bromide
twangster
two-station molding machine
universally valid formula
unsolomonize
upcraft
word cycle operation
Wǒnhung-ri
zinc caprylate