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
0979
alphanumeric characterss
assembl? soutenu
assent to
associated circulation boiler
Aulnay-sous-Bois
axiom of preference
axiomatic basis
basal veins
blood-wite
brachystochrone
brightmen
bunks off
burrhel
Cambui
cephalhematomas
cervantess
chemically-fogged emulsifier
choicer
chondroituria
Clupeoidei
command control and communication
continuous equation
correctness oriented programming
countervailing effects
Darrieus wind turbine
deferasirox
departure event
depatterns
detailed subsidiary records
Drenovets
edible bean
elin-hafergut welding (eh welding)
emergency review
euonymins
exculpatory exception
expense category
extoll
ferry flat
flight frequency
follow the development of
gauge table
genus jaculuss
get on intimate terms
harvest cutting
high pressure gas vessel
hlady
hoban
impact performance
innovation management
inspection on shell plate development
instantaneous e.m.f
interaction matrix
lever hangs
linenum
location clerk
luxemburger
make up compressor
Marabila(Marabira)
marchitelli
marrow reservoir
mass media method
menza
microhylids
Millettia entadoides
mixer amplification by variable reactance
moschiferous
navicula sp.
negative line feed
nektonbenthos
non intrusive means
oscillating detector
out of ... line
oxidizing force of root
pessimistic time
pharm
rami thymici
raris
remultiplied
ripple-marked
rolled piece
scrafford
single car test
sounding scale
spaceward
Spilogalae
ST_surprise-and-confusion_surprising-and-shocking
strich
subcutaneous gangrene of newborn
superallowed beta decay
tea trays
tractive dynamometer
trimmed tunnel
triple tree
troncheon
turpentine substitute
us circuit court
whs
yield equivalence
zagloba
zero shear