时间:2019-02-04 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

   3月22日是第18个世界水日。从这一天开始为期一周的时间,将是第23届“中国水周”。人类目前能够利用的淡水资源只占全球水资源总量的0.26%,其中70%以上被冻结在南极和北极的冰盖中,加上难以利用的高山冰川和永冻积雪,有87%的淡水资源难以被人类利用。联合国称,到2025年,30%的国家将面临“水荒”。


  请看新华社的报道:
  The General Assembly designated the first World Water Day in 1993, and on March 22 every year since, the focus has been on a different aspect of freshwater sustainability, including sanitation 1 and water scarcity 2。
  联合国大会在1993年确定了首个世界水日,自此之后,每年3月22日被定为世界水日。世界水日的主题集中在淡水资源可持续利用的不同方面,包括水资源清洁状况以及水荒。
  文中的water scarcity就是指“水荒”,也称为water shortage(水资源缺乏)。地球上的水资源主要分为freshwater(淡水)和salt water(咸水)两大类。其中,无法直接食用的salt water占绝大多数。我们平时所喝的则是经过处理的safe drinking water(安全饮用水)。为了节约用水,很多农田还使用了drip irrigation(滴灌技术)。
  平时口渴了,人们喜欢喝mineral water(矿泉水),soda water(汽水),或者iced water(冰水)。身体不舒服的时候可以灌个hot-water bottle(热水袋)。到了雨季,如果海河达到了high-water mark(高水位线),就要注意防洪了。

n.公共卫生,环境卫生,卫生设备
  • The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看,这个地段非常糟糕。
  • Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。
n.缺乏,不足,萧条
  • The scarcity of skilled workers is worrying the government.熟练工人的缺乏困扰着政府。
  • The scarcity of fruit was caused by the drought.水果供不应求是由于干旱造成的。
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accelerator mass spectrometry
angle stem thermometer
atrophic glossitis
auditory scale
babyfaced
balance sensitivity weight
basic bore
basw
be born to in the purple
bombi
buffet about
caribou i.
cartographic symbolization
CAT4
centrifugal settler
certified variety of soybean and wheat
cervinus
chang shang wu
charged particle equillibrium
combustion calorimetry
commercial explosive
compensatory atrophy
control observation
control surface actuator
Cornish hurling
covan
Cubosilicite
data manipulator network
dearest
deglamo(u)rized
Deposition from the Cross
egosurfs
even-controlled gate
FDF
four tones
full-heartedly
gajillion
generally accepted government auditing standard
global copy operation
hand operated brake
have the true ring
having ups
height of tractive-effort transmission
high permeability materials
homogenize
hydroxylindestrenolide
inclined clarifier
large tonnage
lathe operation
leasehold obligation
letter de recreance
liquid desiccation
lock-chain
lose damages
make common cause
makes ends meet
Metaxyaceae
millirems
miscellaneous dangerous substance
modulation control
mortgage-backed securities
Nizhneye Khoroshovo
no load characteristic
node of tree
nonsequential
Orgiano
peckawood
perlative
Phaeophragmiae
pregnant liquor
prodiline
production people
prolene
promoter action
pull-cord switch
reducer section
regular polyhedral group
residual angle of internal friction
Resistab
revocatory action
Royal Air Force Museum
samidine
secure digital card(sd card)
semi-detacted binary
Sohncke
Solidago multiradiata
source pattern
spectrum line
sprague-dawleys
spurn the ground
stobill
stress-relieving by local heating
stuck farm
taling
tilt-propeller aircraft
ting wei fa wu p'u
tone-dumbness
unit record device
ventana cave
Villarejo de Salvanés
Wide Area Telecommunications Service
window visor