时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:托福听力短文


英语课

(man) I want to welcome each and every balloon enthusiast 1 to Philadelphia. Thank you for coming here this morning to commemorate 2 the first balloon voyage in the United States. On January 9, 1793, at ten o'clock in the morning, a silk balloon lifted into the skies above this city, which was, at the time, the capital of the country.


According to the original records of the flight, the voyage lasted forty-six minutes, from its departure in Philadelphia to its landing across the Delaware River in New Jersey 3. Though our pilots today will try to approximate the original landing site, they're at the mercy of the winds, so who knows where they'll drift off to. Even the balloonist in 1793 experienced some uncertain weather that day. There were clouds, fog, and mist in various directions.


Our reenactment promises to be noting less than spectacular. The yellow balloon directly behind me is five stories high. It's inflated 4 with helium, unlike the original, which was filled with hydrogen and, unbeknownst to the pilot, potentially explosive. Gas-filled models are pretty uncommon 5 now because of the extremely high cost, so the eighty other balloons in today's launch are hot air, heated by propane burners. These balloons are from all over the country.



1 enthusiast
n.热心人,热衷者
  • He is an enthusiast about politics.他是个热衷于政治的人。
  • He was an enthusiast and loved to evoke enthusiasm in others.他是一个激情昂扬的人,也热中于唤起他人心中的激情。
2 commemorate
vt.纪念,庆祝
  • This building was built to commemorate the Fire of London.这栋大楼是为纪念“伦敦大火”而兴建的。
  • We commemorate the founding of our nation with a public holiday.我们放假一日以庆祝国庆。
3 jersey
n.运动衫
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
4 inflated
adj.(价格)飞涨的;(通货)膨胀的;言过其实的;充了气的v.使充气(于轮胎、气球等)( inflate的过去式和过去分词 );(使)膨胀;(使)通货膨胀;物价上涨
  • He has an inflated sense of his own importance. 他自视过高。
  • They all seem to take an inflated view of their collective identity. 他们对自己的集体身份似乎都持有一种夸大的看法。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 uncommon
adj.罕见的,非凡的,不平常的
  • Such attitudes were not at all uncommon thirty years ago.这些看法在30年前很常见。
  • Phil has uncommon intelligence.菲尔智力超群。
学英语单词
'staches
Acaroidea
Al Ashrāf
ammonium O,O-diethylthiophosphate
Apelles
appendiculoradiography
are sorry to
bandobast, bandobust
bathyclinograph
battery powered shaver
bearing risk
bell rigging
body retention
bouget
bryaless
bum cheeks
caching controller
charged particle detector
conducting fluid
corpus delictis
credit memo for purchase return
cumbrian mts.
cyclopropanoid
cystine hydrochloride
demideities
derivative deposits
die wall finish
disymmetrical cleavage
do things by halves
Duckface
ecclesiolatry
elementary agricultural producers' cooperation
equall
exponential decrease
fault offset
general average statement
hartmann-cornu formula
heterotic hybrid
hit up someone
inventing
Kashimbo
Keller, Gottfried
Khar-Buluk
limb-fitter
lunar mare
make assurance double sure
mapped drives
mattress ticking
maximum entropy spectrum analysis
measurement quantity converter
mesothermal
mint par of exchang
mixed material hopper
model ecosystem
monocarbon
motha
multiple coat
napta
national vessel
negative test
neutralizing capacitor
nondiabetic
optical isolators for communication
ordinary helicoid
Oum er Rbia, Oued
oxandra lanceolatas
oxygen diffusion coefficient
partial payment
pebble fuel element
perichrome
phentolamine
phytantriol
pigment figure
pleistocene sea level
purpa
radiosonde
recessed plate
rectangular can
Red Kurdistan
rhodhalite (bieberite)
segrin
session parameter
skead
soap-stone
spoonhook
stop out
straight-shooter
sulfur oxyfluoride
superregenerative detector
suppering
T'ma
teach-ins
tetraterpenoid
thematic
Thioril
tractor trailers
trial proof
tychies
Vanda lamellata
varispeed motor
Vuolvojaure
water constituent