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
a light heart lives long
aesthetic calisthenics
afro-atlantic
aporia agathon moltrechti
aurich
back switch rod
be clad in armour
be out in the cold
black market premium
blandishing
blueshield
brick shithouses
Buitepos
business experience
cactus pear
careeners
cfda
closed policy year
cloud chamber photograph
cometary burst
compotant
crimped fibre
curlating
current sharing
cyclic quartic
cymbella tumida
decontamination station
dehydrated fruits and vegetables
detention hearing
diachronous
docentship
domestic expenses
ducted-fan
dust clouds
electric plate precipitator
equiponderance
export bill for collection a/c
figwort families
firststringers
fission alga
foam mark
fore sight probability
fulleranes
function definition module
genus Sorbus
gives consideration to
gyroscopic stabilizers
hammer ram
hernia ligamenti uteri lati
highest-grossing
hormoues
how make that out
hydrobatid
hydronasturan
in the near furture
information industry
intermediate frequency generating station
jaw-prop
Jeff. Man.
judgment-proof
lecontite
lianshan
lower order need
make a muddle of sth
Man in the Iron Mask
Marcellus shale
megascopically
midbeat
moderator logging
monetary value of gold or silver
multiplication-cycle time
nymphette
panidiomorphic granular
paperback rights
patriarchs
phosphorodiamidates
pinch reset pulse
portuando
power ballads
principal vertical
professeur
puls-
radiation protective paint
reception esthetics
reduction sequence
relay characteristics
reradiation power
riemann metering
salango
scale disc
setback system
stoill
supplementary sectors
surface corrosion protection
tactual perception
two-stage supercharging
unadventured
uranium nitrate
vombatidaes
warbleth
wire-pin printer
zip wire