时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:国家地理2008年


英语课

Even as the first day of autumn hovers 1 over American shores, traces of summer linger.
So, every year at this time, nearly half a million people step forward to help, to volunteer in an international coastal 2 cleanup and the results can be staggering.  In the last couple of years alone, an average of 8 million pounds of trash is collected worldwide. 


Please, watch where you put your feet, watch what you grab with your hands, we have found in the past hypodermic needles, we found drug paraphernalia 3.


From California to New Jersey 4, and here along the banks of the Potomac River just outside Washington DC, people don protective gear and comb the coast for trash.


Thirty-five glass bottles...


From cigarette butts 5 to candy wrappers, every little item is recorded by the Ocean Conservancy, the sponsor of the cleanup since it started in 1986. 


Because a lot of our trash that's found unfortunately is not coming off ships in the dark of night,it's coming from land, you know, areas, people who were at the beaches, people who were inland, and things are washing downstream. 


Disgusting, all that's out here, I was so shocked. When I came out here, I thought, oh, you know, people don't litter that much, and I just see stuff on the side of the road, then we've come up here, it's just everywhere.


Yeah, it's pretty amazing. Actually we can pick a lot of that up one day and then, the next day come back, and there just twice as much as it was the day before. So, it seems like there is no end to the, the trash.


At this site, 2,000 pounds of trash were collected in just an hour and a half. Despite their obvious progress, in many places such as here along the Potomac River, the work is far from over.


The river is going to require continued, maintained efforts for many generations to come but we are getting there, this is a sign that the next generation is going to care about the resource and is gonna wanna pass it on to the next generation improved.


Everywhere water meets land the goal of this cleanup is the same, to beatify and restore coastlines and to get people to think about how they dispose of their own garbage. So autumn's wind will blow cold but perhaps not so clattered 6.



1 hovers
鸟( hover的第三人称单数 ); 靠近(某事物); (人)徘徊; 犹豫
  • A hawk hovers in the sky. 一只老鹰在天空盘旋。
  • A hen hovers her chicks. 一只母鸡在孵小鸡。
2 coastal
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
3 paraphernalia
n.装备;随身用品
  • Can you move all your paraphernalia out of the way?你可以把所有的随身物品移开吗?
  • All my fishing paraphernalia is in the car.我的鱼具都在汽车里。
4 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。
5 butts
笑柄( butt的名词复数 ); (武器或工具的)粗大的一端; 屁股; 烟蒂
  • The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。
  • The house butts to a cemetery. 这所房子和墓地相连。
6 clattered
发出咔哒声(clatter的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • He dropped the knife and it clattered on the stone floor. 他一失手,刀子当啷一声掉到石头地面上。
  • His hand went limp and the knife clattered to the ground. 他的手一软,刀子当啷一声掉到地上。
学英语单词
air void ratio
aluminum copper iron
Alyxia insularis
aminoquinuride
antitoxic immunity
asyndetic, asyndetical
atomic safety and licensing boards
Averil,Averell
bakable
barb wire
bogalusa
breakup of emulsion
bronze-graphite bearing
cable turning station
calm water stability
cascade development of hydropower
class of repairs
Clearstream International
common control switching arrangement
confidence upper limit
continuous stocking
credos
cressing
Cysternaviridae
dascyllus aruanus
demystification
depository receipt (dr)
diplocaulids
distribution voltage
documents of test
doubly-balanced modulator
Dunfermline
end gauge unit
environmental radiochemistry
equitactic polymer
Ethtool
euthanased
Fabry lens
fallaci
firearm examiner
foreslow
Fowlers Bay
galactagogin
gravanoes
haija
Hiburi-shima
high angle loft bombing
imagisms
in-core instrumentation detector
inland fleet
inoculation smallpox
intermix tape
irrevocable trust
ISRC
itaconic acid fermentation
Kickstarter
kion(o)-
legal reserve ratio
loss to fission products
lower steering shaft
mean what one says
meningarthrocace
multi task system
Nhu Xuan
night cap
nuaimi
otherkind
overland cargo
Peňa da Francia, Sa.de la
Phyllomyzinae
Plasmogarmy
polyvinylformal
porous powder metallurgy material
portable capstan
Porto Santana
positive area
probolomyrmex longinodsu
recaulked
renamed
Rentrisch
rheumacyl
ridgingly
ryotwari system
S. D. R.
scraping out cutter
sequal
slice mining
slush casting
synthesiser
take sth to heart
tersal
thrings
tipindole
transmission line model
trembleth
unredeemed goods
viro-
Visual Works
viswanath
warm-cold cycle
widmannst?tten figure
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