时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   雾霾爆表。今天我们聊空气质量、环境、新能源这些关乎民生的大事。也看看美国曾经如何治理洛杉矶雾霾。


  关键词:
  Air quality issue: 空气质量问题
  Paris Environment Conference: 巴黎环境大会
  COP21: 第21届联合国气候变化大会
  COP(Conference of the Parties): 缔约方
  Environmental protection: 环境保护
  There're good days. There're bad days: 有些时候比较好,有些时候情况很差
  Smog: 雾霾 (就是smoke+fog)
  Smoke: 烟
  Fog: 雾
  Mask, face mask: 口罩
  To bike: 骑自行车
  Skeptical 1: 怀疑的、持怀疑态度
  I don't think it's gonna do anything: 我不觉得它有用
  Cancer: 癌
  Lungs: 肺
  PM2.5 (Particulate Matter):颗粒物
  AQI (Air Quality Index): 空气质量指数
  It can get into your blood stream: 它会进入你的血液
  Air purifier:空气净化机
  I keep my windows closed: 保持窗户关闭
  It smells like gas: 闻起来像煤气的味道
  It smells like burning coal:闻起来像烧煤的味道
  Central heating: 中央供暖
  It takes a few generations to fix the environment: 治理环境需要几代人的努力
  美国曾经也有雾霾
  To peak: 达到峰值、限制
  Greenhouse gas emission 2: 温室气体排放
  Clean energy/alternative energy: 清洁能源
  Natural gas: 天然气
  Fuel: 燃料
  Petrol: 石油
  Electric cars: 电动车
  Hybrid 3: 混合动力车
  Tesla: 特斯拉
  Electric car subsidies 4: 电动车补贴
  Public buses:公交车
  Global warming:全球气候变暖
  Climate change: 气候变化
  Temperature: 温度
  Celcius:摄氏度
  Fahrenheit 5: 华氏度
  It's not the best solution: 并不是最好的解决办法
  Developmental stage: 发展阶段
  Feasible: 可操作性、可能性
  Consensus 6: 共识
  Something needs to be done to save the environment: 一定要采取措施,保护环境
  L.A. had a big smog problem in the 70's: 洛杉矶70年代也有过雾霾问题
  It's situated in a valley surrounded by mountains: 洛杉矶地处山谷中,被群山环绕
  The smog gets trapped inside the city: 雾霾都凝结在城里,散不掉
  Visibility: 能见度
  Research: 研究
  Emission: 尾气排放
  Leaded fuel: 含铅汽油
  Polluted: 被污染的

adj.怀疑的,多疑的
  • Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
  • Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。
n.发出物,散发物;发出,散发
  • Rigorous measures will be taken to reduce the total pollutant emission.采取严格有力措施,降低污染物排放总量。
  • Finally,the way to effectively control particulate emission is pointed out.最后,指出有效降低颗粒排放的方向。
n.(动,植)杂种,混合物
  • That is a hybrid perpetual rose.那是一株杂交的四季开花的蔷薇。
  • The hybrid was tall,handsome,and intelligent.那混血儿高大、英俊、又聪明。
n.补贴,津贴,补助金( subsidy的名词复数 )
  • European agriculture ministers failed to break the deadlock over farm subsidies. 欧洲各国农业部长在农业补贴问题上未能打破僵局。
  • Agricultural subsidies absorb about half the EU's income. 农业补贴占去了欧盟收入的大约一半。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n./adj.华氏温度;华氏温度计(的)
  • He was asked for the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit.他被问到水的沸点是华氏多少度。
  • The thermometer reads 80 degrees Fahrenheit.寒暑表指出华氏80度。
n.(意见等的)一致,一致同意,共识
  • Can we reach a consensus on this issue?我们能在这个问题上取得一致意见吗?
  • What is the consensus of opinion at the afternoon meeting?下午会议上一致的意见是什么?
学英语单词
-d
abbreviators
Albaron
An Lac
anti-asian
assignably
athenes
axial flow opener
Baeyer's test
barbey degree
belt stripper
Benfleet
Bentinckia
bhutanis
bobowski
boundary layer thickness of energy
Calidris canutus
called subscriber testing circuit
canachitess
cockton
continuous sintering
cultural appropriation
default argument
design burn-up
diamond compact
difference module
direct reversing gas turbine
disanthus cercidifolius maxim.
discombine
drill for boring corners
entopic
epinephrine-assisted
eustatic
fixed income ETF
flagellated
foxlikest
gastrotympanites
Glauburg
grillage footing
Guasipati
gunite mortar
hanbys
has it both ways
hide and hair
inhibition ratio
intercalarity
intestinal suture needle
isotopically
jeffreyite
king's knight
loaned stock
location of apparatus
low pressure generator
lucky day
magnetic signature
Manitoulin
maximum contraction
megalonaias nickliniana
meningocytes
millimeter wave fet amplifiers
music-learning
Myacarus
negligible
neo-digalen
Northern Wales
obstipations
okr
oxidation/fermentation(medium)
Parasenecio rockianus
pilot valve governor
plonk down
polyvinyl plunger
postliminary
prerace
readmire
red factor canary
rent of growing stock
repercusses
rhapsodists
second-storey men
secondary instrument
segment bearing
self-deception
soak-quench technique
software company
solidaire
sunbeamy
tetanomotor
thin-layer chromatographic
thunbergia erecta
thutmosis
time harmonics
tractorable
transient overload reverse voltage limit
vanillaberon
vena dorsalis clitoridis profundas
VTAM
wagon transporter
watch chains
water-ball
with spring spokes wheel
zeroing out