时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   First listen to the previous item: Journey to the South Pole.


  Tomorrow an exhibition called Scott’s Last Expedition opens in London, in the Museum of Natural History. Captain Scott and the four men who went to the South Pole with him, died on their return to the camp. However, there were 65 men in his team on the Terra Nova. They were scientists and a photographer, Herbert Ponting. Scott’s team arrived in Antarctica in January 1911 and spent two years there. Some of that time was preparing for Scott’s journey to the South Pole and waiting for Scott to return but they also did a lot of scientific work.
  When the survivors 2 returned on the Terra Nova to England in 1913, they carried 40,000 specimens 4, for example rocks and skeletons 5 of fish, birds and seals. Some of the rocks contained fossils 6.
  The exhibition shows some of these specimens. It also displays some of the scientific instruments they used 100 years ago, some diaries and Pontings’ photographs. There is a model of the hut where the 65 men slept. The exhibition shows their daily life – what they ate, what they wore, how they slept and the work they did.
  Some of the displays come from the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch which has two rooms showing Antarctic 1 explorers. Scott’s Last Expedition started in Sydney last June, then moved to London and finally will come to Christchurch in November.
  Listen to August 20th 2010 to hear about Ponting’s photographs.
  Vocabulary
  exhibition – a public display in a museum or art gallery
  expedition – an organized journey to explore
  survivors – people who did not die
  specimen 3 – single plant or animal which is an example of the whole plant or animal
  instruments – equipment, tools used in science
  explorers – people who travel to a new place to discover something about that place
  Pronunciation
  Note ‘photographer’ – stress is on the second syllable 7 (also ‘photography’) whereas 8 ‘photograph’ the stress is on the first syllable.
  There are four words beginning in ‘ex’ which are quite difficult to say. Practise your pronunciation of these words: exhibition, expedition, example, explorer

adj.南极(区)的;n.(the A-)南极洲,南极圈
  • The Antarctic is a mountainous area.南极洲是一个多山的地区。
  • It is well known that penguins live in the Antarctic.企鹅生活在南极洲是众所周知的。
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
n.样本,标本
  • You'll need tweezers to hold up the specimen.你要用镊子来夹这标本。
  • This specimen is richly variegated in colour.这件标本上有很多颜色。
n.样品( specimen的名词复数 );范例;(化验的)抽样;某种类型的人
  • Astronauts have brought back specimens of rock from the moon. 宇航员从月球带回了岩石标本。
  • The traveler brought back some specimens of the rocks from the mountains. 那位旅行者从山上带回了一些岩石标本。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.(建筑物等的)骨架( skeleton的名词复数 );骨骼;梗概;骨瘦如柴的人(或动物)
  • Only skeletons of buildings remained. 只剩下了建筑物的框架。 来自辞典例句
  • It looks like six skeletons in front of that stone door! 在这石头门前看上去就象有六副骨骼! 来自辞典例句
n.化石( fossil的名词复数 );老顽固;食古不化的人;老古董(老人)
  • fossils over two million years old 两百多万年的化石
  • The geologist found many uncovered fossils in the valley. 在那山谷里,地质学家发现了许多裸露的化石。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.音节;vt.分音节
  • You put too much emphasis on the last syllable.你把最后一个音节读得太重。
  • The stress on the last syllable is light.最后一个音节是轻音节。
conj.而,却,反之
  • They want a house,whereas we would rather live in a flat.他们想要一座房子,而我们宁愿住在一套房间里。
  • Some praise him,whereas others condemn him.有些人赞扬他,而有些人谴责他。
学英语单词
absorbent cloth
Acid Complex Blue GGN
almotriptan
alveolar dead space
analytic aerial triangulation
anaphase in cell division
audio radiation indicator
Banden
baron wilhelm von humboldts
BHIB
bucolone
chesting calender
civil service official
communication between domains
contini
cupferron
cybisterone
De M.
debellator
decorative web
dislodged
doodlebuggers
dyed goods
Eagle's medium
electrophotograph
emission tomography
externally-braced monoplane
federal funds rate
ferroactinolite
fiss
flavicant
fluorosurfactant
goats hair
gydanskiy poluostrov(gydanski pen.)
haldimand
Harang discontinuity
hard shelled egg
healthcorps
Horka
hydrocol naphtha fraction
indigenous alveolar bone
insam
intestinalis arteria
Laval, Pierre
letterly
lie flat
ligamenta costoclaviculare
macro dummy variable of definition
marmylaris buckleyi
Mashileh
mathematics of control
measurement inverter
metal-case magnesite brick
methylene urea
monoclinal folded structure
multi-list processor system
nedy
nonretractile
nonretracting
o-diethylaminotoluene
once-quiet
Onopordum
outhaul winch
peel rubber
peels off
phasings
picture-frames
poor focus
pre-sparking
Rahu
Rayleigh-Jeans formula
reads over
rear ... head
redundant fan
redworms
rescowes
retrogames
Rhine Falls
road appreciation
scallopping
scar-tissue
semi-colloid
seoc
shifting beam carrier
short-stops
single-screw ship
somatoform
subglossitis diphtheroides
swivelling characteristic
tertiary egg envelope
tire size
topographies
TR cell
tuck ... in
unfruitfully
unlocking lever tube
unvoluntary unemployment
Vailoa
vibrator rectifier
Vinerian
wee willie winkie
zarroli