时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   Bad weather meant that oil could not be pumped out of the ship the Rena today. The waves were too high. Pumping the oil is slow work because the oil is cold and thick. The pipe from the Rena to the oil barge 1 is nearly 200m long and quite narrow, 7.5cm in diameter. It takes one hour to pump three to four tonnes. Another 1200 tonnes are still in the tanks on the Rena.


  Oil in the sea has travelled 130km along the East Cape 2 to other beaches. 1300 dead birds have been found along the shore, especially birds which spend most of the time in the water like penguins 3 and shags.
  The ship is looking more dangerous. The crack is wider and the angle of the ship is now 21 degrees. Three tug 4 boats are holding the ship. The weather tomorrow will probably be better. If the sea is calmer, pumping oil will continue.
  Vocabulary
  narrow – opposite of wide
  diameter = width of the pipe
  crack – where the ship could break in two parts
  Tug boats pull ships into the harbour
  Calm sea is the opposite of rough sea; a calm sea is flat while a rough sea has high waves
  Grammar
  It takes one hour to pump … This is the grammar: It takes (me) + time + to do … e.g. It takes (me) 20 minutes to get to school.
  Can you make other sentences using “it takes”?

n.平底载货船,驳船
  • The barge was loaded up with coal.那艘驳船装上了煤。
  • Carrying goods by train costs nearly three times more than carrying them by barge.通过铁路运货的成本比驳船运货成本高出近3倍。
n.海角,岬;披肩,短披风
  • I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
  • She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。
n.企鹅( penguin的名词复数 )
  • Why can penguins live in cold environment? 为什么企鹅能生活在寒冷的环境中? 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Whales, seals, penguins, and turtles have flippers. 鲸、海豹,企鹅和海龟均有鳍形肢。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
v.用力拖(或拉);苦干;n.拖;苦干;拖船
  • We need to tug the car round to the front.我们需要把那辆车拉到前面。
  • The tug is towing three barges.那只拖船正拖着三只驳船。
学英语单词
active maintenance downtime
adhering groove
ampulicid
Anti-Saloon League
atopic hypersensitivity
barostats
batozonellus annulatus
bealte
bembe ouadaka
Boole, George
bozza
braunche
breast fleet
british house of commonss
budding activity
But.
cackerel
cambrick
cell debris
central government
chacoes
classical least-square method
conceptual data store
control electronics assembly
conventional heat treatement
corpocracies
cubits
demand reading
dihydrostreptomycin glycyrrhizinate
Dārfūr ash Shamālīyah, Mudīrīyat
EHEC
electroscopic powder
enchilada
faroff
fission fungi
fission-product separation
Fond du Lac Indian Reservation
genus Streptopelia
grating lobe
gravity feed lubricator
green peafowl
greyly
hard as a bone
Hnidon
homologous variation
hydrodifferential transmission
hydroxylysylpyridinoline
ichkeria
in the foreground
Knudsen's burette
marysol
medullary anesthesia
Memecylon luchuenense
metalclad switchgear
mining under railway
mission doctor
move to packing
Neiting
neurooncologists
nickel up
nonpolarizing
nucamentaceous
Oedipal phase
oleanna
order Tetraodontiformes
ostrya multinervis rehd.
papooseroot
physical endurance
pili annulati
portable slewing crane
postfixation
primordial pit
Print screen button
process value
programmatically
propudious
pterocaesio pisang
rabbit-brush
ratio geometric concentration
RBE (relative biological effectiveness)
refresh screen
reserve-seed tree method
Saatta
schedule algorithm
semi-fidel
server explorer
sheet lightning
Shuri
spike roller
terebinthine oil
the affairs of state
the cup of Circe
the Danish
to flemish down
trading in
truth-claim
underspecify
undesirable
urolithiasis
variants
wash station
washer woman's skin