时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   Listen to the last two items on this website for background to the Rena disaster.


  The disaster from the broken ship Rena is getting worse. There is a crack in the middle of the ship which means it will sink. Salvage 1 workers hope the back part – the stern 2 – will either float into shallow water before it sinks or will get stuck on the reef 3 like the front part – the bow.
  At the moment, there are two dangers – oil in the water and some containers floating in the sea. Every high tide leaves thick, smelly oil on the beach and it is killing 4 wildlife. The beach is closed to local people while the army is cleaning up the oil but more than 1000 volunteers want to help too.
  Eighty-eight containers fell off the ship. The waves carried some containers to the beach and broke some of them, spilling their contents in the water and on the sand. The Tauranga harbour is closed tonight because of the danger from floating objects in the water.
  Commercial fishing boats cannot go to sea because they could hit a container. Also some fish may be affected 5 by the oil. Maori living on the island of Motiti usually eat food from the sea but now they cannot do this.
  The beaches in Tauranga with their beautiful white sand are very popular with swimmers, surfers and walkers. Local people are very upset by this disaster which could close the beaches this summer.
  Vocabulary
  disaster – a terrible happening
  salvage – saving a ship and its cargo 6
  shallow – not deep
  commercial fishing – people who catch fish to sell; this is their job
  Questions
  Make a list of questions you would like to ask the captain of the ship or salvage workers. You could write some of these questions as a comment.

v.救助,营救,援救;n.救助,营救
  • All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
  • The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。
adj.严厉的,严格的,严峻的;n.船尾
  • The ship was in a blaze from stem to stern.整艘船从头到尾都着火了。
  • The headmaster ruled the school with a stern discipline.校长治校严谨。
n.礁,礁石,暗礁
  • The ship and its crew were lost on the reef.那条船及船员都触礁遇难了。
  • The ship was wrecked on a coral reef.这条船在珊瑚暗礁上撞毁了。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物
  • The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
  • A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。
学英语单词
activized
adapter bearing
adaptive distributed minimal spanning tree algorithm
akoka
alimentary lipemia
amnioss
anilidic
anxiety-ridden
associationism
austrian airlines
back labors
Bad Schallerbach
beginner
biomethanation
blanket gas analysis
borrowest
bulgren
cat (children's apperception test)
clk.
cock-and-pie
comprime
crash out
cross-country flight
crystal clathrate
derivative rights
dirty poll
Do as you're bidden and you'll never bear blame.
down-draft manifold
dressed to the nines
El Salado, R.
elastic limit in shear
Elatostema subcuspidatum
elbe (labe)
electrical anemometer
equitative
feedthrough capacitor
fertilizer-distributor
field ampere-turn
fight to a finish
flauntily
flexibility matrix
floating thumb
fogden
fourth stage
Gornovodnoye
harping
hiked up
hitch roll
hypertypic
inamoratos
Indigofera rigioclada
industrial-instrument
intestine loop
iris scan
Kaliningradskaya Oblast'
left dorso-posterior position
loss due to anchorage temperature difference
ludent
marine centrifugal type refrigerating compressor unit
metallibure
milch goat
neisseria gonorrhoeaes
nonhierarchically
Nymphula
objective cap
office speaker
oozier
other multimode fiber optic cable
pajamas
panama, gulf of
personal allowances
podheads
Port Noarlunga
quod erat faciendum
radiator thermometer
rallentando
re-furbish
rhinoneurosis
river inversion
rotary expansion engine
sagaciate
sand pike
Saxifraga triaristulata
smooth-bore
Solana
soloman r.
spalike
spiking maul
stationary-welding machine
strongbark
swirl defect
teleprinter receiver
thiamins
Third Lateran Council
time interval analyser
ultrarunner
unrecorded income
unwashable
vapour transport
variable structure computer
waggonwright
yellow paper test