时间:2019-02-21 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


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Heatwave or Glorious Sunshine? 热浪还是灿烂阳光?


However, there is some bad news too. Health agencies confirmed there has been a significant rise in the number of fatalities 1 in the UK since the start of the latest hot spell two weeks ago.


A warning was issued by the Health Protection Agency ahead of the latest heatwave, alerting people to the potential health risks.


Clearly, the elderly, and people with certain medical conditions such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, are the most vulnerable.


Persistent 2 hot weather can also cause rashes, fluid retention 3, dizziness and even fainting.


Heatstroke is the most dangerous condition, where the body can no longer control its temperature and people become confused, disorientated, have fits and fall unconscious.


So what can you do to limit the risks?


Top tips for keeping cool include wearing loose cotton clothes and spraying or splashing your face and the back of your neck with cold water several times a day.


Drink plenty of water so you don’t get dehydrated.


It's also a good idea to keep your windows shut if your room is cooler than it is outside.


According to a Department of Health report, climate change means that heatwaves are likely to become more frequent in England.


The worst British heatwave in recent years happened in August 2003 when record-breaking temperatures led to 2,000 excess deaths.


Glossary 词汇表


showed up 露面 


held up 脱不开身 


work commitments 工作承诺 


supporting cast 配角 


hotly-anticipated 急切等待的 


saga 系列故事、传奇 


vampire 吸血鬼 


instalment (系列中的)一辑 


love triangle 三角恋 


emerges 出现 


werewolf 狼人 


split us up 将我们分开


unfortunately 不幸地 


especially 特别是 


at the end of the day 说到底 


dedicated 专注的/忠实的 


nicknamed 绰号为 


pun 押韵 


diehards 顽固分子/铁杆支持者 


snub 怠慢



n.恶性事故( fatality的名词复数 );死亡;致命性;命运
  • Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. 有几个人受伤,但没有人死亡。
  • The accident resulted in fatalities. 那宗意外道致多人死亡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.坚持不懈的,执意的;持续的
  • Albert had a persistent headache that lasted for three days.艾伯特连续头痛了三天。
  • She felt embarrassed by his persistent attentions.他不时地向她大献殷勤,使她很难为情。
n.保留,保持,保持力,记忆力
  • They advocate the retention of our nuclear power plants.他们主张保留我们的核电厂。
  • His retention of energy at this hour is really surprising.人们惊叹他在这个时候还能保持如此旺盛的精力。
学英语单词
air-filled pore
alimentary lipemia
aluminum alkoxide
Amanita pantherina
Amblosin
Aurelian Wall
base transport factor
bit string error
Borgia family
bound theorem
Capsian
chained records
Chilca, Pta.
claim supported by the description
combat plane
covert-way
dating method
de-entrainer
defatted and bleaching facility
diameter of screw
double Compton effect
electric monopole
errible
faired
fellow passenger
fiber-saturation point
flux meter
Friends Service Council
frontier set
grimful
grit stratum
hairpieces
hall mobility
high-resolution image sensor
hipwell
inhomogeneous dispersion
intellectual junkfood
jihadising
laver harvester
local authority escalator loan
logical empiricist
major task segment
melatoninergic
microset presetting machine
millifarads
Nimrod, Mt.
No. of plates
nontariff protectionism
nurse cells
Open Office
Ordzhonikidzeabad
ouananiche
outfield player
panoptic, panoptical
passenger zone
Pedicularis cheilanthifolia
physiopathologic
polyurethane pad blanking
production function constraint
prostate-specific antigen
pteridine
putting two and two together
pyttel
radioluminescence
raising-prescriptions
rebounds
regional mark
remote control master switch
removing toxicity for protecting yin
Resplene
rozins
Saurauia punduana
scientific-technical rationality
serioline
small coal
small intestine obstruction
sociable numbers
soft meson technique
spheroidal galaxy
static capacitance
sulci venae umbilicalis
switchsignal
Szentes
tap-hole bar
There are more ways than to kill a cat.
time deposits
transverse laser mode
trimetazidine
TSS file management
two-dimensional communication
tychopotamic
u-b color index
unlegalized
upward welding
uranochalcite
vocational curriculum
Waterborne Business Law
wet magnetic cobber
Windsor Declaration
Woods Hole
wormald
Zamami-jima