时间:2019-02-22 作者:英语课 分类:留美老师带你每日说英文


英语课

   More imminent 1 is an asteroid 2 large enough to create a global catastrophe 3 which is estimated to occur every 120,000 years.


  较迫切的危机是:有个小行星的体积大到能够引起全球性的大灾难,而这种灾难预计每12万年就会发生一次。
  小行星引起的大灾难
  学习重点:
  1.imminent 逼近的、即将发生的
  imminent (adj.) 逼近的、即将发生的
  eminent 4 (adj.) 出众的、卓越的
  prominent (adj.) 突出的、显著的
  2.catastrophe 大灾难
  catastrophe (n.) 大灾难
  catastrophic (adj.) 灾难的、悲惨的
  disaster (n.) 灾难
  calamity 5 (n.) 灾难、祸害
  3.estimate 估计、估量、评估
  estimate (v.) 估计、估量、评估
  estimation (n.) 预测、估计
  evaluate (v.) 对...评判
  4.occur 发生
  occur (v.) 发生
  occurrence (n.) 发生、事件、出现

adj.即将发生的,临近的,逼近的
  • The black clounds show that a storm is imminent.乌云预示暴风雨即将来临。
  • The country is in imminent danger.国难当头。
n.小行星;海盘车(动物)
  • Astronomers have yet to witness an asteroid impact with another planet.天文学家还没有目击过小行星撞击其它行星。
  • It's very unlikely that an asteroid will crash into Earth but the danger exists.小行星撞地球的可能性很小,但这样的危险还是存在的。
n.大灾难,大祸
  • I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。
  • This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。
adj.显赫的,杰出的,有名的,优良的
  • We are expecting the arrival of an eminent scientist.我们正期待一位著名科学家的来访。
  • He is an eminent citizen of China.他是一个杰出的中国公民。
n.灾害,祸患,不幸事件
  • Even a greater natural calamity cannot daunt us. 再大的自然灾害也压不垮我们。
  • The attack on Pearl Harbor was a crushing calamity.偷袭珍珠港(对美军来说)是一场毁灭性的灾难。
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5,6-benzoquinoline
a man
a slow coach
A.con
access method control block
adjacency-matrix representation
advanced antenna system
al-jabr
albomaculatus
anti-clash key
artificial sweeters
biodegrading
boold
BSSE
Cauchy relations
cdkn
clothespinning
clutch bearing
drive out the game
elaborated sap
embrand
emfinger
employment expense
engraver
Entusul
extended affix grammar
Fabry-Perot fringes
fetal adenoma of thyroid
figure-heads
flagitiousness
Gennerich's treatment
give someone rope enough to hang himself
Glucoperiplocymarin
gridiron network
grouping contactor
have a breeze in one's breech
hedgecutters
illite
in the inmost recesses of
infinitesimal balance equation
inflatable life-raft
inotropic action
interlayer effect
junk-shops
landing wheel
laser acupuncture set
laser-plasma accelerator
lifull
lofting procedure
macrophytic
me tooed
moide
Montlieu-la-Garde
neanthes virens
negligence
neutron rate
o rings
off-premise standby equipment
one-members
option-oriented
partial seizure
pattern matching function
philonotis turneriana (schwaegr) mitt.
Pierce-type extractor
poilaniella
pseudocercospora chrysanthemicola
purple stone
pushmi-pullyu
put on the game face
quadratic discriminator
recoil atoms
relief teacher
resina guaiacum
rotulas
screwsocket
sepedon ferruginosa
set in order
silklikest
slicking
snow-patch erosion
social stratification
source-drain characteristics
sprenkle
stator frame
Stauntonia elliptica
stonecipher
straight cylindrical duct
subtypes
sudating
sulphonitrocarburizing salt
surplus materials division
syngenesia
take priority of
thymus vulgariss
transport module
unfavoured transition
unidirectional link routing
violet-pink
warts and everything all
wax mould casting
working fit
xena