时间:2019-02-24 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂


英语课
Todd: So, hey, Rebecca, speaking of environmental stuff 1, I was reading about a drought 2 in Australia. You guys have a serious drought problem with water?
Rebecca: Yeah, we do. We've had a drought for some time now and it seems to be getting worse and worse each year. At the moment, it depends on the area that you're in, but some areas are quite hard-hitted. We actually have restrictions 3 on water now so you can't wash your car unless it's with a bucket of water. You can't water your garden at all, so my mom loves gardening, so to keep her garden, dad actually has fitted a special tube into the washing machine which filters 4 the water out out into a bucket outside and she can use that grey water to water all her plants and that way she can keep her garden all nice.
 
Todd: That's fantastic. You call it grey water?
 
Rebecca: Mm. We call it grey water.
 
Todd: Is it only water from the washing machine?
 
Rebecca: Yeah, it is. We haven't done anything else with the shower water or anything, yet, and I think with the soaps that we use, they're more... not as hard on the plants, so they're actually growing really well.
 
Todd: Oh, really. Actually, the garden is doing better with the grey water than normal water?
 
Rebecca: Yeah. Especially grass. Yeah, I don't know, maybe something in the water that they really love.
 
Todd: Right. All those dirt nutrients 5 from the clothes.
 
Rebecca: From the clothes, yes.
 
Todd: So, has the government done anything like to raise water prices or limit how much water you can use per month or anything like that?
 
Rebecca: There's a certain limit on water and then after that limit's reached, you actually pay quite a fair bit for water. Bottles of water have gone up to about three to four dollars for just a hundred-fifty mil-bottles, so it's quite expensive. Yeah, so water prices are quite high now.
 
Todd: So, basically 6, everybody in Australia just has to hope that in the future there'll be more rain?
 
Rebecca: Yeah. Yeah. Definitely 7. I think the problem is that with the rains, it needs to rain into the basins where we catch the water so, if it doesn't rain into them, then the water's just useless to us when it rains. It just runs offbecause the ground's so dry.
 
Todd: Right, you just have the run-off.
 
Rebecca: Yeah.
 
Todd: So, have you had other things like flooding or anything like that because of the drought?
 
Rebecca: In certain areas when there's been big rainfalls, there has been a lot of flooding because the ground just doesn't soak 8 it up. It's that dry, but other areas have got water so because Australia is so vast, so wide as well, yeah, there's different areas that are hit differently.
 
Todd: Ah, that's terrible. Well, I hope it gets better.
 
Rebecca: Yeah, so do I.
 

n.原料,材料,东西;vt.填满;吃饱
  • We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
  • He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。
n.旱灾,干旱,久旱
  • The plants are growing in again,despite the drought.尽管干旱,植物又长出来了。
  • The ground is as hard as stone after the drought.长期干旱后土地硬得就像石头一样。
约束( restriction的名词复数 ); 管制; 制约因素; 带限制性的条件(或规则)
  • I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
  • a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制
过滤( filter的名词复数 ); 滤光器; (香烟头上的)过滤嘴; 交通红灯指示不得直行的同时
  • Filters do not remove all contaminants from water. 过滤器无法过滤掉水中的所有污染物。
  • A liquid filters through a strainer,into the receptacle beneath. 液体经过过滤器流入下面的容器。
n.(食品或化学品)营养物,营养品( nutrient的名词复数 )
  • a lack of essential nutrients 基本营养的缺乏
  • Nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream. 营养素被吸收进血液。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adv.基本上,从根本上说
  • His heart is basically sound.他的心脏基本上健康。
  • Basically I agree with your plan.我基本上同意你的计划。
adv.一定地,肯定地;明确地,确切地
  • The team will definitely lose if he doesn't play.如果他不参加比赛,这个队肯定会输。
  • I shall definitely be home before six o'clock.6点以前,我一定回家。
n.浸,湿透,喝醉;vt.使…湿透,浸泡在液体中,浸洗,吸入,使某人喝醉,向某人敲竹杠;vi.浸入液体,渗透,感化(某人),无节制地喝酒
  • Let the clothes soak for a few hours in soapy water.让衣服在肥皂水中泡几小时。
  • The oil will soak into the wood.油会渗进木头里。
学英语单词
absorber coupling
actuator
ADC, A/D converter
additional post
aladan
amphoric resonance
Anemone demissa
aplosyenite
audience rating
biomass liquefaction
blunt nosed body
brachionus forficula
color television
craythorne
crucible steel moldboard
cyclone separation
damaged Thoroughfare and Conception Vessels
data construction
degw
dinoseb
ecosystem type
fascisti
finished product
fixed order quantity
Franklin Institute
frowsiest
gamiest
go into liquidation
half solid floor
heating resistance
height of high tide
hexacontane
hexahydro-salicylic acid
hornotine
hot-driven rivet
houda
interrogative sentences
Introdouche
lapilli mound
library-user
lobular glomerulonephritis
long list
manganese trichloride
marbofloxacin
maritane
methylcholanthrenes
net of canals and ditches
new political economy of development
nitrification inhibitor
patrollers
Peltovuoma
peve
pipiles
plasma oscillation analysis
pressure and vacuum release valve
pyrotechnian
radical operation
record of cash disbursement
renner
right circular cylinder coordinate
rough board
Rowell.
safety communications equipment
self-consciously
Senekjie's medium
serenader
shoot craps
sideways extrusion
sing the praises of sb
single-length normalization
sinoradimella costata
snail-shell
Solvay, Ernest
spadger
spatial noise
strata mucosum membranae tympani
t head bolt
tax on slaughtering animals
Tazlina Glacier
tenomyoplasty
third-degree relatives
thymus glands
trimoxamine
turuq
uncurably
under no obligation
univorous
unmanned rocket
unsuit
upper Ordovician series
urts
UTRR (University of Teheran Research Reactor)
vajazzles
vibration and shock
view-finder
viewing prism
vincis
wee-weed
well-penned
xerosis of conjunctiva
zanthoxyli pericarpium