英语听力文摘 English Digest 170、永别了，芝加哥
时间：2019-02-24 作者：英语课 分类：英语听力文摘 English Digest
Although it is devastating 1 to find out that Chicago is sinking, we’re only talking one millimeter a year. That’s four inches in a century, but only until the land in North America brings itself back into equilibrium 2.
When glaciers 3 covered Canada and the northern Great Lakes tens of thousands of years ago, their weight pushed down on the Earth’s surface and caused it to sag 4. And this pressure forced the Earth’s mantle 5, the layer of hot, plastic rock that’s located beneath the Earth’s crust, to give way and ooze 6 out and sideways. It’s like the Earth is a giant waterbed. When you lie down on it, the surface of the mattress 7 under you sinks, forcing the water into other parts of the mattress.
In the twelve thousand years since the glaciers receded 8, the Earth’s crust has been slowly returning to its original shape. So the land in Canada and the northern Great Lakes is slowly rising, while the rest of North America is slowly sinking, like a seesaw 9, enabling the mantle to flow back north. And as the Lake Michigan floor north of Green Bay rises, all that water sloshes south towards Chicago.
- It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
- Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
- Change in the world around us disturbs our inner equilibrium.我们周围世界的变化扰乱了我们内心的平静。
- This is best expressed in the form of an equilibrium constant.这最好用平衡常数的形式来表示。
- Glaciers gouged out valleys from the hills. 冰川把丘陵地带冲出一条条山谷。
- It has ice and snow glaciers, rainforests and beautiful mountains. 既有冰川，又有雨林和秀丽的山峰。 来自英语晨读30分（高一）
- The shelf was beginning to sag beneath the weight of the books upon it.书架在书的重压下渐渐下弯。
- We need to do something about the sag.我们须把下沉的地方修整一下。
- The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green.大地披上了苍翠欲滴的绿色斗篷。
- The mountain was covered with a mantle of snow.山上覆盖着一层雪。
- Soon layer of oceanic ooze began to accumulate above the old hard layer.不久后海洋软泥层开始在老的硬地层上堆积。
- Drip or ooze systems are common for pot watering.滴灌和渗灌系统一般也用于盆栽灌水。
- The straw mattress needs to be aired.草垫子该晾一晾了。
- The new mattress I bought sags in the middle.我买的新床垫中间陷了下去。
- The floodwaters have now receded. 洪水现已消退。
- The sound of the truck receded into the distance. 卡车的声音渐渐在远处消失了。