时间:2019-03-01 作者:英语课 分类:听播客学英语


英语课

   When we have several days of very hot weather, we call it a heatwave.In Britain, we are having a heatwave at present. In fact, we are having record high temperatures. Yesterday, 19 July, was the hottest July day on record. The highest temperature (36.3 degrees C) was measured at a place called Charlwood which is near London Gatwick Airport.


  Throughout the country, people have crowded into swimming pools or into the sea to keep cool. Respectable businessmen and civil servants have gone to work wearing shorts. In some places the tar 1 on the roads has melted. And here in Birmingham, the heat has buckled 2 railway lines just outside our main railway station, which has caused chaos 3.
  Owners of ice cream vans have done a roaring trade. There was a different sort of roaring trade at Colchester Zoo. There, the keepers gave the lions blocks of ice flavoured with blood (ugh!) to keep them cool. (Look up “roaring trade” and “to roar” in a dictionary!)
  Here are some of the words we might use to describe very hot weather: – hot – scorching 4blistering 5 – sweltering – baking – a heatwave – like an oven, like a furnace.
  And if the weather is moist as well as hot, we can say – sultry – sticky – humid.
  Do you know the expression “most like” and its opposite “least like”? Where would I most like to be in this hot weather? In my own private swimming pool, perhaps, with someone to bring me cold beers from time to time. And where would I least like to be? Easy – in a queue at Gatwick Airport.

n.柏油,焦油;vt.涂或浇柏油/焦油于
  • The roof was covered with tar.屋顶涂抹了一层沥青。
  • We use tar to make roads.我们用沥青铺路。
a. 有带扣的
  • She buckled her belt. 她扣上了腰带。
  • The accident buckled the wheel of my bicycle. 我自行车的轮子在事故中弄弯了。
n.混乱,无秩序
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
adj. 灼热的
  • a scorching, pitiless sun 灼热的骄阳
  • a scorching critique of the government's economic policy 对政府经济政策的严厉批评
adj.酷热的;猛烈的;使起疱的;可恶的v.起水疱;起气泡;使受暴晒n.[涂料] 起泡
  • The runners set off at a blistering pace. 赛跑运动员如脱缰野马般起跑了。
  • This failure is known as preferential wetting and is responsible for blistering. 这种故障称为优先吸湿,是产生气泡的原因。 来自辞典例句
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ac charger/adaptor
access patch
Aconitum refractum
Aluminé, R.
analytical review procedures
antiquinot
apoanalcite
arrival track
augustines of hippo
bargain-basement
barrier resin
beglisten
Bimini Islands
blast-furnace hot blast stove
bonded block
brand unit
Brassica nigra Koch
broken tape detection
brown-butter
BWD
carbonadoed
castism
CD/M2
cephacetrile
chondroblastomata
concurrent transition
cowd
cross-modules
dambre
data subsystem
dejunk
desmoid tumor
djaul (dyaul i.)
elementaristic
ex gratia payment
fessoun
flirtatiously
flood protection measure
friction force of secondary seal
FTNSD
furiotile lake
gas-evolving liquid
genus Phyllostomus
geocentic theory
getting the message
gleanest
goods which sell well
homoform
hyoscytamine
IGG2
inchage
installation index
instaurated
It's an a dirty bird that fouls its own nest.
juvenile courts
lastminutitis
LC connector
logon (log on,log-on)
lower category temperature
Luganchik
majimboism
manufacturing lead time
marketing variance
median size
metallographic equipment
modal window
moisture permeability
muriform bodies
oliva sidelia
Panoram D13
paralyzing vertigo
permanent magnet motor
plant (growth) hormone
pluck up one's courage
prahalad
puerco
pyrolysis temperature
quad sense amplifier
ramming
rear propeller shaft
refraction displacement
ring design method
ropalidia taiwana
sample inlet system
scheeler
schengen convention
single-bladed bit
slip-slap
spiral-bevel gear
standing-eyes closed test
startle effect
summitless
swelting
tapers
tax-inclusive
tennis-balls
top picking of tunnel
turbine locomotive
unlettable
valve lifter
war-on-terror
zorros