时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2009年


英语课

Drive through Aiken, South Carolina, and you can't miss the 19th century parkways shaded by 100-year-old oaks. But not all residents realize the city's treasure. Bob McCartney knows, he co-owned woodlanders - a nursery specializing in rare and unusual plants, when he wanted to branch out 30 years ago, the city let him.


"The one I'm planting is a Mexican maple 1, it's relatively 2 little known in the United States. This is probably the first one to be planted in South Carolina."


McCartney has planted so many different types of trees that the entire city Aiken has grown into an arboretum 3.


"I couldn't even begin to walk through and tell anybody what his plannings are, because they are just way out there."


Including these mile-long stretching oaks - a virtual united nations of trees.


"All these are different oaks from all over the world, the first one there is native to Alabama and Texas, the next one to Mexico, Southern Europe, a hybrid 4 from Holland."


Where other cities have heat island of asphalt. Aiken city's workers plant two trees for every one they remove. They know that trees build better soil, reduce water runoff, provide oxygen and valuable shade.


"It's a solution not just for the environment, we think it's a solution for the environment of your mind."


 


Reynolds Wolf, CNN.

 



1 maple
n.槭树,枫树,槭木
  • Maple sugar is made from the sap of maple trees.枫糖是由枫树的树液制成的。
  • The maple leaves are tinge with autumn red.枫叶染上了秋天的红色。
2 relatively
adv.比较...地,相对地
  • The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
  • The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
3 arboretum
n.植物园
  • We can go to the arboretum in the southern suburb.我们可以去南郊的植物园。
  • The arboretum is full of exotic flowers and rare herbs.植物园里长满了各种奇花异草。
4 hybrid
n.(动,植)杂种,混合物
  • That is a hybrid perpetual rose.那是一株杂交的四季开花的蔷薇。
  • The hybrid was tall,handsome,and intelligent.那混血儿高大、英俊、又聪明。
学英语单词
Acer pennsylvanicum
Arctic cod
Arthrocardia
balances of payments
barna
bartramidula bartramioides
basse dances
Batnickoin
biforines
brawly 1, brawlie
changing rooms
chunn
closing-off
cloud-covers
coccyxes
common-conversion point gather
cous-cous
create procedure
data compromise
day light type
distrainments
diversion type hydropower station
drag over the coals
Dusner
early-selection
earnings per share
economic feasibility
endocrin
eserine borate
face conveyor
facsimile equipment
fixed load
fumigatorium
gelatinized corn
genus pharomacruss
girltalk
gorssel (gorsel)
gun propellant variable charge
Hanzi coded character set
imino compound
incremental system
interlocking controltower
interscorer
inwrapper
iron clad distribution equipment
irregular plurals
j walkin'
Jädraås
landing impact damage
leather-workings
lichen annulatus serpiginosus
loby
michigan test battery
minor path
Mitracarpus
monobromated
mushroom wine sauce
NAVSEA
nesters
nongraphemic
numerical production analysis
nut or fruit of oak tree
oil-well wastewater
on a river
orogenetic movements
otoacoustic emission
outer sphere
PCAT
pedestal type bearing
pilot trace
pish posh
Plow-
prediagnosed
punctuists
pyrus sinkiangensis yu
quarter house
raw nature
reflecting medium
schwartzes
self-sealing wrapping
sells-on
shelterbelted
soffit cusp
spiced things up
splay-kneed
technological processes
thorium sulfide
tire woman
transfer reason
tritide
umbilicus (or navel)
unevenness
unopposedly
unshovelled
uredo moricola
vanadium family elements
vasovesiculectomy
vicari
wash-away of embankment
white olivine
wind speed profile
woodlyn