时间:2018-12-13 作者:英语课 分类:北师大版高中英语模块8(选修)


英语课

[00:02.02]Unit 22 Environmental Protection

[00:06.60]Lesson 3 Unnatural 1 Disasters

[00:10.92]Hell and High Water

[00:13.46]The last few years have been the worst period

[00:16.21]on record for environmental disasters

[00:19.22]and experts are predicting far worse to come.

[00:22.35]Jin Li reports.

[00:24.95]A In the last decade, floods, droughts,

[00:28.71]windstorms, earthquakes, typhoons,

[00:31.69]volcanic eruptions 2 and froese fires

[00:34.35]have become increasingly common.

[00:36.53]There has been disastrous 3 flooding in Asia,

[00:39.73]Africa, America and Oceania.

[00:42.78]Even prospers 4 Europe has sufferd and

[00:45.43]and large areas from the Britain

[00:47.37]to Germany have all been down the water.

[00:49.77]Storms have been getting worse everywhere too,

[00:52.73]with a growing number of hurricanes

[00:54.39]hitting the US,

[00:55.93]the Caribbean and Central America.

[00:58.28]Drought has affected 5 large areas of Africa

[01:01.00]for years and many other zones

[01:03.10]are becoming drier.

[01:04.54]For example, the Yellow River once notorious

[01:07.50]for flooding the Chinese landscape,

[01:09.73]failed to reach the sea at all

[01:11.73]on 226 days, in 1997.

[01:15.24]A number of nations have already been

[01:17.81]in armed conflict over water,

[01:20.74]and drought in the West of the US

[01:23.12]has resulted in enormous forest fires.

[01:25.27]



1 unnatural
adj.不自然的;反常的
  • Did her behaviour seem unnatural in any way?她有任何反常表现吗?
  • She has an unnatural smile on her face.她脸上挂着做作的微笑。
2 eruptions
n.喷发,爆发( eruption的名词复数 )
  • There have been several volcanic eruptions this year. 今年火山爆发了好几次。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Over 200 people have been killed by volcanic eruptions. 火山喷发已导致200多人丧生。 来自辞典例句
3 disastrous
adj.灾难性的,造成灾害的;极坏的,很糟的
  • The heavy rainstorm caused a disastrous flood.暴雨成灾。
  • Her investment had disastrous consequences.She lost everything she owned.她的投资结果很惨,血本无归。
4 prospers
v.成功,兴旺( prosper的第三人称单数 )
  • Whatever prospers my business is welcome. 凡使我生意兴隆者皆竭诚欢迎。 来自辞典例句
  • Whatever prospers my business is good. 任何使我生意兴隆的都是好的。 来自辞典例句
5 affected
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
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