时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇


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[00:00.00]One of the typical uses

[00:01.96]of the duct tape is to

[00:03.60]repair a leak in

[00:04.69]a faucet 1 or water tap.

[00:06.55]If the hose of a vacuum

[00:09.07]cleaner has a hole in it,

[00:10.92]The duct tape will

[00:12.13]come to rescue.Almost

[00:13.88]every household in North America

[00:16.73]has at least one roll

[00:18.37]of duct tape. People keep it 

[00:20.99]handy and use it to

[00:22.52]repair almost everything.

[00:23.84]No one would think it

[00:26.25]necessary to justify 2 the purchase

[00:28.00]of extra rolls of tape,

[00:30.18]so the sales continue to increase.

[00:33.87]Many people like to

[00:36.50]boast about how often

[00:37.92]they use the tape.

[00:39.56]They say that the usage

[00:41.31]of duct tape has allowed them

[00:43.06]to simplify their life

[00:44.37]and to decrease the cost of repairs.

[00:47.33]It can be used  indoors

[00:49.74]in the interior of a house

[00:52.14]but there are abundant uses

[00:54.28]outside the house as well.

[00:56.36]If there is a chip

[00:58.10]out of a glass object,

[00:59.63]the duct tape can be used

[01:01.82]to protect the user

[01:02.92]from being injured.

[01:05.32]Repairing or reinforcing a joint 3

[01:08.49]on an aluminium 4 ladder

[01:10.47]that a person is using

[01:11.89]would be a valuable

[01:13.20]use of the tape.

[01:14.40]The tape has proved

[01:16.70]to be a bargain.

[01:18.45]Even if the manufacturers

[01:20.20]charged twice as much

[01:21.74]for the tape, it would still

[01:23.59]be a best seller

[01:25.34]in the western world.

[01:26.66]The retail 5 price is very reasonable.

[01:29.94]In addition it is convenient

[01:32.24]to store, and despite the number

[01:34.43]of apparent uses, people

[01:36.28]are always finding more ways

[01:38.04]to utilize 6 it. It has

[01:39.90]become a vital item

[01:41.86]for every household.

[01:43.72]The glue on the tape

[01:46.02]is a wonderful adhesive 7 agent

[01:47.88]and will bond well to

[01:49.74]anything from a piece of crystal

[01:51.82]to the handle of a broom.

[01:53.79]There have been reports

[01:56.09]of people using the tape

[01:57.73]to trap insects. Crickets,

[01:59.91]for example, were found stuck

[02:02.43]to the tape by one person.

[02:04.30]Maybe the glue was able

[02:07.03]to attract them or maybe they

[02:08.78]just were in the wrong place.

[02:10.97]Criminals have been known

[02:13.38]to use the tape on their victims.

[02:15.45]During a robbery, a robber

[02:17.64]used the duct tape

[02:19.17]on the witnesses to keep

[02:20.70]them from reporting the crime

[02:22.56]until he had escaped.

[02:24.31]It was apparent that

[02:26.18]the robber came armed

[02:27.60]with the duct tape,

[02:29.13]anticipating the need for its use



1 faucet
n.水龙头
  • The faucet has developed a drip.那个水龙头已经开始滴水了。
  • She turned off the faucet and dried her hands.她关掉水龙头,把手擦干。
2 justify
vt.证明…正当(或有理),为…辩护
  • He tried to justify his absence with lame excuses.他想用站不住脚的借口为自己的缺席辩解。
  • Can you justify your rude behavior to me?你能向我证明你的粗野行为是有道理的吗?
3 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
4 aluminium
n.铝 (=aluminum)
  • Aluminium looks heavy but actually it is very light.铝看起来很重,实际上却很轻。
  • If necessary, we can use aluminium instead of steel.如果必要,我们可用铝代钢。
5 retail
v./n.零售;adv.以零售价格
  • In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
  • These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
6 utilize
vt.使用,利用
  • The cook will utilize the leftover ham bone to make soup.厨师要用吃剩的猪腿骨做汤。
  • You must utilize all available resources.你必须利用一切可以得到的资源。
7 adhesive
n.粘合剂;adj.可粘着的,粘性的
  • You'll need a strong adhesive to mend that chair. 你需要一种粘性很强的东西来修理那把椅子。
  • Would you give me an adhesive stamp?请给我一枚带胶邮票好吗?
学英语单词
ABUI
airline alliance
annular membrane
antifungal
antinuclear antibodies
assaultees
attack-time delay
awasthi
balloon dilatation
barmitzvahs
best-connected
binary tree architecture
boron-lined
buoying
bursars
calappa capellonis
caremost
centre-fold
chabris
closure of freezing wall
colpostegnosis
continuously differentiable for n-times
corosal
create envelope
critical section routine
dang
dinghies
divergence of a vector
does to
doggy-fashion
edward osborne wilsons
electroluminescence junction
elevation of levelled ground
eoraptor
ethnophilosophies
excised
finnidas
fishing rod
fullery
genus Dicrostonyx
gotten ahead
grillage column base
high-voltage capacitor ceramic
Hypericum maculatum
incision of transverse septum of vagina
jailyard
Kaes-Bechterew layer
keratophyre spilite
Kumba virus
laist
Lakadiya
landslide victories
lithozonation
lumbar segments
megadealership
mid-height
military transport ship
multihop propagation
N-Benzyloxycarbonyl-s-benzyl-L-cysteine
naval arsenal
non-thermal oxygen atoms
non-transferred arc plasma torch
nonslip terrazzo
nylon staple
one touch operation
Pellionia minima
percussion piston
period of reservior with full water
Photoncy
polynomial spline lag
praisingly
prebends
proprietarious
Pseudobythinella
pyrocarbonic acid diethyl ester
rectal wound
rod bearing seal
ruadh
sand bank
selective optical lock-on
Shelford's law of tolerance
SNIA
soil water specific yield
source register field
sperical variance function
spirillaceaes
star transmission network
subtleship
successive sedimentation
swarovski-crystal
tangential-feed
thin stocked land
thirst-provoking diet
three-step design
TNV
to copy
total retrusion
triscyclopentadienyl neptunium fluoride
tube bending machines
unbesmirchable
unexpectantly
vapour tension