时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2013年(二)月


英语课

 Hi, I'm Carl Azuz, you know we think Fridays are awesome 1, but for the 4229 people aboard the "Carnival 2 Triumph" cruise ship. This Friday, probably seems especially awesome cause hopefully by now they are all off that ship. On Sunday, the ship lost power in the Gulf 3 of Mexico after a fire in the engine room. Tugboats eventually came out to help pull the Trumiph in the port in Mobile, Alabama. But that's been very very slow,and when the passengers finally get off the ship, their nightmare may not be over. One doctor said conditions on board after the fire made the ship a floating petri dish, if that sounds kind of gross, that's his point.


No power means the toilets stop working. Raw sewage can be a major health risk, and we've heard of reports about sloshing across the floors and running down the walls. No power means food starts rotting, spoiled food can lead to E.coli or Salmonella, there haven't been any reports of any kind of outbreak on the ship, but the doctor says a full-blown infection might not show up for a couple of weeks.
So would you consider cruising again after going through something like this? On our facebook page, Mason said, "Sure, that was just one very unlucky cruise." Joseph and Unique both said, "No way." Reese would consider taking another cruise, but not for a very long time." And Kora's opinion, "If it happens again, it would definitely be something to tell your grandkids."
Remember a week or so ago when we talked about an asteroid 4 that would fly by the earth, today is the day, scientists are sure it won't hit anything down here. But what about up there?
"This is 70,000 miles away, now if you're watching a dish or Direct TV, your satellite is 22,000 miles away, so yes there are some earth satellites here around the ring. The Moon is far away, the Moon is ten times farther away than what this thing is going to fly through our geosynchronous earth orbit. So, is there a chance of it hitting something? Yes."
A chance, sure, but it's not too likely, one analyst 5 said, other objects pass through the same area every day, they don't cause any problems. This asteroid is a lot bigger than those, but that also means it's easier to keep track of, so scientists have a better idea of what it will or more likely will not hit.

1 awesome
adj.令人惊叹的,难得吓人的,很好的
  • The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
  • That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.
2 carnival
n.嘉年华会,狂欢,狂欢节,巡回表演
  • I got some good shots of the carnival.我有几个狂欢节的精彩镜头。
  • Our street puts on a carnival every year.我们街的居民每年举行一次嘉年华会。
3 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
4 asteroid
n.小行星;海盘车(动物)
  • Astronomers have yet to witness an asteroid impact with another planet.天文学家还没有目击过小行星撞击其它行星。
  • It's very unlikely that an asteroid will crash into Earth but the danger exists.小行星撞地球的可能性很小,但这样的危险还是存在的。
5 analyst
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
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abrasive grain holding force
acaults
agrimonia proceras
bad breaking
Ban Phu
batch filter
belke
Bereeda
birchen
branch off
brilliant image
cinch belt
citras
collegiant
controlled condition
cusser
cypraea ventriculus
DC feedback circuit
declare against
distribution quasi-uniform
ellipsoidal drift tube
embodiment of technological change
engross in
equivalent radar area
error in rounding number
Ficus pubinervis
gain on exchange
genus Gallinago
geometrised
giving the shaft
golden trumpets
gross weight filling machine
haemulon parras
hanger crack
head sampling
Hildegard of Bingen
hitchin'
hydrosilicon
ichthammol
Ikhrek
in-land fabric
isostatic curve
KEK synchrotron
kestenbaum
launch operations control center
leftback
long-term departure
lonrhoes
magma heat source
Mangandu
medium-specific
mellett
metallacycle
mine explosive charge
mohabbazeen (egypt)
murrina
neurocom
non convex programming
on a scale of
oxoacids
plowed soils
plumboferrite
pocari
polar coordinate-paper
polioencephalitis acuta
porpore
power plant discharge
precoracoidal process
prodegeeria javana
prokaryotic cell
propagating zero-sided Lindenmayer system
propellerstirrer
quasi-independent
Rakaca
ranforced
rate of radioactive decay
scour lag
seam
selagoes
sheng nu
sodium barbital
spitroasts
stannylene
static load fatigue test
stator end
strigulated
stroller
stuff cusp configuration
subaqueous sound ranging
sulfide dye
swap fund
temporary needs
tertiary arsine oxide
unbearably
unnecessariness
untowardness
vartiainen
versaci
virgin coal
waste heating
water compressibility
xenomyza vitripennis