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。
学英语单词
arvomycin
beating motion
Beigel's disease
bleareyed
bollock-naked
bottom-tier
Boyksen's test
brake drum glaze
cadell creek
Careproctus
chemistry of petroleum hydrocarbons
Coelestine
concatenates
consistent statistic
crashes out
cross-beddeds
cutchery
decline in judgement
demelo
detrusion
device acknowledge
doctrine of necessity
eight-month
external delay time
fabry-perot
fibergastroscpe
foreign liquid assets
gamma-rays
garden-path
golden tips
head lamp housing
henans
heterophytic
high-positive indicator
Ichikai
illegitinate combination
implement of thinking
improving audit
incentive force
inside caliper gage
iron treatment
ishida
jet granulation
Keppra
knauers
latuscula
leave schedule
lobus inferior
macro-structures
mafic mineral
mask (african styles)
microbrenner
Minin light
mixed valence chemistry
mode transmission
Nalitābāri
non-skill
NOR buffer
oil-soaked
over cooling
overdecoration
piezoelectric coupling
planchonella duclitan
pneumatic compressor
precipitation attenuation
pyrology
ras(oncogene)family
rate of labour input
red-count pipette
reinsurance offers
reparking
Rh factors
Rhododendron alutaceum
robocoaster
Sakaguchi reaction
salt provisions
schwikert
scrapes by
semicryptic
seminude
single arm lever
single-pole double throw
singular inner function
sleazewad
socket-and-spigot joint
soluble poison
sophorae fructus
speed-sensing device
sub-schema
synthetic enamelled copper wire
telescopic gate
toxic erythema neonatorum
Troltsch's folds
two-and-a-half-times
ultimate base level
unrefillable
unstitching
veces
voltage adjuster
wellwillers
winding arrangement
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