时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:听美文故事记6级单词


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6. Time Runs out for World Records


World records in many athletic 1 events are peaking - and will not be broken unless athletes take drugs, say researchers.


  The study, "Are there limits to running world records?", suggests faster times may prove elusive 2.


  The current women''s 1500m record may never be broken, said Professor Alan Nevill, without fundamental changes to the genetic 3 structure of human beings.


  Prof Nevill says many running records are "already nearing their limits".


  The paper, co-written by Professor Nevill at the University of Wolverhampton and Professor Greg Whyte from the English Institute of Sports, challenges previous scientific research that there was no limit to human performance and that women would eventually run as fast as men.


  Professors Nevill and Whyte re-interpreted data of previous performances and concluded that records set to plateau (停滞期).


  "For the first time we have identified that there could be a limit to performance and that world records will not continue to rise," said Professor Nevill of the University of Wolverhampton.


  "Many of the established men and women''s middle and long distance running records are already nearing their limits.


  "The results, of course, assume that athletes in the future do not benefit from scientific engineering or drug use."


  Professor Nevill told the BBC he did not envisage 4 the current women''s record for the 1500m - held by Qu Yunxia of China - ever being broken.


  This was one of the races won by Kelly Holmes at last year''s Athens Olympics in a time of 3:57.90, well below Qu Yunxia''s 3:50.46 set in Beijing in 1993.


  But Professor Nevill stressed that the public would never lose interest in athletics 5, even if new records were no longer set.



1 athletic
adj.擅长运动的,强健的;活跃的,体格健壮的
  • This area has been marked off for athletic practice.这块地方被划出来供体育训练之用。
  • He is an athletic star.他是一个运动明星。
2 elusive
adj.难以表达(捉摸)的;令人困惑的;逃避的
  • Try to catch the elusive charm of the original in translation.翻译时设法把握住原文中难以捉摸的风韵。
  • Interpol have searched all the corners of the earth for the elusive hijackers.国际刑警组织已在世界各地搜查在逃的飞机劫持者。
3 genetic
adj.遗传的,遗传学的
  • It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
  • Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。
4 envisage
v.想象,设想,展望,正视
  • Nobody can envisage the consequences of total nuclear war.没有人能够想像全面核战争的后果。
  • When do you envisage being able to pay me back?你看你什么时候能还我钱?
5 athletics
n.运动,体育,田径运动
  • When I was at school I was always hopeless at athletics.我上学的时候体育十分糟糕。
  • Our team tied with theirs in athletics.在田径比赛中,我们队与他们队旗鼓相当。
学英语单词
Achaea
adolescent stream
afrts
allotiophagy
antivertigo agents
apposing
ask modulation/demodulation
atectonic plunton
atmospheric transmission
avenyl
barakat
behavioral thermoregulation
black house
boiling-out
bovespa
certoparin
coarse-fine relay
common gender
computational theory of mind
confusion reflectors
Corliss valve gear
cowsill
cup with high handle
curved buttress dam
cynanchum japonicum morr. et decne.
differential feedback method
differential of area
electroviscosimeter
emanative
equivocado
European car
exchange conversion rate
fish shoaling curve
foot lining
functional responsibility
glycometabolic
Glycyl-L-proline
hylocichlas
hypobaric hypoxia examination
hypobranchialis media arteria
ideal gas constant
inclined wind-drift
knock testing
l-optimal design
LAN emulation
landscape architectures
love-it-or-hate-it
magnetic tape velocity
manometric bomb
mixed congestion
Nicrosilal
optics of metal
organic petrography
ornithorhynchous
oscillation tube
ouercuring
oversharpens
partie
philosophizers
plate-fin cooler
point of attachment
pole spar
process alloy
quarter-tones
Quoc Thai
radio burst
reaction of the second order
recognizableness
resediment
retinal persistance
reverseimpulse
rhinestones
rinmanite
rotomolding
safe operation
safety extra-low voltage
Sangjong
Sania Ramel Airport
Schridde's granules
second level address
second space
see-through clarity
segmental tile
shankill
short-term scheduling
sideseams
sod cutter
spin projection operator
superfans
synthetized
test-tube support
Towot
triac
trislander
twin engine
ultra-lightweight
unnilennium
utility of money
vagotomized
vomits
wouldn't touch sth with a barge pole
Zeeman coherence