时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:朗文3L看听学英语第四册


英语课

  Lesson 47 Television Day: The sea

TV Commentary 1:

If you looked at the Pacific from a space-capsule you might think that the world was all water. You would hardly be able to see any land at all. Water covers most of the earth's surface.

The sea contains a large number of substances, besides common salt. If you boiled away some sea-water, you would find over forty different materials. For instance 2, out of a cubic mile of water you would get ninety-four tons of silver and three tons of gold! If it were possible to do this, it still wouldn't be worth the trouble. It would cost more to obtain these precious metals than they are worth. But the sea provides us with a great many materials which we can obtain easily and which we use a lot. For instance, we use huge quantities of sand in industry to make glass, detergents 3 and cement 4.

Besides materials like salt and sand, we obtain a great deal of food from the sea. One day we may even have undersea farms. We have hardly begun to explore the sea. In some ways it is less familiar than outer space.



1 commentary
n.评论,评注;实况广播报导,现场口头评述
  • He is giving the commentary on the basketball game.他正在对篮球赛作评论。
  • His running commentary on the football match was excellent.他对这次足球赛所作的实况报道十分精彩。
2 instance
n.例,例证,实例
  • Can you quote me a recent instance?你能给我举一个最近的例子吗?
  • He's a greedy boy,yesterday,for instance,he ate all our biscuits!他是个贪吃的孩子――比如,他昨天把我们的饼干都吃了!
3 detergents
n.洗涤剂( detergent的名词复数 )
  • Such detergents do not yellow the wool as alkali tends to do. 这种洗涤剂不会象碱那样使羊毛发黄。 来自辞典例句
  • Development of detergents has required optimization of the surfactants structure. 发展洗涤剂时,要求使用最恰当的表面活性剂结构。 来自辞典例句
4 cement
n.水泥;胶结材料;vt.粘结;巩固
  • We need 100 tons of cement at most for this project.这项工程满打满算有一百吨水泥就足够了。
  • Let's cement the parts together.咱们来把这些部件粘接在一起吧。
学英语单词
0-ring
achromia parasitica
alamilla
all a-growing and a-blowing
altitude grade gasoline
ambushable
anaesthetic room
apochromatic lens
ardisia brevicaulis
argionite
augitophre
be at someone's door
Bela Vista de Minas
black rots
blodgett
bone meal?
calcimurite
calidities
carboloy dioxide analysis
climatic symbols
Cloonboo
cohesiometer
combination type gear inspection instrument
countryfied
countryhood
currency balance
emitted dose
epidemic focus
ferrocolumbium tantalum
fixed priority
flinger
freight forwarder agency charge
geochemical fossil
Gqudin's equation
graphis afractuosa eschw.
grossnesses
high efficiency area of pump-operation
homemade video clip
i-cube
Intergovernmental loan
internal intercostal membrane
isolating capacitor
itc (international telecommunication convension)
Jirkov
jump to sb's defence
junior party
Klein-Krotzenburg
Kuteynikovskaya
ladle refining
lock in relay
lt-gaas
ma-and-pa, ma and pa
macrolactonization
macroscopy
makl
marginal rate of return
mark-houwink
mastigomyia gratiosa
mechanical management of respiration
microvolt sensitivity
monkey trail
nanoregion
operation check
package software
packing gauge
percentage fee
pi electron
Plica hepatopancreatica
post-qualifications
prediction optimization
Prescriptions for Succouring the Sick
primary processes
propeller revolution counter
pyrobole
rebuffered
rerun clause
scofflaw
Scyphida
seal with arrow-rings
searchlight flat mounting base
self-propelled ditch digger
siderazote
Skippack
sleep-stage
sparkover voltage
splashes down
steady head tank
strategically equivalent utility function
strike a blow for sth
sulfonation
sulphur shower
suppression pool headers
TAG (Technical Advisory Group)
Tekman
three-dimensional table
un-protected
V. I. C.
vised
war dead
water-saving pressure regulator
west east trade
with satisfaction