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
Aldurbra
Antarctic meteorite
aspiration probe
assume the pose of
attached papers
Babylonian Exile
beylik
briquetting asphalt
broken-record
cenobiticl
classicises
clydonograph
compressibile support
contravariant analytic vector
conventional barn
conversation monitor system file directory
Coral B.
cross-examine
curd cheese knife
cutesinesses
cyclopentadecanone
DCRT
dehardened
Dichotomanthes tristaniicarpa
double substitution weighing
drawoff pump
drift approximation
ecomil
emotion-focused coping
evaporation load
filament-type cathode
fishing resource
four-post hydraulic press
four-wire switching center
fuundament
Harvard Monthly Index Chart
hot-work steel
hydraulic suction dredge
hydrogen tartrate
irade
jerde
joshing
kampalas
knowledge mapping
lacrimal points
lean management
Llandrindod Wells
loomery
macrauzata minor
made a nuisance of myself
manganese-zinc pyroxene
Mansfield, Mt.
meacham
method of release control
mode of random variable
monotypic species
multi-microprocessor operating system
mutude
Naira
nhdc
Ouranian
overlapping skin grafting
papyrologic
parahydroxyacet-ophenone
phytopathogen
pityriasis rotunda
pleurobranchia
pml-n
pneumonomycosis
potamodromous migration
preapprehensions
price-reporting
process pipe
product cost accounting
pteriid
quelbe
ramlines
record of flight
reduction to standard conditions
redundant scram
replenishment of funds
retransfer ink
rotation of pasture
seamless copper pipe
secretor character/status
something wrong with
Sphaeranthus
straight bevel gear milling machine
tape dispenser
thomas robert malthuss
Torhout
trigonometric equation
Tubbs
two-dimensional laser scanning system
Villalcampo, Embalse de
viola tricolors
wart of potatoes
weight saving
windlasses
worm oneself into
zero one integer programming
zero-load