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
-enol
amorphized
antenna signal distribution
attendant
barometric millimeter of mercury
beauty-mark
beef chit
bentalls
berendt
bicyclic compound
bracket light
butchers knife
calamus rotangs
cardiac inotropic drug
chloropseudomonas
claims document
clutch carbon
counterware
cumulative marginal tax rate
dealuminating
decision space
defect disposition report or deviation disposition report
desmatodon laureri (schultz.)b.s.g.
disguise in
ditrigonal pyramidal class
dmzn
drift bolt
edward osborne wilsons
elemin
emergency lighting switchboard
enzytol
full-colour image
gemsbucks
gnarred
grain slope
grain washer
hardboards
Hexhamshire
Hollerith field descriptor
hydrogenation sites
imciromab
in reliance on
instrument of torture
kalia
kettal
knickerbocker glory
Lambertian source
laryngotracheobronchopneumonitis
leak-tight
level of performance
lipidase
macrospegatrine
map complexity
matriarchal theory
McKusick-Kaufman syndrome
minoa
multiple free throw
negative sequence loss
No book
normal-states
notatums
oil futures
one-twentieth
organotropically
Petersen's bag
plated mast
pokeberrygenin
Polypodium barometz L.
post-coloniality
post-fertilization
pseudokinetics
radioactive damage
Ramonskiy Rayon
reader-response criticism
rehabilitative care
rice weevils
SECOR
selective drainage method
shield factor
slideableness
spinal lemniscus
spirocyclooctane
step slot
storage pith
sumnien
tetrelide
the shoah
there is something about
timber for implements
time history response analysis
timing nuts
tuck-up
ultra 160m
upper mantles
ushership
Vostochnaya Litsa
wet bulb thermometre
What an idea
wheel web rolling mill
Wister, Owen
Wolferton
Yavay, Poluostrov