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
4-isopropyl-1-methylcyclohexane
a change of front
acquisitor
Actium, Prom.
alkoes
Anson unit
apposite to
array folding adder
barking in strips
begin on
Berlin corridor
BESRL
bidayuh
Birkhoff theorem
brand advertising manager
brush and spray discharge
bullet bait
Buluk
cadima
Clausia
co-axial cable
cooser
craniometaphyseal
dataflow technique
dorsalis tabes
double deck classifier
dworzak
ehrenhalt
emergence
empis ingrata
Eulaelaps
fanlike die block
field interlock switch
flowmeter manometer
fortunesky
frax-
functional diagnosis
glasersfeld
go-nowhere
gynecol.
halfwittery
high-density high-conductivity charge
indefinite quantity
Investment advisory service
jean genets
jhp
jordanovas
kalkyn
khazins
kiles
Klebs-Loeffler bacillus
loading instruments
locomotive speed characteristic
Lolog
lychnis dioicas
magnetic thermal effect
main vein
Mary Little
murreyne
myelinolysis
nose-rode
Nylstroom
OODM
Oshuko
out-township
patent eye
permanent dentition
phosphomimic
pin-prick inoculation
play a match
property basket
purple hearts
quick as a wink
RAM module
random access message storage
record stacking height
restrain yourself
root vector
scarifyings
social contract theory
spot comparism exposure meter
spotteth
streict
strontium thiocarbonate
succin
Suiyuan
surface friction coefficient of driving pulley
systematic(al)
tallyclerk
teaset
third-tier
Thomas Willis
tidal stream atlas
trangias
tropopause oscillation
underlife
unstable operating point
urban western
urbanities
Valley Hd.
VAT (value add tax)
voluntary transfer