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
abrasive wear machine
accusing
acer
acid-neutralizing property
acoustic(al) hologram
adjustable error
AFNORTH
all geared lathe
altimetric frequency curve
Antibody-Type
axiom of selection
beam coupling factor
briefings
brown recluse (spider)
capital intensive enterprise
carny
chain of industry
change of host
channeled upland
chondrule
combined thermal efficiency
compilation units
congruent melting point
copying boring bar
corticolimbic
cowpaths
cut-bank
dame margot fonteyns
dark brown knot
diamond shaped anastomosis
die sinker
foot up
Globocef
greenwood
have a shy at
health institution
high-rate discharge tester
horizon effect
horizontal vacuum belt filter
image transformation
industrial espionage
information management science
interleaved gear
inverse iteration method
jimmer
keitel
Ksaverivka
life-patterns
lip clap
loss of weight
marine microorganism
marrou
metamorphic phase
moisture pressure curve
multiple carbide alloy
Musculi membri inferioris
myocardial infarcts
Myzus persicae
narrow road
naso reticulatus
national demand and supply
nutshel
object relation theory
odd-numbered line
original file
pad of corpus callosum
persic
perverteth
phosphoribosyly-5-aminoimidazole5-
portensions
postglenoid foramina
process of molting
pyosapremia
pyrobetulin
quality-monitorings
respiration intensity
rough cut
RS-423-A
saluter
sangle
Sargon I
second degree
semi-soft
Silhouette Island
single furnace boiler
somerhalder
soundtracked
South American leishmaniasis
spray of molten steel
talk sb. out of sth.
tau-tau
TBPA
the feeding unit
transportability of sediments
vega risk
vermilion (cinnabar)
vestibule training
wall-hung type
water leakage
wood strand
yuanti
yushania niitakayamensis (hay.)keng f.