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
a train of events
advance irrigation
alcoholic paralysis
anatomical reference
annexations
antecedent moisture
anti-noises
articulated vehicle
Atlantist
bacteriopbobia
benjamin franklin butler
bipolar HVDC control system
bleise
boehlert
canalettos
cdma2000 1x EV DV
cheque card
cloud top indicator
curry plant
darling nellie gray
displacers
eight-bars
engine-driven supercharged diesel engine
Errindlev
ethyl phenylephrine
Factoryville
false neutron
fin-stabilized ke ammunition
forefeelings
frackiewicz
genericise
gizzit
golfotron
guide price
h.p.casing (high-pressure casing)
halimeda incrassata
hardware process control block
heating current intensity
Hegira calendar
high-definition televisions
high-octane motor fuel
high-spots
hold one's fire
hole-pressure error effect
ichthyostegids
in process control
inner set
integrated multiplexer channel
invasion depth
isocortices
jointbar
jonidan
kinematic design of mechanism
kitchen appliance
kretsinger
lackalnd
little egret
loose goods
lysylendopeptidase
malariologies
malformation by defect
master-work
mavacurine
meal time
median-plane location
modal bandwidth
moorwort
neocuproin(2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)
nept
nonspiking
pilotage inward
piston type paint sprayer
porous pot
quarter hour
radiolocation
rareresolution
reisses
remingtonocetus
resolution of identity
sand eliminator
sedimentum
semi-conducting glass
severe-service
shrinkage hole
side car leaf spring
Smilax astrosperma
stack option
static linking
store calf
subjective sign
summer sweet
symmetric treatment
syngenetic SRCA
syntonic jars
topropes
vacuum pug mill
washing erosion
welder's
Welland Ship Canal
wideband transmitter
wink at sth
zero force connector