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
absolute net loss
account receivable turnover
aculeolata
affectivities
aggregation of marine cargo
air combat mode
alkali solution quenching medium
andalus
antell
antiepileptic drug
as hard as granite
binary tree data structure
blackplate
by exposure to weather
cactus dahlia
calc granite
cast uphill
chloro-formiate
class invariants
craniovertebral
crest of berm
Cyperus niveus
data address memory
deck chair
distributed linear collector system
Dār al'Umayrah
epistemic
excess liquidity
fact of life
fermi plateau
fiber paper
firor
fit-into
flatulate
flutter characteristic
frame grider
gantry crane with self-propelled trolley
geosophical
gravity point of attachment effect
gristleheads
haematoin
half port!
haplo-
Harlington
high-flux
Hilbert network
horizontal plastic injection moulding machine
Hottentot teal
hydrourterosis
hyqnagoguo
i-past
ichthyological geography
incomings and outgoings
Institute of British Foundrymen
kristan
lick and a promise
loss on disposal of investments
madiza lacteipennis
Matrisil
music teacher
net irradiance
noninfectious convulsion
Näsåker
one-generator
orangish
order arms
patrik
periodicity modulus
Pietermaritzburg
program for international student assessment (pisa)
public interest corporation
rechtschaffen
Sedum onychopetalum
segment erection machinery
separation identification system
Sirognathography
skin fragility
solid
spirocid
structured cataloging of file
subtraction phase
sunnywick
timber niggers
time sheet
to appeal
torgoch
transcendental inequality
tug light
turbo-mixer
turtle back deck
unexperient
unfilamentous
unifeed
upset frame
urotropine
us major-league
Websphere MQ
Winifreda
wire-frames
Wookey Hole
yame
zoogamete