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
2-hydroxy-2-methyl-propanenitrile
Abert, Lake
Asian Semi-longhair
aviation physiology
be hard to come by
car repair depot
catch per unit effort
chloranemia
Chromophyta
cimeliarch
common bird cherries
compressible stratum
conjugate nuclear division
control indicator
cove ceiling
crocodile shear
cyclocaine
damage repair
derosene
diagnostics by microwave method
diffusionist
disinterment
distribution of luminous intensity
door-to-door traffic
Ducrey
exhaustive classification
famelessness
folded membrane
fools rush in where angels fear to tread
fripperies
Gemalgene
Ginni
gonostyli
graph of equation
Gutierrezia
habeas corpus writ
hamstered
Headstone City
honey dipper
indentifications
insoluble bromide number
journal box bolt tie bar
jump off
kendoes
krou
light-dark ratio
like nothing on earth
long heavy grade
mainswear
majority-owned subsidiary
mallum
mansionettes
mincberg
miniature lever frame
missile system checkout program
multiple instruction single data stream system
musavats
neovascular glaucoma
non-recurring item
optimum load impedance of transmitter
ouricury waxes
PAHR (post accident heat removal)
pentapropyl
perugina
plantbased
portella
potassium cobalt(ii) carbonate
potassium-calcium manure
prenylcitpressine
prick the ears
punch card code
radiation era
ran out
realism about theories
rebop
reference trajectory reentry guidance
resonance method of measurement
rhytid-
run diagram
send sb up
serial carry
share allotment
Sheikh Husein Bridge
slave-making ants
sleep heavily
SpIK(NBL-10)Cell(CCL-78)
station sergeant
stearothermophilus
sure as a death
swordfighter
tariff revision
top compression ring
trowel elevator
turbine circuit
underrecognizes
visites
volt (v)
walk effect
war loans
wrong with
zygotic induction