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 starfish
accelerating factor
accent grave
addictive drugs
Afrikol
agammaglobulinemic
algol-types
ammonium ceric nitrate
antisemitics
arghly
atonalism
awas
being-for-itself
binding nature
bull-nose stretcher
bumbards
bups antenna
chateauneufs
cherub rotor
colleage
cowarce
cowpies
Crepis lignea
crude oil partial oxidation process
crunt
current queue
cutoff governer
cycloidal motion
dextroposition
earth leakage circuit-breaker
ecological risks
elliptical life raft
emulsion dispersion
excitation of cavity mode
false centre
farm-lands
feedwater heating type heat recovery combined cycle unit
film recording
forcipomyia (lasiohelea) virgula
Forssman
freeze out someone
freeze pop
fucata
full funding of pension
generation output
gentleman farmer
genus gerardias
glass-makers
Gonâve, G.de la
hairinesses
imminute
inch for nominal size
inclusio
individual judging
iodine 125
kalan
Khadafy
lattic dynamics of metal
Lichenales
light solvent naphtha
LO (liquid oxygen)
luxuriousnesses
Madras hemp
mansicles
membranolysis
mine bulker
multilength arithmetic
Non Heat Treatable Alloy
normal increment
optical radar system
out of phase current
parental
phosphoproteomes
pilot chair
placental hemangioma
pot boiler
pulse converter supercharging
pyroclastic surge
retreative
rocker tool post
seasonal curve
semi refined
shotgun shack
speed of spindle
spin precession
spiral chuck
splanchnic nerves
standard horsepower
supply honest goods at honest price
symmetrical spherical triangles
Takino
talk back to
thatness
time-interval counter
to explode
topmost
trustee business
uest
up-top
variant name
vicq
wide of the mark