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
advance of freshet
amalgam cell
ammoebocytogenous
antidrom-
artifical environment
bereavers
Bien Son
black market purchase
blus
bond discount unamortized
boothferry
botanicals
bottom density current
buffi
bufo smithi
capricorn
CAT 6
channel listing
click-thru
coarse plate
code brown
coiled finned-tube type cooler
collection of taxes
column tube
condensation test
craniocerebellocardiac
criteria-cued
critical pressure relief device
dcf formatter
demethylations
dermamyiasis linearis migrans
disgregate
DSAR
educational measure
epinodosin
Evergrande
field ambulatorium
fila terminale
flower-bud abscission
freeze-wellboring
frequency-domain convolution
frontal rain
genus drosophyllums
good-dame
Great Divide Basin
heteropterous
Hnilec
horizon seiscrop section
humeroulnar head
hydrogen cracking
inter-service support
interactive computing
intermediate frequency stage
l.r
lanchara
lashed out
linked veins
Ljubisnja
low pressure hose
madrigalers
Mallotus metcalfianus
metaarsenite
misfit parameter
most definitely
Noeschoengastia
non-depolarization
nonbinary
O. B. E.
obliquus set
operator isomorphism
plasma-ray device
Pluchea pteropoda
PMNL
powerwashers
priesand
primary business
progressive scanning system
Proteaceae
pullis
quatre
Ramus descendens
Red Jungle-fowl
roone
seal sth in
service rack
short-range navigation
sifting
Sohano
stays-at-home
subordinate tree
teledensity
Temin enzyme
Tirend
tricotyledonous
ultrasonic transmitter
unshowy
v-series recommendations
valvula semilunaris
vapor extractor
weld pass
wild ryes
Zhoushan Islands