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
absorber bore
acoustic baffle
age-dependent birth and death process
air wedge
alfaias
anti-gravities
anticollective
asger
associated measure ring
beztr
biohermal limestone
Bourg-Achard
brass bobbins
caliginosities
counter-current chromatography
CPO
crediblest
cum sole
curcumadiol
currency depreciations and appreciations
deepends
dielectric loss characteristic
dissentism
drop-away reset
eare
economic vitality
Egyptain calendar
eluviation
epaxial muscle
escape tones
excitonically
familiar to
Fastmet
Florahome
grab-rails
Hausdorff content
hazard identification
high-voltage supply
HWSR (heavy-water suspension reactor)
improvement of stand condition
inflexion of the noun
jejunity
kanji teleprinter
keratoplastics
lichenometrical
lowermost
main curtain
massive planting
meninx serosa
microsieve
mobile
Musaf
Nodi lymphatici pretracheales
pancreatic nodule
penaeidae
pens in
pipkrake
plan position information
poison camass
Pomorskiy Bereg
powdered product
power rated
Processus retromandibularis
pupilla
putaminaceus
Rejang
restis
rigid shear lugs
Rockingham
rugitus
sarcoma
scale buildup
schroeteriaster glochidii
sedge wrens
siderous
silicon semiconductor
social welfare loss
specialized information sources
split resistance
split the wind
stochastic coalescence equation
strength riveting
styringomyia nipponensis
sylphish
syrphus vitripennis
tee hanger
tooth crushing pressure
transaction program
tunnel through error
tv interview
two-in-one motor
unbundlers
unfinished work
unicell
vine-grower
wall - to - wall carpeting
weasel words
wellfleets
Williams pear
woollypod vetch
yin shan yai hua chung wu tzu t'u
zoppot