时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:生活英语情景口语


英语课

M: what did you do over the weekend?


K: I went a global warming rally 1 in London. It was fantastic to be around so many people who care about the environment.


M: do you think there's anything we can do to reverse 2 the damage that's been done already?


K: it might not be possible to fix the problems that we've created for ourselves, but there are lots of things we can do to prevent more damages from happening.


M: like what?


K: well, we can use public transport instead of taking our cars for a start.


M: what else can we do to protect the environment?


K: if you do have to drive, you should make sure that your car runs on unleaded petrol. Also, your home should use sources of renewable energy.


M: how about recycling? Does that actually help?


K: yes. You should take your glass, paper, plastic, cardboard 3, and tin cans to a recycling center.


M: what do you think is the biggest worry for our future?


K: I think that the issue of greatest concern is having enough sources of clean water for everyone.


M: I had no idea you were such as environmentalist before!


K: to be honest, in order for the earth to continue to be a habitable place, we're all going to have to become more interested in the environment.

这个周末你都干什么了?

我到伦敦去参加一个有关全球变暖的集会.周围有那么多人都在关注环境问题,可真是好事!

我觉得要想逆转目前我们队环境的破坏,有什么能做的吗?

我们自己酿成的恶果已经不大可能解决了,但是为了防止情况继续恶化下去我们还是有很多事情可以做的.

比如那些?

恩,大家可以乘坐公共交通设施代替自驾车.

想要保护环境还有什么其他可做?

如果非开车不可,那一定要用无铅汽油.而且,家里一定要坚持使用可持续能源.

废物回收呢?这有帮助吗?

有的.玻璃,纸张,塑料,硬板纸盒罐头盒都可以送进回收中心.

那你觉得未来最令人担忧的是什么问题?

我觉得最大的问题是是否有足够的水资源够每个人使用.

我以前还真不知道你是个环保主义者.

坦白说,为了让地球能够一直适合人类居住,我们都应该多关注环保问题.

Rally: a large public meeting, especially one held to support a particular idea or political party 公众集会,群众大会(尤指支持某信念或政党的)

to attend/hold a rally 参加/召集大会

a peace/protest rally 和平/抗议集会

a mass rally in support of the strike 支持罢工的群众大会


reverse: to change something completely so that it is the opposite of what it was before 颠倒;彻底转变;使完全相反

to reverse a procedure/process/trend 彻底改变程序/过程/趋势

The government has failed to reverse the economic decline 4. 政府未能扭转经济滑坡的趋势.

It is sometimes possible to arrest or reverse the disease 5. 有时可以阻止病情发展或使病情彻底好转.


Renewable: of energy and natural resources 能源和自然资源 that is replaced naturally or controlled carefully and can therefore be used without the risk of finishing it all 可更新的;可再生的;可恢复的

renewable sources of energy such as wind and solar power 像风力和太阳能这种用之不竭的能源


Habitable: suitable for people to live in 适合居住的 adjective 6

The house should be habitable by the new year. 房子到新年时应该就可以住进去了.


Well, we can use public transport instead of taking our cars for a start.

'for a start'用于强调一系列理由、意见等的第一条,首先.

I'm not working there─for a start, it's too far to travel. 我不去那边干活儿--首先,路太远,去不了.


I think that the issue of greatest concern is having enough sources of clean water for everyone.

the issue of the greatest concern:最大的问题,最令人担心的问题


 



1 rally
n.集会,公路汽车赛;v.集合,恢复,振作
  • The grand mass rally was held on the square.广场上举行了盛大的群众集会。
  • The team captain vainly tried to rally his troops.队长试图振作部队的士气,但没有成功。
2 reverse
v.推翻,颠倒,反向;n.反面,逆境;adj.反向的
  • His answer was just the reverse of what I expected.他的回答正好与我期望的相反。
  • Please reverse the positions of two pictures.请把两张图片的位置倒转过来。
3 cardboard
n.硬纸板,卡纸板
  • She brought the shopping home in a cardboard box.她将买的东西放在纸箱里带回家。
  • There is a sheet of stiff cardboard in the drawer.在那个抽屉里有块硬纸板。
4 decline
n.衰微,跌落,下降;vt.使降低,婉谢;vi.下降,衰落,偏斜
  • I must decline to show favour to any of the candidates.我必须拒绝偏袒任何一位候选人。
  • The birthrate is on the decline.出生率在下降。
5 disease
n.疾病,弊端
  • The doctors are trying to stamp out the disease.医生正在尽力消灭这种疾病。
  • He fought against the disease for a long time.他同疾病做了长时间的斗争。
6 adjective
n.形容词;adj.形容词的,用作形容词的
  • Don't apply that adjective to me.不要用那个字眼来形容我。
  • The adjective loose has several senses. 形容词loose有几个义项。
学英语单词
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Acer metcalfii
after-drying
Almanach de Gotha
ameiva ameiva
anastral mitosis
berdache,berdash
Big Valley
bogwoods
broad-arrow engine
commercial frontage
computer storage hierarchy model
Covenant Code
cryptocarine
darnest
distastefulness
draft apparatus
energetics of ecosystems
external spur gear
fibrocartilago interarticularis
fired heater
formylating agent
fortunacy
garbh
Gettorf
ghutra
Gilbert, Is.
group think
harelipped bat
hose beast
khvansar (khunsar)
label(l)ed atom
lancifolia
laplace's transformation
lattice-type frame
laugh against one's will
leave sth. out of consideration
leptastrea bewickensis
levigating
light triggered alarm
low-frequency rebroadcasting
marmaduc
maximum length of pile
meanly
meter wave
Methods Engineering Council
milliamp
mineralizes
Ministry of Labour and Personnel
mis-sware
modulating valve
monstrant
moozy
n-period moving average
narrative strategy
neurochemical
non-sulfur purple bacteria
nonaggregating
outbidden
Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus
Paraphlomis gracilis
paravanes
parliamentarian
PB(Pushbutton or Pull Box)
per square inch
pesoizing
phyllachora laurinearum
pickled steel wire
Poa dshilgensis
pregnancy diagnosis
probabilistic fracture mechanics
propelling
prorupt
put something to the touch
Rabdosia excisa
radiolytic gas
recursive definition of domain
safety disc
school law
seawater filtration
semiconductors
Sicayari, Mesa de
sigma notation
ski boot
social identity theory
ST_disease-and-illness_losing-consciousness
steppes
string expression interpreter
suicide cable
Tardamid
templet tamper
twentieth
uniform algebra
untranslatables
Vaitupu
variable threshold decoding
verbal plea
villagers
wall collision
Wuchereria malayi
you've made your bed, now lie in it
zizyphus incurva roxb.