时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2011年


英语课

 At the top, red eyed, yellow browed and full of spunk 1, they celebrate their ascent 2 and reunion, and are quickly assorted 3 by their ravenous 4 chicks. Now, the earlier, the bigger the adults. More food is the chorus ringing out up and down the shores and cliffs of the Falklands.


 
Migrants who spend their lives gracefully 5 plying 6 hundreds of miles of sea and air, feeding at their leisure are now bound to these frozen shores of rock and sand, battered 7 by the cause of their young, more food.. 
 
It’s nightfall in Australia. Rush hour is in full swing. The little red flying foxes are migrating, and parched 8 with thirsts. But to drink on the wing is a dangerous undertaking

1 spunk
n.勇气,胆量
  • After his death,the soldier was cited for spunk.那位士兵死后因作战勇敢而受到表彰。
  • I admired her independence and her spunk.我敬佩她的独立精神和勇气。
2 ascent
n.(声望或地位)提高;上升,升高;登高
  • His rapid ascent in the social scale was surprising.他的社会地位提高之迅速令人吃惊。
  • Burke pushed the button and the elevator began its slow ascent.伯克按动电钮,电梯开始缓慢上升。
3 assorted
adj.各种各样的,各色俱备的
  • There's a bag of assorted sweets on the table.桌子上有一袋什锦糖果。
  • He has always assorted with men of his age.他总是与和他年令相仿的人交往。
4 ravenous
adj.极饿的,贪婪的
  • The ravenous children ate everything on the table.饿极了的孩子把桌上所有东西吃掉了。
  • Most infants have a ravenous appetite.大多数婴儿胃口极好。
5 gracefully
ad.大大方方地;优美地
  • She sank gracefully down onto a cushion at his feet. 她优雅地坐到他脚旁的垫子上。
  • The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line. 新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
6 plying
v.使用(工具)( ply的现在分词 );经常供应(食物、饮料);固定往来;经营生意
  • All manner of hawkers and street sellers were plying their trade. 形形色色的沿街小贩都在做着自己的买卖。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • It was rather Mrs. Wang who led the conversation, plying Miss Liu with questions. 倒是汪太太谈锋甚健,向刘小姐问长问短。 来自汉英文学 - 围城
7 battered
adj.磨损的;v.连续猛击;磨损
  • He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
  • The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。
8 parched
adj.焦干的;极渴的;v.(使)焦干
  • Hot winds parched the crops.热风使庄稼干透了。
  • The land in this region is rather dry and parched.这片土地十分干燥。
学英语单词
abstruct
alizarine
aminobiphenyl
apparent recovery
aqueduct of cochlea
Argostemma
auto-erastic
bancorp
blind deposit
buenning
burnt up
burraxka silch
candlins
cargo data interchange system
cheirophyllus
chills
cold blast rate
constant-voltage welding source
crowingly
crystallobiont
currency value
defective works
delphinologist
deposition money
disembarrassing
dispelling pathogenic wind from muscles
doublepressing
electrostatic oscillation
elongationpass
English cocker spaniel
equilibrium value
European Council
f.f.c.
family xiphiidaes
fertilitate
grain fanning sorting machine
guard dogs
gum pad
hacendadoes
Hagen, Walter
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
have sth on your mind
henry moores
impact area of payload fairing
insufficient section
intangible products
interim certificate of class
international standard book number(isbn)
iodine coulomb meter
island delta
jean-georges
Jesuit Estates controversy
Jinjin (Ex19)
Karlsena, Mys
Kurowice
labeled image
laser speedometer
lifetimes
Lindy Hop
lner
low density wind tunnel
magnet conductivity
McDowell
moral-anti-realism
neck righting reflex
Neofamid
Nicaeans
Northern Baptist Convention
Novomoskovskiy Rayon
oral gland
orthogonal mode
orthopan film
part replica simulator
peaked wave
pedodynamometer
photon-phonon collision
plutocracies
pony girder
portrait film
power supply control
pre-spawning distribution
premises heating
principal compressive stress
pseudohypha
ray structure
recollectable
research councils
rhombohedral system
second explosion
socialgram
soft wicket
Someone's cake is dough.
stable valley
style-conscious
styptic bitters
substition
subthematic
tau cross
tiklos (philippines)
totalhealth
W-aminocapronitile
Wistaston