时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:美国英语听力80篇


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[00:05.30]Seven environmental activists 1 from all over the world have received this year's Goldman Environmental Prize.

[00:15.39]The winners were awarded 125,000 dollars each by the Goldman Environmental Foundation.

[00:24.24]The awards were announced last week at the yearly ceremony in San Francisco, California.

[00:32.31]The Goldman Environmental Prize is the world's largest program that honors local environmental activists.

[00:42.24]Environmental heroes representing every continent in the world receive the prize each year.

[00:49.87]Judges choose one winner from each continent.

[00:54.52]However, this year's prize for South and Central America is shared by Oscar Rivas and Elias Diaz Pena of Paraguay.

[01:07.21]They formed a nongovernmental organization.

[01:10.69]The organization works for development that does not harm the environment,

[01:17.04]better farming systems and improved living conditions for poor people in Paraguay.

[01:24.30]Rodolfo Montiel Flores of Mexico won the Goldman Prize for North America.

[01:32.00]Mister Montiel united farmers and environmentalists to stop forest destruction in Mexico.

[01:40.78]Mister Montiel has been in prison for almost a year.

[01:45.64]He is accused of having ties to a guerrilla movement.

[01:49.84]Alexander Peal 2 of Liberia is the Goldman Prize winner from Africa.

[01:56.53]Mister Peal worked to create Liberia's first and only national park.

[02:03.35]He also started the country's first nongovernmental environmental organization.

[02:10.30]Now he is working to improve the national park and surrounding villages.

[02:16.83]Oral Ataniyazova of Uzbekistan won the award for Asia.

[02:23.18]Doctor Ataniyazova started a center for reproductive health and the environment.

[02:30.36]She has worked to improve the lives of local people, especially women and children.

[02:37.62]Lawyer Vera Mischenko of Russia won the prize for Europe.

[02:39.67]Msi Mischenko helped organize the first Russian public interest law organization.

[02:46.41]She also brought the first successful legal actions against the Russian government

[02:52.19]in defense 3 of the environmental and health rights of citizens.

[02:56.94]Nat Quansah of Madagascar won the award for the island nations.

[03:03.29]He is a scientist who is helping 4 to save the forests of Madagascar.

[03:08.54]Mister Quansah developed a health care and environmental protection program on the island nation.



1 activists
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 peal
n.钟声;v.鸣响
  • The bells of the cathedral rang out their loud peal.大教堂响起了响亮的钟声。
  • A sudden peal of thunder leaves no time to cover the ears.迅雷不及掩耳。
3 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
4 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
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a trial period
acidication
adventition
aerodynamic phenomenon
air lubrication valve
al-qaeda
all-relay
all-round vision
animal stalking
antiknock dope for diesel fuel
apple fruit licker
asrc
atmospheric braking
Aurora Canyon
autodyne receiver
bank grading
Bunker Hill, Battle of
Calapoecia
chemical processing plant
chutspah
Clausthal-Zellerfeld
columnae adiposae
consecutive prices
corditis nodosa
decomposition product
degree square
delinquenent account
derere
differential cepstrum
do a
donadio
dormant coagulation
dual level sensing
flow model in porous medium
fractional isotopic abudance
fructus nelumbinis
Gander R.
Giegy-Hardisty process
grain filling
guilt tripping
Heiligkreuz
hit the ties
hopite
humidimycin
immature cell
initiating explosive devices
interrogation tele-signalling system
karman-tsien theory
landing instruction
longship
low/mid wing
Maddenia himalaica
Menodrin
menter
micro normal
monosubcategory
nervous-Nellie
normopathy
null manifold
open type impeller
point circle
ponyridin'
power winch scheme for tugging vessel over rapids
pressed shackle
Processus brevis
Pukaki, Lake
quick-access report
reference value of an influencing quantity
resin bonded sand
running drill
secondary solvent effect
semi continuous rolling mill
semicanal of tensor tympanic muscle
sensitizer ion
shadow swimming
side dressing method
sternocostal joints
Storbron
stream bank protection forest
succinylsulphathiazole
sucktastic
sunlight greenhouse
sushi train
swing hanger pin
terminal-homing accuracy demonstrator (thad)
tetramethyl silicane
thanatomimesis
Theanthropos
threading slot
thyrotropin-releasing hormone
top application
torque chain
TPVA
turn from
umboth
unprejudicate
upwhirled
Uvaria boniana
Westgat
where can...?
winter bushes
wooden dowel