Step by Step2000 第二册UNIT 12 News (III)
时间：2018-12-27 作者：英语课 分类：Step by Step2000
Unit 12 News (III)
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1. An avalanche 1 is a large amout of ice, snow, earth, rock or other materials sliding down the side of a mountain or falling down a cliff.
2. A mudslide is a slow-mving mudflow that moves down a gradual slope.
3. An earthquake is the sudden release of strain energy in the earth’s crust resulting in waves of shaking that radiate outwards 2 from the earthquake source.
4. A cyclone 3 is a storm or ystem of winds that rotates around a center of low atmospheric 4 pressure, advances at a speed of about 30 to 50 kilometers an hour, and often brings heavy rain.
5. Hurricanes are tropical cyclones 5 with winds that exceed 64 knots or 74 miles per hour and circulate about their centers in the western atlantic ocean.
6. A tornado 6 is a violent destructive whirling wind usually accompanied with severe thunder, lightening, and torrents 7 of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth.
7. A typhoon is a type of violent tropical storm with strong circular winds that exceed 74 mph. It happens especially in the pacific ocean.
8. A drought is a period of dryness especially when prolonged that causes extensive damage to crops or prevents their successful growth.
9. A flood is a rising and overflowing 8 of a body of water especially onto normally dry land.
10. A forest fire is a wild fire or an uncontrolled fire that is burning in frest, grass or other areas of vegetation.
- They were killed by an avalanche in the Swiss Alps.他们在瑞士阿尔卑斯山的一次雪崩中罹难。
- Higher still the snow was ready to avalanche.在更高处积雪随时都会崩塌。
- Does this door open inwards or outwards?这门朝里开还是朝外开？
- In lapping up a fur,they always put the inner side outwards.卷毛皮时，他们总是让内层朝外。
- An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
- The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。
- Sea surface temperatures and atmospheric circulation are strongly coupled.海洋表面温度与大气环流是密切相关的。
- Clouds return radiant energy to the surface primarily via the atmospheric window.云主要通过大气窗区向地表辐射能量。
- The pricipal objective in designing cyclones is to create a vortex. 设计旋风除尘器的主要目的在于造成涡旋运动。 来自辞典例句
- Middle-latitude cyclones originate at the popar front. 中纬度地区的气旋发源于极锋。 来自辞典例句