【英语时差8,16】超流=超级怪异
时间：2018-12-27 作者：英语课 分类：英语时差8，16
英语课
Superfluid = Super Weird 1 Imagine you’re enjoying a nice cool drink on a hot summer day when all of a sudden your cool liquid leaps out of the cup towards the sun, or starts climbing up the sides of the cup and spills over the edge. You might think you’re living an episode of the Twilight 2 Zone, and you’d be right–sort of. The everyday liquids we encounter–from our kitchen faucets 3, or in our soda 4 cans–would never be so odd tempered. But, there are some liquids that are just this strange, although we would never encounter them in our daily lives. These substances, called superfluids, can only be found on Earth in laboratories, where they are meticulously 5 manufactured by scientists. They’re aberrant 6 in nature because, for one, they are very, very cold–much colder than any naturally occurring thing on the planet. While Antarctica is at its coldest 130 degrees Fahrenheit 7, superfluids typically run about 330 degrees colder than that, near absolute zero. For example Helium, which we typically engage in its gaseous 8 form. It liquefies at about ten degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero, and turns superfluid six degrees colder. Held in a cup, it will climb the walls of its chamber 9 in a very thin layer up and over the cup’s rim 10. Shine a flashlight on a tube partially 11 submerged in superfluid helium, and the bizarre stuff flows upward out the tube, like a fountain, towards the light.
1 weird
adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的
- From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
- His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
2 twilight
n.暮光，黄昏；暮年，晚期，衰落时期
- Twilight merged into darkness.夕阳的光辉融于黑暗中。
- Twilight was sweet with the smell of lilac and freshly turned earth.薄暮充满紫丁香和新翻耕的泥土的香味。
3 faucets
n.水龙头( faucet的名词复数 )
- Water faucets shall be chrome-plated type with ball valve. 水龙头外表为铬镀层。 来自互联网
- The plumber came that afternoon and fixed the faucets in some minutes. 当天下午，管子工来了，几分钟内便把水龙头安装好。 来自互联网
4 soda
n.苏打水；汽水
- She doesn't enjoy drinking chocolate soda.她不喜欢喝巧克力汽水。
- I will freshen your drink with more soda and ice cubes.我给你的饮料重加一些苏打水和冰块。
5 meticulously
adv.过细地，异常细致地；无微不至；精心
- The hammer's silvery head was etched with holy runs and its haft was meticulously wrapped in blue leather. 锤子头是纯银制成的，雕刻着神圣符文，而握柄则被精心地包裹在蓝色的皮革中。 来自辞典例句
- She is always meticulously accurate in punctuation and spelling. 她的标点和拼写总是非常精确。 来自辞典例句
6 aberrant
adj.畸变的，异常的，脱离常轨的
- His aberrant behavior at the party shocked everyone.他在晚会上的异常举止令所有人感到震惊！
- I saw that the insects and spiders were displaying the same kind of aberrant behavior.我看到昆虫和蜘蛛正在表现出相同反常的行为。
7 Fahrenheit
n./adj.华氏温度；华氏温度计(的)
- He was asked for the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit.他被问到水的沸点是华氏多少度。
- The thermometer reads 80 degrees Fahrenheit.寒暑表指出华氏80度。
8 gaseous
adj.气体的，气态的
- Air whether in the gaseous or liquid state is a fluid.空气，无论是气态的或是液态的，都是一种流体。
- Freon exists both in liquid and gaseous states.氟利昂有液态和气态两种形态。
9 chamber
n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所
- For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
- The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。