时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2014年


英语课

 The global average could be up 7 degrees F by the end of the century, wreaking 1 havoc 2 with weather patterns and habitats. We can't prevent climate change by preserving the air's delicate blend of gases, the unique mix that sets earth apart. And our planet is also marked by how this blend sets above the surface in a distinct layer structure. As we rise above the clouds and winds of lower altitudes, we enter a completely new zone---a world of extreme temperatures and ever thinning air, air that will kill us in seconds, but which shields us from deadly radiation. We live in a tiny sliver 3 of earth atmosphere called the troposphere. Winds and clouds, rain and snow dominate this turbulent zone. But above it lie miles of freezing dry air. The conditions there will kill a human in seconds, but we desperately 4 need the high atmosphere's weight and protection. Engineer John Powell's balloon team has spent 27 years exploring its layers, pushing further and further into this remote, dangerous world. 


Sometimes if you run into a phenomenon that we have no idea what that was. we just have this moment of data, you know, that we need to go back and explore. But it really is like a completely alien form of world out there.
The team has made over 90 launches. Each one edges them closer to their ultimate goal of reaching space. 

1 wreaking
诉诸(武力),施行(暴力),发(脾气)( wreak的现在分词 )
  • Coal mining is a messy business, often wreaking terrible environmental damage nearby. 采矿是肮脏的行业,往往会严重破坏周边环境。
  • The floods are wreaking havoc in low-lying areas. 洪水正在地势低洼地区肆虐。
2 havoc
n.大破坏,浩劫,大混乱,大杂乱
  • The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
  • This concentration of airborne firepower wrought havoc with the enemy forces.这次机载火力的集中攻击给敌军造成很大破坏。
3 sliver
n.裂片,细片,梳毛;v.纵切,切成长片,剖开
  • There was only one sliver of light in the darkness.黑暗中只有一点零星的光亮。
  • Then,one night,Monica saw a thin sliver of the moon reappear.之后的一天晚上,莫尼卡看到了一个月牙。
4 desperately
adv.极度渴望地,绝望地,孤注一掷地
  • He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
  • He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。
学英语单词
adjustable currency
amplitude adjustment
animals for research
as-yet-unknowns
automatic recording titrator
b. coccygica
bearwald
Beau Bois
Bernoulle polynomial
Bevagna
brachial plexus injury
Britannical
bundlet
cast salt on someone's tail
catch the imagination of
cerebrand
closed center system
clutch pedal link rod
copal opal
courthey
cyclosilicate
delection
descending manner
Einhorn tube
epithalamiums
excitation voltage
executed punishment
faradine
free fall model
gantly drilling machine
general circulation of atmosphere
go to the bed
grudgeless
hebridean isless
held a candle to
helictical
homogeneous A-submodule
horn anvill
hypaesthesia
hypermetropia
Iki-suidō
inpulse blade
interlude
iridium trihydroxide
jointly managed device
kailan
Kennewick
key cap
lateral thyrohyoid ligament
leuk
lithostrome
marine drilling
maxted
measurement type
Mengkibol
miscellany
multinational force commander
multiplex printing telegraphy
multiproduct batch plant
nanomeds
non-oriented electrical steel
non-stem
offshore oil exploitation
paleographer
paludic
pandorina morum bory
people-search
phospho(r)-
photochemistry
physical connectivity
posterior intermediate sulcus (or dorsal intermediate groove)
posturography
procaine hydrochlorides
production flow analysis (pfa)
profits maximization
quei
quest constant
question in hand
rate of table traverse
rated weight capacity
referent
remractomete
rga
robot observation
semitendinosus muscle
sends
slited
specification tolerance
take-off speed
Takikawa
tamesides
tediferous
terminal block
the simple present tense
toxinosis
trimnasium
unhumanized
uranium-lead dating
wall sth in
wave generating machine
whirling current
yakker