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
access to classified information
adiabatic apparatus
agency general
airwaybill
ALTARE (automatic logic testing and recording equipment)
armajani
Aussie battler
BAg, B.Ag
Blackloists
bottom supporting drilling platform
burden of taxation
cardiospermum grandiflorums
cash tickets
colourfield
complex plex structure
costusroot and coptis pill
curlycup gumweeds
current overhead percentage
cyclobalanopsis salicina
de-humanizes
decontaminating reagent
deglamorising
disappreciated
dynamic error band
dynamics of plate interiors
erythrosome
ever now and then among
farysia olivacea
foreign currency bill
freira
fuel injector cooling water
glaciations
Gloag
gr?nlandite (greenlandite)
Grande Elobey, I.de
grass is greener...
gravitational flux density
gray threshold
grid roll
hardcopy unit
hd-ready
heap-leach
hollow-core construction
human resources model
in process of
innocent as a babe unborn
insisted
insisteth
jeromes
ladder winch
lake quillwort
lopseed
lower half bearing
lympho-megaloblast
Makou
mcspotlight
multilobed pressure charger
mutinist
natural correlation
Nuňez Peninsula
off-trades
oil operated reverse gear
package lead
PAFD
paracorolla
paramicrodon nigripennis
performance time objective
phytopathogene
pin drafter
police offence
polycyclohexyl methacrylate
potetometer
prohibition list
purple squirrel
pyrogen-free
quick-acting relay
radiobroadcast
relativisation
reversing station
Rojales
rotary line selector type interphone
sassage
self-deprecatingly
Serenelfi
shear(ing) rate
simarouba glaucas
superwind
syncytial
taloqan
taylor circular aperture distribution
terbogrel
titular
two-high roller leveller
unconformities
underbalanced
unpitched sound
virtual access extension
we belong together
weak duality theorem
wind-fire angle
written-out program