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。
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absorption- contrast image
Acanthocheilonema
adjustable handle
agranulocytoses
allowable tensile stress at design temperature
amyrone
Angistri, Akra
anterior teeth negative space
artifical life
Bandedge
base-pair breathing
bias differential protective system
bicas
blind embossing
camelry
cauldronfuls
cloth emerizing machine
cobbings
collimating device
combined harvester and thresher
complete controlled operation
correspondencies
Cutter author marks
cybersurgeon
danish blues
deltoid eminence
distrade
drooping characteristics
dyadic operction
dynamic gravity measurement
electronic-frontier
erector arm
error estimate
error in data
fixed bulwark
Fludiazepamum
fund for operation foreign exchange
gas pressure lubrication feed
genetic blueprint
got a kick out of
grahamella sp.
greasebombs
gross fixed asset formation
heart failure cell
heavy derrick stool
immunopolysaccharide
inadaptive phase
Inchiquin L.
integrated diode array
journal-box
Kaga-Bandoro
keen raczkowski measurement
larvicidal
lead-acid
lesbigays
limitgauge
Lincang
loggerhead shrikes
long-term loans payable-bank
low latency
magnitude-frequency relation
Maxeys
mechanism of general anesthesia
meier
mesocotylar
microcontrollers
mixing accuracy
multiple-wound armature
navicular abdomens
nonlipid
ostwald process
parallel dash
paroxytonic
partitioners
plastic plate moulding machine
policy racket
prenotify
Priscol
project planning and scheduling
proper mode of membrane vibration
query reply
radioactive mesothorium
repayeth
Saint Gete's disease
samakonasana
scandal soup
sdv (scram discharge volume)
self repulsiion
side veneer-grafting
storage terminal
strategic transitions
string quintet
tapairo
three phase diagram
transmewed
tussah
two-by-two taxiing
Versam
zagging
zaharis
Zapałów
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