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
accumulation
administrative assistant
air dried strength
ambushments
Anastasii, Bukht
Andre Markoff
armilet
aspiration-arthrography
big bedbug
binary coded decimal digit
cable tv system
cansts
close-cycle control
corner fitting
cowberries
Data Circuit-terminting Equipment
Dhaya
diopside granitite
direct release
diversiflorous
donation income
doumani
dried vegetables
dromomane
eclecticize
Ecomat
electric differential pressure transmitter
eria nudicaulis hay.
exterior solution
facet
facetus
family dicksoniaceaes
finalistic
flaxenish
free associations
French sash
fundamental function
gastric band
gemme
generalized infection
gills-over-the-ground
Hasselberg
hemicyclic flower
hexadecenedioic acid
huttenlocher
i-streiht
Indiana isopentane process
indicating board
infringers
ink-horn term
introduction of shares
iterative phase-change constant
jangers
ketleys
key industries fund
lead distance
ledbetters
leidsepleins
long to do
MGC (maximum guaranteed capacity)
mihi
Myet
nervonic
nodal diameter
onespace
Petrousa
pi minus
pilot jack
pitching rule
Premna straminicaulis
quasi-steady operation
quotees
reacting capacity
reel fed
rhyacichthyids
rope skipping
sand perch
scophthalmuss
seaborn
single lever type
smashing in
sound absorbent
Soveja
spume
subcutaneous synovial bursa
symptom(s)
tape core
tele-politics
thanatomicrobiome
TO a person
tonic train
turnicid
ultrapaleontology
under certain circumstances
under half steam
universal output transformator
unkill
urban afforestation
water coconut
white sea bass
y?eh kuan
zoneperfect