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
additional document
adviser, advisor
aiphanes truncata wendl.
announceth
anti-globalization
Arctium minus Bernhardi
automatic data-switching center
Bakanas
beefy suit
bioquinone
blacksmith's slag
blade retainer
body louse
Brims Ness
bucket can
cantator
capital accounting
clevidipine
closed bomb
colored mortar
colutea arborescenss
commonwealth
computer operation
consumption allowance
creep crack
Cultural Revolution
dashpot rotameter
DC comparison type potentiometer
Dietl's crisis
dipropyl carbonate
direct consumption coefficient
dissociation tension
dizamn
Dostoyevsky
drearihead
endowing
etydion
Euerbach
ever-smokers
faucet of construction
fireset
gasfilled
gieringer
glycuronuria
gold sterilization policy
good leasehold title
googlability
hammily
hand wheel screw down
Hegranes
hemorrhagiferous
holocenes
hoppenheim
horde-
hourly growth rate
hydrotherophytes
i-taxed
Iringa
Kurop-to
leaf-cutter ant
leggatt
line type
Lithane
lithocarpus hencei rehd.
lockages
Machida
Madhubani
maletreats
mental irritability
menu tree
metastatic tumor of ovary
non-inhibitable interrupt
normal final age
pentabromoethane
planktotrophic
podosome
polyvinyl chloride shrinkable film
preserved egg
prestigiations
price sovereinty
progressive bonding
ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus in seawater
receive sequence
rising characteristic
Runding
sacret
Sambanghyǒp
sequitur
smoke and fog effect
soddie
sporomorphidium
stitching warp
T.G.B.
the thread of life
Thean
tined harrow
trichechus inunguis
unilateral signalflow
vestibule of larynx
withholding period
Woodford County
ypsilon