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
accessories for steel rail
ad-agency
air-to-open
binary format code
bionematicides
block coding
by the ears
charge and discharge regime
chetco
circularis sinuses
Cloete, Stuart
communia
complex velocity potential
concha haliotidis
cooling filter
Dahua ware
decapeptid
differ from
distortedness
divies
dredging sump
ease automatic
efficiency audit
endospermum chinense benth.
exclusion from income
extroverted
extrude tubes
facsimile telegraph
flour purity
Flutena
foamed-slag concrete
from life
fruiting period
genus nesokias
Gerromorpha
get screwed
gets high
ghannam
glassfiber/epoxy/pvc foam sandwich (gep)
guard boom
heterolytic bond dissociation energy
holding onto
incapability
level control device
load memory lockout register
long hundred
long legged fly
measurable magnitude
monocular strabismus
mountain anemia
nadim
neutral circuit
neutron-producing tar-get
newcastle-on-tyne
nonrelocating
obese
obloquious
obstructionists
offer subject to buyer's approval
on the advancing hand
ore dressings
over-bark
overtime pay
periendothelial
portato
postfixing
pre collection
pressure pillow
privatively
progressive stroke
rapid enrollment
re-join
resumed
second-order reaction
series excited dynamo
setting of wheel
Severnyy, Mys
silanating
skepfuls
smith interferometer
snarlingly
snicker
sodium glycerophosphate
speed-altitude trim position
tagball
taxs shield
telegnosis
telished
thc
Tolomac, Mt.
train shed
transitional soil
trichoderm palisade
usurious loan
Valsalva
vestni
vibration power meter
vituline
warrior-mages
whames
Young-Helmholtz theory of colour vision
zoophysiology