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
absolute motion of plate
Aksu-Ayuly
alternating flux
ammonium cobalt(ii) sulfate
anamolistic tidal cycle
Asian Broadcasting Union
baker-kneed
be entranced with
betwixotland
boiled chicken with macaroni
buffer cascade
bursae mucosa subtendinea
Cargenbridge
cervix metacarpal fracture
chitungwiza
chromatroposcope
claviorgan
cleaner-loader
climb acceleration
coil ignition
colicinogenic
Cynanchum bungei Dcne.
day indicator friction
deformational eustatism
defrosting system by superheated vapour
depressor effect
describers
dilator muscle
dissple
distribution channel density
drawerful
Dutch fucks
elastic energy
electromotance
erratic block
exponential returns
fermiophobic
fillet plane
five of a kind
floating point operand stack
franco-belgian system
gas core nuclear rocket
gas purifiers
gear with drawer
genus Retrophyllum
giotti
gnatholator
government-financeds
have a mind of your own
height of steam-water mixture
horizontal-scanning circuit
hymn-book
hysterographically
isogen
Kanlu
Kingswear
kittery
lateness in ripening
lesser wintergreen
Los Frailes, Is.
Mont-St-Jean
Nephrolepis
neuroenergetics
non-careers
non-interest-bearing
nonactions
nonadaptive
oil precision filter for turbocharger
Oleszno
Organogedy
overlinks
paid-in surplus
paired preference test
parental quality
pin belt
piston ring land
pleasure cruise boat
polyphosphonates
posterior crural region
prehospitalization
price-jones
PROSIG
quilt
racewalked
salinigoin
Shantung soil
slender tubercle
slow-motion dial
smartgrids
social systems perspective
spermaphytes
St Margaret
strict counterpoint
the pole vault
theatergoers
tide wave
timars
unemotionality
unmigrated stack section
vicarious species
viscous-type air filter
width value