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
advanced driver information system
advanced feed tape
antiquer
berdyaev
besperple
bind to set
biocompatibilities
caligula japonic
Calliphora vomitoria
canonical hartree-fock orbitals
cash receipts register
Castagnea
clearing of checks
co load
coenotyte
company policy
competiveness
cornua occipitale
cystolithotomies
dairy food
decapitalize
Dellacruscan
deu-teration
economic tribunals
epicurising
equilibrium proton
facebookers
failure mode analysis
fault point
filiarchy
fly-buttons
formation of a company
geochemical logging
girlie-men
gravitational anomaly
great national assembly
guanayes
head office control account
heating cure
High bit-rate DSL
histioid tumor
Ichuveyemskiy Kryazh
information policy
jucho (chucho)
kittatinny mountain
Knarsdale
Kullu
long-lived asset
louries
low tide
ltv
memory effects
middil
model based parameter estimation
mokais
monophonic musics
Morea
Morgan's Hill
multiplexin
multiviewports
Neo-Serp
obsecrations
of respiration diagram
out operater
oxygen-consumption
Paixhan
pannoranic
papale
Pedra Preta
peribronchial marking
petroleum coke,low sulphur
polyclonals
portable sign
prefestival
preliminary audit plan
quadruple riveted joint
R.S.O.
reamer with pilot and guide
remeet
repeater motor
resident alien
rhenic
rodeo rider
rolling guide
root contours
sensitive monitor
sipple
sjl
splash the oar
stonecrosses
surface ratio
tacito consensu
thermal test reactor
thermocouple sheath
to achieve
tralatician
upper erengy band
Verkhniy Ul'khun
voltage drop
walkleys
yakless