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
2T sine squared pulse
a most
acceptance requirements
alhadef
allowable compression stress
angular readout
artery of bulb
back-crank pumping unit
beshow
bubble generator
cathode ray instrument
cloacae
clot culture
commercial and industrial taxes
control storage
conventment
countercuttent extraction
cuckle
database availability ratio
David Roland Smith
densmores
differential U-tube
Doppler inertial system
double topsail
drain cock
dried separated milk
edgers
effective stress path
egr filter
engineering properties
eschericbia
faece
Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz
flour bag cloth
friction velocity
gastrosalpingotomy
gate spool
Gaussian wave group
gen about/on
handicap-accessible
herself
high speed digital computer
hydrangiology
in-sack drier
indirect desulfurization
interpretation of a reduction rule program
Joseph Banks
legal operation
lipomatous neuritis
lrish moss extract
Lychins floscuculi
Macrocypracea
made his own way
magic T balanced mixer
mendeleviums
methylacetanilid
micro combustion burner
micrometer run
micronodular cirrhosis
milling heads
monoclinal shifting
monolepta excavata
natrium iodohippuricum
no-as
ohio r.
Omachi
ostium uteri
overploughing
Pan troglodytes troglodytes
pay-as-you-go basis
pells
plinking
plutonic igneous rock
poblacin
pompine
poolesville
portable dust sampler
pre-support
print shop
radiofrequency polarography
Raneya
regreen
roll magazines
root hairs
Saussurea grandiceps
scaggy
self-open
shaft vision
shock power
special privilege monopoly
standardized denomination
suction cutter dredger
telophase (heidenhein 1894)
Tenuostracus
triboluminescene
two-phase boundary layer
ultra porcelain
vaginulas
wander azimuth
warmups
Yponomeuta
zeylanite