时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2012年


英语课

 But as the landscape alters, there’re new dangers. Everything’s just changing now. Look, the weather is getting worse, the wind picking up. But also, this river is really widening, which means that it’s prime crocodile territory. There are two types of crocodiles in Australia. Salt water crocodiles are man-eaters and they tend to stay near the coast. So far, I’m only seeing fresh-water ones. But even these can attack. Hey, look, look, there you go. There’s a fresh water crocodile, 20 meters away. Let’s see if we can get up a little bit closer. He’s only a small one. Let’s keep an eye around as well. These fresh water crocs are fast. They can run up to 10 miles an hour at short bursts. So you’ve got to keep your distance. What they like here is all these shallow pools that they are just basking 1 in. We’ve got quite a lot of these pools. Let’s just keep moving. Ok, this is a much safer distance to be. It’s about 50 meters back now from the bank. We need to keep that distance and keep following the river there. Freshies can be clearly identified by their long, thin snouts. There’s another, they are all over the place. 


 
Freshies tend to attack if cornered or surprised. I never want to find myself between a croc and the river. Here further downstream, you are more likely to run into salt water crocodiles. And at this time of year, they often head upstream, away from their usual coastal 2 habitat. It’s their breeding season, and that makes them even more aggressive. See that? Look, it’s a salt water crocodile. You’ll be alright in this distance. These guys are the ones you want to watch out for. If he took me, he’d drag me into the water, death roll, and then rip 3 me apart. And the chances of surviving over a crocodile attack in deep water are almost nil 4. Amazing to see so close. But this means there’re salties here. I don’t want to be close to the river. I’m gonna move back inland. Salties have broad round noses and they are considered to be Australia’s most dangerous animal. They are capable of biting with a force of 1 ton per square inch. And scientists believe it’s much stronger than a Tyrannosaurus rex.

1 basking
v.晒太阳,取暖( bask的现在分词 );对…感到乐趣;因他人的功绩而出名;仰仗…的余泽
  • We sat basking in the warm sunshine. 我们坐着享受温暖的阳光。
  • A colony of seals lay basking in the sun. 一群海豹躺着晒太阳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 coastal
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
3 rip
n.拉裂,破绽,激流,浪荡子;vt.撕裂,激昂地说,贬损;vi.裂开,仓促地冲过...
  • He had seen the rip in the book.他看到了书里的裂缝。
  • I tried not to rip the paper as I unwrapped it.我把纸打开的时候,尽量不把它撕破。
4 nil
n.无,全无,零
  • My knowledge of the subject is practically nil.我在这方面的知识几乎等于零。
  • Their legal rights are virtually nil.他们实际上毫无法律权利。
学英语单词
alann
alphabetarian
annihilation(radiation) photon
appraise at the current rate
awkward customer
brain attack
brain plasticity
braziery
calibrated sonic log
cholelithotomy
cup and bob rheometer
Damigni
Darcy-Weisbach coefficient
dehesa de campoamor
di(2-ethylhexyl) phosphate
diaphaneous
digital read-out system
direct-tax
end communication layer
epiparasites
esox
euryhygrobionts
fan mesa
Fannettsburg
Fentrinol
filtering mat
finite part of divergent integral
fiscal code
fix ... up
flexible harrow
forest fire
gyrating sieve
hanuman langur
hardheadedly
Hinterweiler
horse-ranch
horse-shoe mixer
Huntington L.
I spy with my little eye
initiate button
irregular course
junction-type field effect transistor
K.B.E.
kilonova
Kolyuchinskaya Guba
laryngeal hemiplegia
lay someone under a curse
lineal designs
lithographic texture
make-up piece
Mantchoo
mediad
metal-to-ligand
minimal condition
mississippi rivers
modern geometry
monokaryon
neuffer
optical double magnetic resonance
oxless
oxyleuciferin
paraflagella
pelvic outlet
physical planner
pnb
Porphyrian
posterior lateral plate
prolongatus
purely abstract morphophonemics
quadriradial(qr)
quadrupole-triplet lens
rail joint clearance gage
ring barking
rodets
root soluble
sa ilaw pandanggo (phillipines)
sapistor
selfdeprecating
show respect
snap switch
sow in
space charge method
subclass Selachii
supraorganism
synchronizing knob
Syrophenician
tangential force coefficient
the pricks of conscience
Ticino
timeliness
toeplitz recursion
trashion
Tricarnam
unavoidable delay allowance
unmineralized froth
us fancy
verrucous hygroma
voice to text
water-repellence
waveform tracing
well-sized
wobbe