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
-iums
androphany
Angelista
anti dependence
arohebient
arthur meier schlesingers
asantehene
ash shumaysi (shumaysah)
atmosphereretaining sinter box
audio cable
be ahead of
Burano lace
bush fallow system
buy up sth
carless driving
cash requirement
ciba cakes
cocooning
Colonospasm
compact subset
cupreous anglesite
cut rate
cystoradiography
de-edit
deanwood
double balanced mixer
drag sails
dump heat test
earhart
end paragraph name
equivalents per million
Erie doctrine
etched figures
fatigue strength for finite life
flowerbed
flux gate magnetometer
Ganora
good luck charm
handles(fixed)
heteropic chromosome
ig
in accordance with the law
insulating vertical support
interlocking ownerships
itsy-bitsy
Jiulong
Julio-Claudian
Koza-gawa
lean oil shale
light force fit
look back to
mainboom
mana weave
mapp
marchons
Methodistical
metosteronnm
microalbumin
midwatches
mixed congruential method
modification field
mopti
multistrand continuous pickle line
mutual inductance particle velocimeter
nicotinamides
non voting stock
Organic Light-Emitting Device
Parachordodes
passagen-werk
peten-itza
phase splitting device
pitch curve
porcellanella triloba
price index of farmers paid
pulse-code-modulation telemetry
querfa
quots.
reinforcement by thickened embedded nozzle
reporting period
rhinehurst
second quqntum number
semi - crystalline polymer
shicker
shilts
significant other
soil plague method
stand sb in good stead
state data
stopgap in transit
submersion dehydration
tank
tap issue
telegraph line
terbium nitrate
there is no other
Tipakui
tmah
to dispatch
tube station
vvips
weighting function
zeh