时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2012年


英语课

 I’m in the Kimberley in north Australia. It’s a wet season. A thunderstorm is raging. And more rain is probably on its way. I’m making my roof at an angle to help the rain run off. I’ve put up a basic frame made from thin branches and I’m tying it all together with vines. OK, now I just need as much green foliage 1 as I can just to cover this. And that’s gonna be my waterproofing 2. I’m using eucalyptus 3 leaves. They are plentiful 4 in the outback and they make excellent thatch 5. And what I can also do is use some of these smaller, softer stuff as a bit of a springy mattress 6. Look at that. that’s gonna be much more comfortable than that. All I now need is a fire to get these clothes dry. 


 
And the kapok 7 tree shells have kept my tinder dry. I’ve got tinder, some kindling 8 and some wood. And then what I’m gonna use to light a fire is this striker and this flint. And flint is an ancient way of lighting 9 fires. And all this is a modern way of doing it. and I strike the flint there, steel along the flint like that, and it creates a spark. And the great way about this is that will even go when it’s soaking wet. Put a flint right down low and as I strike it, I’m blasting all that spark straight into it. and look, first time. 
 
And it’s not surprising. The spark given off by the flint is over five and a half thousand degrees Fahrenheit 10. And incredibly, it’s brighter than the sun. All I need to do now is gently coax 11 it. 
 
I think the feeling is when it suddenly rains is it brings out fresh hope, you know. And certainly that time which is so dry and so hot, you think how is it possible just to sustain life here. And the answer is when it rains.

1 foliage
n.叶子,树叶,簇叶
  • The path was completely covered by the dense foliage.小路被树叶厚厚地盖了一层。
  • Dark foliage clothes the hills.浓密的树叶覆盖着群山。
2 waterproofing
v.使防水,使不透水( waterproof的现在分词 )
  • The company will come up with a new technique for waterproofing walls. 该公司将推出防止墙壁渗水的新技术。 来自辞典例句
  • Large scope of heat-resistant, waterproofing and the anti-chemical properties. 耐温范围大,具防水及抗化学性。 来自互联网
3 eucalyptus
n.桉树,桉属植物
  • Eucalyptus oil is good for easing muscular aches and pains.桉树油可以很好地缓解肌肉的疼痛。
  • The birds rustled in the eucalyptus trees.鸟在桉树弄出沙沙的响声。
4 plentiful
adj.富裕的,丰富的
  • Their family has a plentiful harvest this year.他们家今年又丰收了。
  • Rainfall is plentiful in the area.这个地区雨量充足。
5 thatch
vt.用茅草覆盖…的顶部;n.茅草(屋)
  • They lit a torch and set fire to the chapel's thatch.他们点着一支火把,放火烧了小教堂的茅草屋顶。
  • They topped off the hut with a straw thatch. 他们给小屋盖上茅草屋顶。
6 mattress
n.床垫,床褥
  • The straw mattress needs to be aired.草垫子该晾一晾了。
  • The new mattress I bought sags in the middle.我买的新床垫中间陷了下去。
7 kapok
n.木棉
  • As all we know,kapok is the city flower of Guangzhou.众所周知,木棉是广州市的市花。
  • Kapok becomes red when spring comes.春天来了,木棉红了。
8 kindling
n.照明,光线的明暗,舞台灯光
  • The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
  • The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。
9 Fahrenheit
n./adj.华氏温度;华氏温度计(的)
  • He was asked for the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit.他被问到水的沸点是华氏多少度。
  • The thermometer reads 80 degrees Fahrenheit.寒暑表指出华氏80度。
10 coax
v.哄诱,劝诱,用诱哄得到,诱取
  • I had to coax the information out of him.我得用好话套出他掌握的情况。
  • He tried to coax the secret from me.他试图哄骗我说出秘方。
学英语单词
-icist
a turn off
accelerator D
Ace1p
adhesive diaphragm type
agonal infection
air exhausted ventilation
antitheatre
Apinch
automatic justification
balkier
Basmachi Revolt
Beirut, American University of
big sioux
boneens
brigands
bull-fighting
car-crashes
coefficient of tractive resistance
collapsed coal basin
continuous pipe-casting machine
corpses'
crib-bitings
currach
disproportionate stratified sampling
divedappers
economics of environmental resource
effective dispersion coefficient
elastical wave measurement
electronic apparatus
electrostriction coefficient
fermented
fine abrasive
fossilisations
free on board destination
gasoline acidity test
Gastrocrom
gatewidth control
genus macroclemyss
genus myxines
getdown to
Gutland
hand brake bracket
Helminthosporium leaf spot
horizontal flyback period
ignoratio elenchis
income protection insurance
jean-philippe rameaus
jitterinesses
kersplode
lencophenga (lencophenga) latifrons
live variable problem
low-density polyethylene
marble bones diseases
mechanized housekeeping
men-in-the-middle
Michael Ellis De Bakey
microkymotherap
militarizing
minimaxing
mixed polar
nabbin'
nanafrocin
neurine
overlap loop
palatials
paraphillia
pickled punk
praecox
programing control
qareh su
quadrature phase detector
radiation colitis
radius-rod drive
re-industrialization
reallification
redundancy (in information theory)
rhythm of life
rite-of-passage
root progression
seasoning
seek-no-further
snifflers
Societe Generale
Sorbicolan
Spondias pinnata Kurz
squarsons
stagewear
stop codon
substernal struma
sweeping period
teeters
tendomucin
terestrolumbrolysin
tetraamyl benzene
textual criticisms
thermal parameter
threshold level
thrummings
viscosity conversion table
volume by volume
WRAM