时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:初学者听力文摘精选


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If you wipe a finger across a household surface that hasn’t been cleaned in the last few days, chances are you’ll come into contact with dust. Look around and you’ll find the stuff everywhere, from the particles floating in a sunbeam to the fine layer of grime coating TV screens, bookshelves, and car dashboards.

如果你用手指在几天没打扫的家具上一划,你的手指很可能会碰到灰尘。环顾四周,你会发现灰尘无处不在,从光线中漂浮的微粒到电视机表面、书架以及汽车仪表盘上覆盖的那层细细的尘垢。



What Is Dust?

什么是灰尘?



Dust comes from everything and, like death and taxes, you can’t avoid it. When things–shoes, rocks, plants, socks, anything at all–begin to break down, they release tiny pieces of themselves into the air.

任何东西上都有灰尘,就如同死亡和税收,你逃也逃不掉。鞋子、岩石、植物、袜子,任何东西开始分解的时候,它们就会释放出细微的粉尘到空气中。



These countless 1 bits settle everywhere, and because matter is always coming apart, dust production is a never-ending business.

这些数不清的微粒到处都是,因为物质在不断地分解,所以灰尘的产生也是永不停歇的。



Dusty

尘垢



In a typical household, dust consists mainly of things such as dead insect parts, flakes 2 of skin, food particles, and shreds 3 of fabric 4. But not all dust is the product of natural decay; we create amazing quantities of dust everyday.

在一个典型的家庭中,灰尘主要由这些东西组成:如死亡的昆虫尸体、皮屑、食物的颗粒以及衣服的碎屑。但是,不是所有的灰尘都是自然衰变的产物;我们每天都在创造数量惊人的灰尘。



For example, a single puff 5 of a cigarette contains an estimated four billion large dust particles. Industry of all sorts, from the sawing of a piece of wood to large-scale steel manufacturing, creates particular kinds of dust. In short, dust is all around, even in the air we breathe.

例如,仅仅是抽烟时吐出的一口烟就包含了大约40亿个大的灰尘微粒。所有工业,从锯一块木头到大范围的钢铁制造,都会产生特定种类的灰尘。简而言之,灰尘无处不在,甚至存在于我们呼吸的空气中。



Because its particles are so small, dust is highly mobile. Westward 6 winds regularly blow dust from the Sahara desert across the Atlantic and into the atmosphere above American coastal 7 towns, where it contributes to some thrilling sunsets.

灰尘微粒非常细小,所以它们的流动性很大。西风携带着撒哈拉沙漠里的尘土跨越大西洋来到美国沿海城市的上空,也为这些城市带来了扣人心弦的日落。



1 countless
adj.无数的,多得不计其数的
  • In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
  • I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。
2 flakes
小薄片( flake的名词复数 ); (尤指)碎片; 雪花; 古怪的人
  • It's snowing in great flakes. 天下着鹅毛大雪。
  • It is snowing in great flakes. 正值大雪纷飞。
3 shreds
v.撕碎,切碎( shred的第三人称单数 );用撕毁机撕毁(文件)
  • Peel the carrots and cut them into shreds. 将胡罗卜削皮,切成丝。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I want to take this diary and rip it into shreds. 我真想一赌气扯了这日记。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
4 fabric
n.织物,织品,布;构造,结构,组织
  • The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
  • I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。
5 puff
n.一口(气);一阵(风);v.喷气,喘气
  • He took a puff at his cigarette.他吸了一口香烟。
  • They tried their best to puff the book they published.他们尽力吹捧他们出版的书。
6 westward
n.西方,西部;adj.西方的,向西的;adv.向西
  • We live on the westward slope of the hill.我们住在这座山的西山坡。
  • Explore westward or wherever.向西或到什么别的地方去勘探。
7 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。
学英语单词
adarism
air patterns
air-inflated structure
analytical liquid chromatograph
anhad
antitrinitarians
Arabically
arcidaes
Ashby de la Zouch
axinost (or axonost)
Babo's psammism
Balmain, Pierre (Alexan dre)
be at bat
blazing star
break faith with
callogobius sheni
Camarillas, Embalse de
carbon bit
carrhotus xanthogramma
certificate of expenditure
checking for leaks
chlorcresol
cicatricial fibromatosis
computer system validation
concurrent validity
cost-justified
cranked spanner
cystic dilatation
deamochore
deferred demand as a determinant
Dethyron
deutsch-jozsa algorithm
digital data encoding
disfranchises
display pedestal
dominatours
dorsocentral region
dreaper & tompkins process
drivis
due payment
dunchurches
exit time
express consideration
Fiat-Chrysler
flashlight battery
folding nucleus
futures non-clearing dealer
genus dendrocalamuss
glomerid
greyeyes
hardfaced
hiding declaration
humid temperate climate
hump resonance
iceways
ICOSC
immuno-fluorescence
independent form description language
ingot pit
intermittent manual blowdown
Keping
Kioto
lavage cytologic examination
lieber Gott
light rose
logical escape symbol
Lolworth
longitudinal-stress
Maccas
menued
mould life
multiple completion packer
outwearied
parasitic prosopopagus
phase correction
portrait painter
pressing-in method
pressure cabin examination
purposive behaviour
quinine acid sulfate
raceophenidol
radio sounding
random fixation of gene
relationship material
reporters committee for freedom of the press
reservoir filter
resident certificate
rhythmeur
savannah
scavenging material
sonic and ultrasonic applications
tachometry
technical analyses
torpedo gunner's mate
Tudoresque
twibilled
unenrolls
unilingualdictionary
unlocking yoke cam driving wheel
venous
width of sowing
zero milk