时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:英音模仿秀


英语课
模仿文本: Half of us live in one of the world's great urban sprawls 1, the concrete and glass habitats we create for ourselves. Our cities have spread and replaced wildlands, and they roar and blaze with the energy from fossil fuels. They're colossal 2 and sometimes magnificent. But how substantial are they? Will they stand the test of geological time? 
 
译文: 我们当中有一半的人居住在那些遍布全球的了不起的城市地区,也就是我们用水泥和玻璃为自己建造的居所。我们的城市不断扩展,依靠消耗化石燃料产生的能量制造喧闹之声,发出耀眼之光,取代了荒野。它们庞大无比,有时还很壮观,不过它们有多么坚固结实呢?它们能经受得了地质时期的考验吗? 
 
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1 sprawls
n.(城市)杂乱无序拓展的地区( sprawl的名词复数 );随意扩展;蔓延物v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的第三人称单数 );蔓延;杂乱无序地拓展;四肢伸展坐着(或躺着)
  • The city sprawls out to the west, north and south. 该市向西、北、南方不规则地扩张[延伸]。 来自互联网
  • Explanation: Our magnificent Milky Way Galaxy sprawls across this ambitious all-sky panorama. 说明:我们宏伟的银河系蜿蜒穿过这幅高企图心之全天影像。 来自互联网
2 colossal
adj.异常的,庞大的
  • There has been a colossal waste of public money.一直存在巨大的公款浪费。
  • Some of the tall buildings in that city are colossal.那座城市里的一些高层建筑很庞大。
学英语单词
act of attainder
adiabatic titration calorimeter
antifinance
Aschner's sign
automatic flowcharting
autoteller
bakbred
beachy hd.
brown clay iron stone
capital expenditure & current expenditure
carbacrylic
Carex nemostachys
Carrsville
Cebrionidae
cell-surface differentiation
central battery toll switchboard
cinder cones
competibleness
complex number plane
cyclooctannulated
darkish red
disk-shaped roll
DMSB
Draba stenocarpa
dwarf iriss
Dysosma tsayuensis
e-relationships
effective g factor
electrotonus
endless master tape
etherobacillin
faigman
feed antenna
flluoric
Gabor's expansion theorem
gene targeting vector
gill
go south with
GOT1
guangzhous
gynandrium
gyro-hydraulic steering control
hamilton jacobi's equation
hard coded
hen-coop
Holy Willies
hydraulic knock-out mechanism
hydroxybenzoquinone
incurtaining
intraclass correlation
KFDA
Kirlian
Lamina lateralis processus pterygoidei
luminous carbon arc lamp
mardia
master contrast control
master negative
Meteoriella
micafil
monsoonals
multilevel security proof
new-building
nonmonotonically
Oldisleben
oppong-koranteng
ostruble
pedal extremities
pension-scheme
percentage signs
perpendicularities
phase distribution of field
pienearite
police-brutality
polystigous
price-choosing behavior
processing of symbolic machine instruction
rami pharyngei
rapino
recarburise
rhinitis gangrenosa
rhizophorous
rioches
rydon
S-Link
saprophytic leptospira
scrotums
shirking
soamine
split-series motor
sporodesm
sweetsop trees
television newscaster
Teng-chou
Tennessee Williams
transformed programme
tree-ring chronology
ture fruit
ultrasonic Doppler blood flow imaging
under-currents
vehicle operational reliability
vendage
weight empty