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。
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ACD
affec-d
allachesthesia
anatomical crown
anti-odontalgic
antigeron
arrhenomimetic
Asalūyeh
Ashmouni cotton
attestive
auction price
auers
bale-hook
be immersed to the lips
Biddinghuizen
biocompass
Blanquilla, Sa.
bond-limited subset
Casser tester
cecil blount demilles
chalet-styles
chronic absenteeism
cinamolol
conformal azimuthal projection
contexts
cutting blow-pipe
degree of transfer of information
dual-tubes heat exchanger
empasma
ex-nazis
external oblique muscle of abdomen
extinction of obligations
false exit
fault switching
feed-water sparger ring
fellowmen
frowardly
general strikes
generative grammer
gigantochromoblast
helmick
Hjordkær
hot pot
hour counter lock
incorruptibilities
irrationals
isophcnic
kablan
Kibi
kiln evaporator
laser ablation
layered porous medium
market goods locally
Marumori
massarweh
mean pole motion
mechanical working stress
metasomas
nail ya
neurocardiac
nonexperiential
objective micrometer
office block
optimization of effort
other funds
paper tape transcriber
pedanty
Penicullium viridicatum
pizza party
Porto do Barka
preliminary ada
preservative-treated lumber
progonal
projective curve
Przewaquinone
radiation grill
redefied
repeat-back
reserve position in the fund
road head
rusbanks
serrabrancaite
Sino-Japanese
spook out
springin'
subendazole
surface contact diode
switched message network
tailgate
three-high mill
tietz's syndrome(albinisum-like syndrome)
transliterate
underdeck cargo
uninterruptable power system
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user names
Voorschoten
wear-reducing value of lubricant
world space week
wrenchful
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