时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:英音模仿秀


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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
2-chloro-4-nitroaniline
acanthurus japonicus
aerial picture
ANOMALODESMACEA
asian-inspired
asphalt lacquer
axial flow turbomachine
backward and forward extrusion
banana pancakes
benthic biology
besew
CAD (computer-aided diagnosis)
camgirl
case to move for new trial
clay fire
climax dominant
closed field grazing
cobdenisms
coistrils
Cononley
consideration of
contact order
customs revenue
divide by two
Eddisbury
elasticity of export demand
electric gathering locomotive
enterprising firm
Eugyrinus
expanding ball
Fixed-rate loan
flood the market with
forked lever
full value
giffin
glucoinvertase
glycocholeic acid
goose neck pipe
grip roll
gumboti
Halidor
heaviest-handed
heavy wall pipe
hydraulically operated direction control valve
hyemoschus aquaticuss
icebox pie
intelligent consumer product
James Arthur Baldwin
Kosma
landliving
leiomyoma of appendix
lieberfarb
limit checking
line sawtooth
lying side
Metonic
mono lever control
mooed
morning-break
musculophrenic arteries
ningn
non-specific proteinotherapy
nonloss
nuttinesses
Nyaän, Bukit
parallel serial
particle size analyzer
PenchiFormation
Porvoo(Borgå)
proper distribution
Rhynchodina
ro-sham-bo
roller-conveyor
s interface
sandow
satisfactory operating state
schedule outage rate
self-acting control
seock
shitfits
sidesticks
smooth someone's path
sole plane
spice curing
Spinal Tap-ian
sufferin'
tea houses
thermal oxidizer
think little of
thumb nut
topographical prominence
total hours remaining
trouble-shooters
ucb
us osha
variable palmoplantar keratoderma
varying hare
vessel cost
Viansin
working majority
worshippings