时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:英音模仿秀


英语课
模仿文本: In the geological past, big events like the onset 1 of Ice Ages or titanic 2 volcanic 3 eruptions 4 and mass extinctions of animals and plants caused the planet to tip into new geological periods. All these upheavals 5 left many traces in the rocks, forming at the Earth surfaces of those times. So are we leaving a similar trail of clues for posterity 6?
 
 
译文: 在过去的地质时期,冰河时期的降临抑或大型火山喷发,以及大量动植物的灭绝都是重大事件,它们令星球骤然进入新的地质时期。所有这些剧变都在当时地球表面的岩石构成上留下了许多印迹。那么我们是否也在为子孙后代留下类似的线索呢? 
 


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1 onset
n.进攻,袭击,开始,突然开始
  • The drug must be taken from the onset of the infection.这种药必须在感染的最初期就开始服用。
  • Our troops withstood the onset of the enemy.我们的部队抵挡住了敌人的进攻。
2 titanic
adj.巨人的,庞大的,强大的
  • We have been making titanic effort to achieve our purpose.我们一直在作极大的努力,以达到我们的目的。
  • The island was created by titanic powers and they are still at work today.台湾岛是由一个至今仍然在运作的巨大力量塑造出来的。
3 volcanic
adj.火山的;象火山的;由火山引起的
  • There have been several volcanic eruptions this year.今年火山爆发了好几次。
  • Volcanic activity has created thermal springs and boiling mud pools.火山活动产生了温泉和沸腾的泥浆池。
4 eruptions
n.喷发,爆发( eruption的名词复数 )
  • There have been several volcanic eruptions this year. 今年火山爆发了好几次。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Over 200 people have been killed by volcanic eruptions. 火山喷发已导致200多人丧生。 来自辞典例句
5 upheavals
突然的巨变( upheaval的名词复数 ); 大动荡; 大变动; 胀起
  • the latest upheavals in the education system 最近教育制度上的种种变更
  • These political upheavals might well destroy the whole framework of society. 这些政治动乱很可能会破坏整个社会结构。
6 posterity
n.后裔,子孙,后代
  • Few of his works will go down to posterity.他的作品没有几件会流传到后世。
  • The names of those who died are recorded for posterity on a tablet at the back of the church.死者姓名都刻在教堂后面的一块石匾上以便后人铭记。
学英语单词
accelerated motion of a fluid
aemulas
agitators
alfilerillo
archeocortex
architecture of textile
asphalt joint filler
audio signal processing
bailing skip
beached
bomber-carrier
boundary frequency
brake cylinder
brakeage
cargo transhipment
chauffie
Cleckleyan
coating plastic
Coelomycetous
cold-mixed grease
coming over
crooked-hole country
cyclic type
damaged due to crushing
Dasht-e-Lut
defamers
dry-gulchings
electromagnetic contactless relay
extraneous material
federal department
finisher scutcher
forecast marginal location factor
french coupling
go somewhere
gochis
heavy industrial district
hemolysins
hepaflavin
indianas
indirectly controlled system
interrupted duty
intestinal atresia
it was understood that
korinhit
labs on a chip
last-year
level-crossiong effect
linear fm (lfm)
live box
lrom
mareth
metosteon
moire effect light
monell metals
mottek
mystery house
Nalgesic
ninevah
on one's knees
organized financial market
paint spraying apparatus
photogeneticbacteria
pis allers
pre-historic times
precontinent
price duty paid
probate judge
provisional
pulp separate
puzzle one's brain
rail corrosion
remote gearbox control
roll up!
saltpetre solt
school of overseas chinese
scratchcards
selbite
self-renewals
selfdom
side light
skelic index
smart cable
soka
SS Troops
stickered
stress of the third kind
sycophantisms
synchronous carrier system
tighten up
tin-lined
tissue preparation
triple seal
uncompensated cavity
unit cell dimension
unsafe sex
vacuum decay
vertical momentum flux
went out on a limb
wished upon
within-cluster