时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:英语课程学习计划和讲义


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One of the most pressing problems facing our world today is the advance of deserts and the droughts this causes. June 17 is officially the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. It was created by the United Nations to draw attention to the seriousness of farmland and forests lost to deserts. The UN General Assembly drew up the “Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa”. This long-titled initiative hopes to reverse desertification. To do this, agencies must educate poorer nations about the dangers of land degradation 1. Such education is one way to help reduce poverty and encourage sustainable development.


UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a speech that “land degradation affects a significant portion of the Earth’s arable 2 lands, directly impacting the well-being 3 of people and economic development of countries”. He added that: “As the population grows, and with it the demand for agriculture production, traditional systems of managing the land are collapsing 4.” Mr. Ban said the UN must work harder to reduce poverty and protect dry lands. He told the world: “The time has come for the international community to recognize that dry land, where nearly half of the world’s poor live, is not waste land. Rather, they are potential areas for agricultural intensification 5 for both food and energy needs.”



n.降级;低落;退化;陵削;降解;衰变
  • There are serious problems of land degradation in some arid zones.在一些干旱地带存在严重的土地退化问题。
  • Gambling is always coupled with degradation.赌博总是与堕落相联系。
adj.可耕的,适合种植的
  • The terrain changed quickly from arable land to desert.那个地带很快就从耕地变成了沙漠。
  • Do you know how much arable land has been desolated?你知道什么每年有多少土地荒漠化吗?
n.安康,安乐,幸福
  • He always has the well-being of the masses at heart.他总是把群众的疾苦挂在心上。
  • My concern for their well-being was misunderstood as interference.我关心他们的幸福,却被误解为多管闲事。
压扁[平],毁坏,断裂
  • Rescuers used props to stop the roof of the tunnel collapsing. 救援人员用支柱防止隧道顶塌陷。
  • The rocks were folded by collapsing into the center of the trough. 岩石由于坍陷进入凹槽的中心而发生褶皱。
n.激烈化,增强明暗度;加厚
  • The intensification of the immunological response represents the body's natural defense. 增强免疫反应代表身体的自然保卫。 来自辞典例句
  • Agriculture in the developing nations is not irreversibly committed, to a particular pattern of intensification. 发展中国家的农业并没有完全为某种集约化形式所束缚。 来自辞典例句
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broken pekoe
busycon canaliculatum
by-pass water meter
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cathode-spray machine
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computer aided test & inspection
congo gum
convergent strabismuss
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curding
cyclic D/A converter
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dendy
dielsiana
dinner napkins
dish skimmer
display bin
do case construct
Dunshaughlin
Duplyan'
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energy jump
essmann
false zero method
fire magnesite-chrome brick
float block
flood control standard
futerer
Garcia Hernandes
Harley Davidson
have a tinker at
haycaps
hydrogenic impurities
I-V characteristic curve of cell
incomplete multiresponse design
Jesus Christmas
joblike
joint verdict
katkov
lapping burn
light corpuscle
limid
loose formations
Macrobid
medium dry sausage
mesocoele
Mesozoa
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microprogram control function
miscellaneous share
moua
nonreversible
Orbitoidacea
out-sourcing
paigeite
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picture charge pattern
pineroes
primary sodium make-up pump
Prozeuglodon
pyramidella dolabrata
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recirculation system suction line
refund of duty
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seminicolous
sequence starting
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Sphaerotheca
strike-slip thrust
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subglobular
supplementary twin
table soccer
tegolophus magnutuberclus
template die
three-blade hub
thymus glands
took a ganger at
transcaucasuss
tretes
trophoneurotic anemia
Verde, Cay
voussoir
waist-line
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