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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adiabatic coating
air pressure deviation
alverez
antiophthalmic value
apatitic
arrheno
AutoHotkey
automated data capture
automatic expansion valve
bloch-bauer
bonnell
bounty jumpers
business panics
carpsucker
casanares
Catuane
centripetal drainage
cobble ... together
communication transmitter
complete blade
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cost technique
creep under variable stress
depositional sequecne
diddy-bop
digital test equipment
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distribution of capital
doryphyllous
dosis tolerata
duckegg
eiders
electronic simulator
elocular
film projector
flat cooking
flated pointed tool
forwarding step
get the rough end of the pineapple
goal list priority
graduality
hepatolymphomatosis
hyperbolic cooling tower
impressionabilities
indolizine
irenine
jader
jungle hen
late summer
leading brush edge
leaf burn controling
lily-pad ice
limnadiform
line of supply
lineman splice
LOFA (loss-of-flow accident)
longitudinal magnetic field probe
mechanical inclusion
mircoculture
Mohametan
murdris
nejm
neutral ammonium sulfite process
Nitrodiazepam
number of ram strokes per minute
nut sedges
once-firm
outrodes
Palencia, Prov.de
paper-handling
parasympatholytic
particular over
pentane plus
phanes
pitch potentiometer
post central-office
power walkings
pyributicarb
Pānigaon
Pās, Chāh
queens of the may
rapider
recreation ship
rhinitis catarrhalis
Roger Eliot Fry
rudyr
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semifast transport
sheet film holder
spherulite radial growth rate
spreading disk
Thysdrus
tree seed orchard
turnip meth
upright pianoes
uroptychus nigricapillis
Vanil Noir
wearier
wording effect
wunderking
Yochinol
Zibyubin