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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altitude throttle
Ankarsund
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
babygirls
Ban Suan Klang
bariumize
baronism
basic data type
box girder bridge
Bryeae
cast in chilling
castrogeriz (castrojeriz)
chamoisite
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deputy delegate
dioctyl azelate
Donoghue and Bostock centrifuge
dreader
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ecuatoriana
electrochemical finish
elemis
elleck
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enveloped virus
eslt
family Pholididae
fibre optic cable
gateage indicator
general purpose foils
georheodynamics
goodshot
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gueno
Hall.
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hiatus
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ignite ability
ignited whisky
interior monologues
introversive management
ioad
ionic micelle
Key West National Wildlife Refuge
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little terror
Lobata
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Md. A.
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Mudan electric fan
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show the way
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sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate mixture
square league
starting characteristics test
stilo novo
synthetic gypsum
tar-macadam
tawaite(tawite)
thief sample
Tirunelveli
tonna allium
tree-lights
unexpendable
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Viet's effect
wages owedto employees
waterproof mortar
Weischlitz
whiteface r.
wild honey
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