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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A-band
absentee landlords
address code
American fly honeysuckle
antiheroic
aortoesophageal
Argonne three-roll tube reducer
avalanche wind
bacteriostatic compound
balletdancer
basows
be concerned in
born poet
centripetalfiber
chevron bones
child neurosis
chlorostigmine
control lamp
control switch-board
cork light trim
country check
ctx
cyclic change
degenerate slave makers
double-band sawmill
down pitch
dystropsin
electroactive species
electronic transistors
entamidine isothionate
entry of judgement on an award
ethnicistic
explosive cord
faraday's disc
fersmite
flight levels
flounder
four-arm pickling machine
gluteus minimus
going alongside with the current
grating lobes of array
greatline
groeneveld
Hamaroy
hangletons
high-altitude photo
horizontal canal
infrakingdoms
injurious insect
ISS/SIC
karp-rabin algorithm
last traded price
leysen
long ciliary nerves
lower scraper
Luppa
mess with
mode bit vector
negative-phase-sequence over current relay
newc
noisy channel coding theorem
non-homogeneity
nonbearingconcrete
Oreocharis cinnamomea
overmoney
push-button cord rewinder
put a tragedy on the stage
Rathbones
reliquism
relodges
return ticket
Riti
rowsgray
S-protein
Sacramento County
salsus
scarper
schisis
seed stock production
semivariety
set at no value
set-net
shallow-water anchorage
ship buoyancy
single property tax
single-mode-fiber
small bench type shaper
special weapons storage site
stretching lineation
telecaster
threaded-sleeve-type fitting
throes
to commemorate
to lose face
torchinsky
traffic-adjusted signal
vesical schistosomiasis
viss-a-viss
wallet stomach
weak acid
yield being increased considerably