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 PJ
adenophora polymorpha ledeb.var.latifolia
advance to officers and employees
alamance
angiopteris somai
Australian Open
boorelie
brazing temperature
Brit-com
butter print
call loan panic
cheesing off
Chloxyle
class hyalospongiaes
clepe
coercion dilemma
colored tree
compressed image data
contact form
coxa rotatoria
Cravagliana
ddptype
delay boxes
delustrant
Deut
diapyema
diffractometric method
dishonour a cheque
DW (demineralized water)
elgon
ENB
enhanced-mode
exempt from conscription
farolito
feed finger
fellicate
fibsters
give color to
go to the land
grace-and-favour
grain broker
in clusters
iodine catgut
isobathyic line
land mark
large tractor
law of logarithm
lead tetraethyls
Leptodermis forrestii
lighten up
liquor prescription
machamer
mbp (monobutylphosphate)
medial ligaments of wrist
mole channel
multiobservational
Nabatîyé et Tahta
necessary evil
neikrugs
neotokoronin
non-starters
on-court
oxidation induced stacking fault (osf)
PC speaker
peripheral venous pressure
phase-shifting type
polypteriform
probability elicitation
purification by chromatography
push on the control wheel
ramjet exhaust nozzle
range-amplitude display
rate of straining
red fish meal
reference device
ribbon conveyor
sand and mud foreshore
scintillation-decaay time
sea-ice
seedy-toe
signal coding equipment
slam dance
Small Holding Act
Smirnovka
smoking bed
sprue pin
subgrade moisture content
sword and sandal
syntonizer
The Extension of Admiralty Jurisdiction Act
theory of genome
thermo aeroelasticity
tiling window
triclinate
ultraviolet reconnaissance
value-laden
vitamin tablet
volublest
volume pump
WACMR
weak-focusing magnet
Wolffian ridge