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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adjective clauses
alkalinizes
anti-Witness
atmospheric ozone content
atomic number 64
automated direct access to information
bacillus paniflcans
Baer's vesicle
bioinformatic
birdbox
bottom center wheel jewel
bulldozer
canaliculata
Carresse
Cd-banding
Changbong
chicken-and-ham
commissioner of the treasury
commutative rejection
compass locator
critical shortage of
dam & conduit type power plant
de-excitation by gamma-emission
deflation gap
development system
DGPF
diathermocoagulation
diceros simuss
dies communes in banco
direct type recorder
faultline
financial projection
freight or carriage paid to
genus leucogeness
glyoxalate
high birefrigence optical fibre
homoisomerous lichen
hose-in-hose
humorously
insurance-backed
inter-connectedness
interchain disulfide bond
kaolinising
keratoplasia
koffigohs
laaser
Leporidae
Littlewood Nunataks
Lotilla R.
lupeol-3-hydroxyarachidate
makin' waves
malaya jacobsoni
marine magnetic chart
mean loss
methylmesylate
multi-decision
mush coil
my document
Nizhnyaya Poyma
One must drink as one brews.
optimum profitability
overlaping
P-tree
PACDIS
panel joint
Pasteurella boviseptica
plumbosolvent
practical interests
precision polymerization
pseudocelebrities
rail-mounted transtainer
refrigeration load
rhabdocoela
ribbon shape
robstown
Seger cone
select jumper
service braking system
shini-tai
sine oscillation
six sides forging
solid shaft rotor
Sorraia, R.
speak-box
St-Lon-les-Mains
starting damper
stratum cinereum
superfetating
synbranchids
Tacna
taeniura meyeni
telephone office
Tirpate
tpt (transmission path termination)
traytice
triservice
vibration ratio
w.v
well-expressed
WinPhone
word list
Xylorrhiza