手机APP下载

您现在的位置: 首页 > 英语听力 > 国外媒体资讯 > 读者文摘 > 正文

读者文摘:关于雷暴雨你不知道的13件事(2)

来源:可可英语 编辑:kelly   可可英语APP下载 |  可可官方微信:ikekenet
 下载MP3到电脑  批量下载MP3和LRC到手机

6 Rubber tires are not what protect you from lightning when you're in your car.

6当你在车里的时候,橡胶轮胎并不能保护你免受闪电电击。
You're protected because when lightning hits a car, it travels around the outside of the metal structure to get to the ground.
毫发未伤是因为当闪电击中汽车时,电它会绕着金属结构的外部移动到地面。
Just be careful not to touch any metal areas on the interior.
小心,不要在车内碰到任何金属区。
7 By one measure, Tropical Storm Claudette was the wettest storm in U.S. history.
7据估,克劳德特热带风暴是美国史上最潮湿的风暴。
It dumped 43 inches of rain in 24 hours—the most rain ever recorded in one day—on Alvin, Texas, in July 1979.
1979年7月,德克萨斯州的阿尔文,24小时内降雨量达43英寸,这是记录以来一天降雨量最多的一次。
8 You can be struck by lightning even when it's not raining.
8即使不下雨,你也可能被闪电击中。

读者文摘

About 10 percent of lightning strikes take place when there's no precipitation.

大约10%的雷击发生在没有降水的时候。
9 In the 1980s, NASA flew one airplane through 1,496 thunderstorms.
9 20世纪80年代,美国宇航局驾驶一架飞机穿越了1496场雷暴。
It was struck by lightning more than 700 times.
被闪电击中700多次。
This was part of an effort to improve lightningprotection standards in aviation, and it worked.
此次行动旨在提高航空防雷标准,起作用了。
Today, a commercial airplane will be hit by lightning about once a year on average, typically with no ill effects.
如今,商用飞机平均每年会被雷击一次,通常情况下不会给飞机造成任何不良影响。
It has been decades since a U.S. airliner has crashed as a result of a lightning strike.
一架美国客机因雷击而坠毁已过去几十年。
10Every day, twice a day, weather trackers simultaneously launch giant balloons from almost 900locations worldwide
10气象追踪器每天同时从全球近900个地点发射巨型气球,每天发射两次,
(including 92 released by the National Weather Service in the United States and its territories).
(包括美国及其属地的美国国家气象局公布的92个地点)。
The balloons measure aboveground weather data such as temperature, humidity, and wind speed,
气球测量地面上的天气数据,如温度、湿度和风速,
and they provide vital information that meteorologists use to make forecasts and predict storms.
提供重要信息供气象学家预测风暴。

重点单词   查看全部解释    
simultaneously [saiməl'teiniəsli]

想一想再看

adv. 同时地(联立地)

 
predict [pri'dikt]

想一想再看

v. 预知,预言,预报,预测

联想记忆
initial [i'niʃəl]

想一想再看

n. (词)首字母
adj. 开始的,最初的,

联想记忆
explanation [.eksplə'neiʃən]

想一想再看

n. 解释,说明

 
vital ['vaitl]

想一想再看

adj. 至关重要的,生死攸关的,有活力的,致命的

联想记忆
precipitation [pri.sipi'teiʃən]

想一想再看

n. 坠落,沉淀,凝结,冰雹,降雨量,仓促,急躁

联想记忆
tropical ['trɔpikəl]

想一想再看

adj. 热带的,炎热的,热带植物的

 
rubber ['rʌbə]

想一想再看

n. 橡胶,橡皮,橡胶制品
adj. 橡胶的

联想记忆
strike [straik]

想一想再看

n. 罢工,打击,殴打
v. 打,撞,罢工,划

 
vague [veig]

想一想再看

adj. 模糊的,不明确的,犹豫不决的,茫然的

联想记忆

发布评论我来说2句

    最新文章

    可可英语官方微信(微信号:ikekenet)

    每天向大家推送短小精悍的英语学习资料.

    添加方式1.扫描上方可可官方微信二维码。
    添加方式2.搜索微信号ikekenet添加即可。