托福写作--环境类好词好句积累

发布时间：2012-10-24

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各位同学：
本周我们一起讨论了写作中的环境话题。
本周的作业：
1 复习课堂上ppt里的词汇及句型。
2 完成第二单元的6句话练习。
关于环境话题的好词好句：
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into a natural environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms.
Pollution can take the form. of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light.
Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants.
v More (to somebody/something) than meets the eye
v 人不可貌相；有表面上看不出来、隐而不显的事
v Joel may look like an ordinary person, but there’s more to him than meets the eye.
v 警方认为他们在处理一起平常的抢劫案，可是事情并非初看上去那么简单。
v The police think they are dealing with an ordinary case of robbery but there's more to it than meets the eye.
v 这项工作看上去容易，但有见不到的难处。
v The job seems easy, but there's more to it than meets the eye.
v But there’s yet another side to icebergs. Many microscopic animals live inside icebergs and in the water around them. These creatures feed on minerals that the icebergs store and release as they melt.
v But there’s yet another side to icebergs.
v 此句用以描述某事物还有不为人知的另外一面
v But there’s yet another side to the argument!
v There’s yet another side to the decision whether to buy a new car or not.
v air pollution
v light pollution
v littering
v noise pollution
v soil contamination
v radioactive contamination
v thermal pollution
v visual pollution
v water pollution
v be dying out
v be becoming extinct
v be on the verge of extinction
v be under the threat of extinction
v 如果野生动植物的栖息地减少了，它们可能就灭绝了。
v If the habitat of wildlife is cut down, they may go extinct.
v Once the wild were on the verge of extinction, the natural ecology would be ruined.
v 一旦野生动物趋进灭亡，大自然的生态环境也将随之毁灭。
v Whaling kills up to 2, 000 whales a year, including species on the verge of extinction.
v 每年的捕鲸数量接近2000头，包括濒临灭绝的物种
v The earth planet is under the threat of serious species extinction and desertification, so many other problems that we have neglected.
v 我们生活的地球也面临严重的物种灭绝和土地沙漠化等环境问题…我们忽视了太多问题。
v 工业化
v industrialization
v 城市化
v urbanization
v 沙漠化
v desertification
v 现代化
v modernization
v 酸化
v acidification
v 海水淡化
v desalination
v photochemistry
v 光化学
v chemical transformation
v 化学转换
v prevailing wind
v 主风，盛行风
v dispersion
v 散布，分散
v estuary
v 河口，江口
v runoff
v 径流量
v aquatic ecosystem
v 水生生态系统
v forest productivity
v 森林生产率
v dry deposition
v 干沉积
v 由于工业化和城市化，野生动植物的自然栖息地想独善其身是不可能的。
v due to/industrialization/urbanization/stay intact
v Due to industrialization and urbanization, it is impossible for the natural habitats of wildlife to stay intact.
v 酸雨导致湖泊和河流酸化，破坏高海拔地区的树木。
v cause/acidification/at high elevation
v Acid rain causes acidification of lakes and streams and contributes to damage of trees at high elevations.
v release
v discharge
v emit
v emission
v release sth. into sth.
v 植物释放这种气体进入大气。
v Plants release the gas into the atmosphere.
v the release of sth.
v 存活的树木可以吸收碳，许多科学家认为释放到大气中的碳会使得地球变暖，并加速了全球气候的变化。
v Living trees absorb carbon and many scientists believe the release of carbon into the atmosphere is warming the planet and fueling global climate change.
v discharge sth. into sth.
v 将污水直接排入大海 sewage
v Sewage is discharged directly into the sea.
v the discharge of sth.
v 有毒废物排放入大海
v the discharge of toxic waste into the sea
v emission
v 汽车尾气证明是酸雨的罪魁祸首。culprit
v Car emission has proved to be the culprit of acid rain.
v 环境恶化
v environmental degradation
v a deteriorating environment
v 水质恶化
v water quality deterioration
v 恶化
v be worse off
v 最近一项调查显示，大多数人认为如果我们再照现在这样发展下去的话，世界环境将会变得更恶劣。
v A recent survey shows that most people feel the world will be worse off environmentally in 50 years if we go on the way we are now.