环境科学和工程专业英语Environment.pptVIP

Environment 2013-08-28 New Words Phrases Artifact: An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool, a weapon, or an ornament of archaeological or historical interest. 人工制品：人工生产或仿制的物品，尤指工具，武器，或带有考古或历史趣味的装饰品. Virus: Any of various simple submicroscopic parasites of plants, animals, and bacteria that often cause disease and that consist essentially of a core of RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein coat. Unable to replicate without a host cell, viruses are typically not considered living organisms. 病毒：各种动物、植物和细菌的简单亚微观寄生虫之一，常引起疾病，主要由核糖核酸或脱氧核糖酸的一个核组成，周围有蛋白质包围。离开寄主细胞不能复制本身，病毒通常不被认作为是生物体。 Fungi: fungus的复数。 Any of numerous eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Fungi, which lack chlorophyll and vascular tissue and range in form from a single cell to a body mass of branched filamentous hyphae that often produce specialized fruiting bodies. The kingdom includes the yeasts, molds, smuts, and mushrooms. Famine: A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage. 饥荒：食物严重的，普遍的短缺。 真菌：一种缺乏叶绿素和血管组织的真菌界真核生物，存在形式从一个单细胞到整个枝状菌丝体不等，经常可产生专化子实体。这一界生物包括酵母、霉菌、担子菌和蘑菇。 chlorin: 氯 chlorinated:含氯的; 氯化(了)的 stratosphere: The region of the atmosphere above the troposphere and below the mesosphere. 平流层：位于对流层之上中顶层之下的范围的大气 stratospheric: Of, relating to, or characteristic of the stratosphere. 平流层的：属于、关于平流层的或具有平流层的典型特征的 A colorless,odorless,incombustible gas, formed during respiration,combustion, and organic decomposition and used in food refrigeration(制冷）,carbonated beverages（饮料）, inert（惰性的） atmospheres, fire extinguishers, and aerosols（气溶胶）. 1) Where earlier people limited ability to alter their surroundings, we now have power to extract and consume resources, produce wastes, and modify our world in ways that threaten both our continued existence and that of many organisms with which we share the planet. Translation 2) A relatively new field, environmental science is highly interdisciplinary, integrating natrual of the world aroud us. 3) While there are