2011年职称英语冲刺班课件第16讲-理工类.doc

大家论坛职称英语版块：/forum-109-1.html Since 2006, many laboratories have been exploring other kinds of metamaterials that dont involve just visible light. In fact, scientists are finding that almost any kind of wave may respond to metamaterials. At the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain5, Jose Sanchez-Dehesa is working with acoustics, or the science of sound. Just as an invisibility cloak shuffles waves of light, an acoustic cloak would shuffle waves of sound in a way thats not found in nature. In an orchestra hall, for example, an acoustic cloak could redirect the sound waves -- so someone sitting behind a column would hear the same concert as the rest of the audience, without distortion. Sanchez-Dehesa, an engineer, recently showed that its possible to build such an acoustic cloak, though he doubts well see one any time soon. In principle, it is possible, he says, but it might be impossible to make one, he adds. Other scientists are looking into ways to use larger metamaterials as shields around islands or oil rigs6 as protection from tsunamis. A tsunami is a giant, destructive wave. The metamaterial would redirect the tsunami around the rig or island, and the wave would resume its journey on the other side without causing any harm. 词汇： cloak /kl?uk／n．斗篷，披风 metamaterial／,met?m?ti?ri?l／n．超材料 full-fledged／fulfled?d／adj.完全成熟的，完全合格的 hyperlens /haip?lenz/n．超透镜 acoustics / ?ku:st?ks /n．声学 tsunami / tsunɑ:mi /n．海震，海啸 注释： Invisibility cloaks：隐形衣。在《哈利·波特与死亡圣器》(Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)一书中，哈利通过邓布利多的转交继承了他父亲的隐形衣。该书是英国女作家J．K．罗琳创作的哈利’．波特系列小说的第7部。…had it not been for the development of metamaterials:……如果超材料尚未得到开发的话。该句使用的是虚拟过去时的倒装结构。虚拟过去时表示与过去事实相反的假设；因为是倒装结构，所以将情态动词had提到主语之前。如使用正常语序，该句可写为：… if it had not been for the development of metamaterials.“meta” means beyond, and metamaterials can do things beyond what we see in the natural world一一like shuffle light waves around an object, and then bring them back together: “meta”的词义是“超越”，metamaterials（超材料）能做出我们在自然界看不到的事情，例如将