蓄水率仍然受氣候影響。
3。 The destructive power of nuclear weapons is impressive。 核武器的破壞力令人驚歎。
同義 stunning(a。 給人深刻印象的)
要點 作者通常會用impressive來描述那些令人印象深刻的事物,起到強調的作用,比如the impressive size of the aquifer,這裡impressive用於強調含水土層之大。
include[in'klu:d]v。 包括,包含;計入
例句 1。 Some animals; including large swimming predators and soft…bodied animals; ate detritus or algae。 包括會游泳的肉食動物和軟體動物在內的一些動物都會吃碎石和海藻。
2。 Many inplete skeletons were found including a plete hind leg that features a foot with three tiny toes。 許多不完整的骨骸被發現了,其中有一隻完整的後腿,其特徵是腳上有三個細小腳趾。
3。 Luckily; the fossil includes a good portion of its legs that were strong and ended in long feet very much like those of a modern pinniped。 幸運地,化石中有其完整的腿部化石,它的腿長而強壯,末端的腳與現代的鰭腳亞目動物相似。
要點 include與contain都有“包括”的含義,但在閱讀時應該注意它們的區別:include強調被包含者只是整體中的一個部分,而contain則著重表達“內含”的意思。
inexpensive[?inik'spensiv]a。 廉價的,不貴重的
例句 1。 Because they were able to import inexpensive goods; they had money available to meet the demand for other products。 因為可以進口低價的糧食,因此他們有錢購買其他產品。
2。 Although photography made accurate images inexpensive and widely available; it lowered its perceived value in relation to the fine arts。 雖然攝影能讓精準的影象變得價格低廉,且能被廣為使用,但卻降低了它與美術相關的感知價值。
3。 Whatever the final answer to the water crisis may be; it is evident that irrigation water will never be the abundant and inexpensive resource even in the agricultural boom years of the mid…twentieth century。 不論對於水資源危機最終的答案是什麼,很顯然,即使是在20世紀中期農業發展