on Climate change, 政府間氣候變化專門委員會,簡稱IPCC,是一個附屬于聯合國之下的跨政府組織、在1988年由世界氣象組織、聯合國環境署合作成立,專門負責研究由人類活動所造成的氣候變遷。改委員會本身并不進行研究工作,其主要工作時發表和執行《聯合國氣候變化框架公約》有關的專題報告。
glacier
n. 冰河;冰川
eg. Rocks of assorted sizes and shapes are embeded in the bottom of a glacier.
多種尺寸和形狀的巖石都埋藏在冰川的底部。
buzz
n. vi. 發出嗡嗡聲
eg. There was some little buzz of conversation going on among the people.
不時聽得人群中有喁喁私語的聲音。
percursor
n. 預兆
eg. Viewed as a precursor to a wider open data movement, it could be as important as any we have seen in the web era.
它被視為更寬泛的數據開放運動的先導,它將像我們在互聯網時代看到的所有重要的事物一樣重要。
specter
n. 幽靈,恐怖之物
eg. No man, if he be truthful, can say that the specter of war is banished.
沒有人,如果他是真誠的,能夠說戰爭的幽靈已經被消除。
nonlinear
adj. 非線性的
eg. Snake is linear, but when it feeds back into itself it becomes the archetype of nonlinear being.
蛇是線性的,但當它回身咬住自己的時候,它就變成了非線性物體的原型。
thawing
n. 融解
eg. Frozen products should show no signs of thawing.
冷凍產品應顯示沒有解凍的跡象。
permafrost
n. 永久凍土
eg. Canadian researchers expressed serious concerns about the erosion of permafrost in the Arctic.
加拿大研究人員對北極地區永凍層的侵蝕表示嚴重關切。
immense
adj. 巨大的
eg. They plunged into their work with immense zeal.
他們以極大的熱情投入工作。
millennia
n. 千年期(millennium的復數)
eg.
These forests have reigned supreme for countless millennia.
這些森林生長繁茂已有千萬年之久。
microbe
n. 細菌,微生物
eg. The experiments result is that the microbe play a part of the role of the promotion on form of the bronze disease.
實驗結果表明:微生物在青銅腐蝕中起了促進作用。
debris
n. 碎片,殘骸,(冰川積聚的的)碎石
eg. The debris has piled up against the wall.
那堵墻下瓦礫成堆。
edible
adj. 可食用的
eg. This week, the talk in the blogoma seems to be about all things edible.
這個星期,摩洛哥博客圈談論的似乎是關于所有可食的東西。
methane
n. 甲烷
eg. Whatever oxidises the methane would itself get used up in the process, and so would also need to be replenished.
無論是什么物質氧化了甲烷,自身都會在這一過程中殆盡,因此也需要不斷的被補充。
runaway
adj. 失控的;逃亡的
eg. Our June sale was a runaway success.
我們6月份的促銷大獲成功。