Jackie的听写日志4

gjw

Hi, I’m Jim Black. Before you get started with class today, Doctor Webster(人名） has given me a few minutes to talk to you about the biology department’s ongoing turtle watch project（轻音） down the South Beach（地名）. As many of you probably know, South Beach is an important nesting site（连读） for the green turtle, a type of endangered sea turtle. In the next few days, turtles from several nesting sites re-identified along the beach will hatch and head for the water. The problem is that a lot of these hatchlings will never make it. Raccoons and hungry birds will get many of them before they reach the surf. So we have a 24-hour watch going on now so that volunteers will be on hand to protect the turtles after they hatch. Oh, and we also need someone to notify the owners of beach front homes to leave they yard lights off for the next couple of（连读） weeks. The baby turtles are attracted to artificial lights such as（轻音） torch lights and head lights. In fact, some of them end up on the beach highway（连读）, and are killed by passing cars. So we’re trying to minimize lights on the landward side of the beach. Now if you’re interested, please stop by my office in the biology department and sign（连读） up. What are we asking you to do? We’re asking for at least a 2-hour commitment form each participant. Oh, and please note that turtle-watch activities do not constitute excused absences from class. Thanks.



jackie的听写日志5
Your professor has asked me to talk to you today about the topic that should be of real concern to civil engineers: the erosion of the United States beaches. Let me start with some statistics. Did you know that 90 percent of the coast in this country is eroding, on the Gulf of Mexico（地名） for instance（连读）, erosion averages 4 to 5 feet per year. Over the past twenty years, there has been an increase in（连读） building along the coast, even though geologist and environmentalist have been warning communities about problems like erosion. Someway communities have tried to protect their buildings and roads and to build seawalls. However geologists have found that such stabilizing structure actually speed up the destruction of the beaches. These beaches with seawalls called stabilized beaches are much narrower than beaches without them. You may wonder how seawalls speed up beach loss. The explanation is simple. If the flow of the beaches is gentle, the water energy is lessened as it washes up along the shore. It is reduced even more that returns to the sea so it doesn’t carry back much sand. On the other hand, when the water hit the nearly vertical face of the seawall, it goes straight back to the sea with the full force of its energy and it carries back a great deal of sand. Because of the real risk of losing beaches, many geologists support a ban on all types of stabilizing construction on shore lines.

[ 本帖最后由 gjw 于 2008-8-12 16:54 编辑 ]

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麻烦lz在一个帖子里听写，不必每篇听写开帖！

gjw

The birds you see here in this slide are peregrine falcons. These birds represent a success story among animals on the endangered species list. In the 1970s, the peregrine falcons almost disappeared as a result of the contamination of the food chain by the DDT in pesticide. The presence of the poison in their systems resulted in eggs too weak to support the incubating chicks. Their remarkable recovery is a result of the ban of DDT as a pesticide, aggressive captive feeding programs and their own resiliency. The peregrine falcon is one of the fastest birds alive. They’ve been clocked at 140 to 200 miles per hour in successful pursuit of pray. In addition to speed, these birds fly directly into head winds and they are capable of flying more than 600 miles per day with favorable tail winds. Today with the sophistication of telemetry, the speeds of these birds can be tracked by orbiting satellites, by means of transmitters attached to the bird. For example, peregrine falcons stage in warmer climate, in other words, they spend time in the southern United States awaiting hormonal changes preparing them to breed in the Arctic. Then they migrate north to the much colder Arctic regions. Birds have been tracked from Texas in late April to their nesting ground in Alaska, Canada and Greenland. Now let’s move on to another species of birds, the bald eagles.


slide       n.幻灯片
peregrine falcon     n.游隼
contamination     n.污染
pesticide       n.杀虫剂
incubation    n.孵卵，孵化
resilliency     ???
capative      ???
pursuit        n.追逐，追踪，追赶
hormonal     ad.荷尔蒙的，激素的
track     v.跟踪，尾随
pray

gjw

Ok, so in our last class we were discussing big bands swing music, you remember this was a kind of dance music with a steady rhythm. But today we deal with that sort of music played by smaller jazz bands. It’s called bebop. Now bebop makes use all sorts of new types of rhythms, some of them very irregular. We’ll talk more about that later. But first I want to talk about some of the social elements that I believe contributed to the development of bebop music. To do this, we have to look at when bebop arose and started becoming so popular, which was from the late 1930s through the 1940s, from the time of the great depression right into the 2nd World War. Now one factor that certainly helped create the environment for bebop music was the decline of the United States economy. During the great depression, the economy suffered tremendously. And fewer people had money to spend on entertainment. Then during the 2nd World War the government imposed a new tax on public entertainment, what you might call performance tax. The government collected money on performances that included any types of acting, dancing or singing, but not instrumental music. So to avoid this new tax, some jazz bands stop using singers altogether. They started relying on the creativity of the instrumentalist to attract audiences. This was what bebop bands did. Now remember a lot of big bands had singers. So the instrumentalists simply played in the background and had occasional solos while the singers sang the melody to the songs, but not bebop bands. So the instrumentalists had much more freedom to be creative. So they experimented, playing the music faster and using new irregular sorts of rhythms.





swing                vt.挥舞，摆动，使旋转
irregular           ad.不规则的，无规律的，不合常规的
instrumental     ad.乐器的，用乐器演奏的，为乐器谱曲的
instrumentalist   n.演奏乐器者，乐器家
melody             n.主调，旋律，和谐的调子，美妙的音乐

[ 本帖最后由 gjw 于 2008-8-14 18:34 编辑 ]

gjw

Some of the most practical lessons coming out of research in psychology are the area of memory. People ask why can’t I remember that term from the physics chapter or the date my library book is due. Well for a lot of people, memory may be weak because they don’t use it enough. It’s like a muscle: if you don’t exercise it, it won’t stay strong. That’s why it’s important to keep our minds active, to keep on learning, throughout our lives. We can do this by reading, playing memory games, and seeking out new experiences. It’s my guess though that the lack of mental stimulation is not a problem for students like you. More likely, the lives you all live are so busy and stimulating that this, in itself, may sometimes interfere with learning. Later on we’ll be discussing how information is recalled from memory. But first, the information needs to be recorded, in other words, learned. And for busy people like you and me, that’s where the real problem often lies. If we distract it, or we’re trying to think out what we’re going to do next, the incoming message just might not be getting recorded effectively. And that leads to the first tip for students who want to improve their memories. Give your full attention to the information you hope to retain. Research clearly shows the advantages of this, and also of active learning, of consciously trying to visualize a new fact, perhaps to make a mental picture, even a wildly ridiculous one so the new fact will stick in memory. Let me illustrate that for you here a little more concretely.


stimulate     vt.刺激，激发，促进
visualize      vt.使显现，使形象化
interfere      vi.干涉，干预，妨碍，打扰
distract       vt.分散（注意力等），使分心，娱乐消遣，（被动状态）弄迷糊



太模糊了，太难听了

[ 本帖最后由 gjw 于 2008-8-15 16:51 编辑 ]

gjw

As you prepare to become elementary school teachers, you’ll be hearing a lot of discussion about the relevance of teaching penmanship. Now years ago when I was studying education in college, reading, writing and arithmetic were the basics of elementary school education. It went without saying that writing meant first and foremost penmanship, that is, the neatness of child’s handwriting. Back then, penmanship was often taught as a separate subject from the first grade right up through the sixth grade, long after the children had moved from writing in block capital letters to cursive script. It was considered so important that sometimes prizes were even awarded for the best handwriting. But when we move ahead a few decades into the 1980’s, we see teachers and administrators and even parents telling us that teaching penmanship is a waste of time. With computers, they said, children can successfully manipulate the keyboard or mouse of their home computers before they can even hold a pencil. This change in attitude had an impact on the classroom. In your homework for this week you’ll be looking at what statewide curriculum standards in the US say about penmanship. You’ll see that in many states, penmanship has been de-emphasized in a required curriculum, especially in the later years of elementary school. In California, for example, the curriculum calls for fourth-grade students to… and I quote, write fluently and legibly in cursive or joined Italics, essentially a level appropriate for fourth-graders. But after this, the curriculum makes no further mention of penmanship in grade five, six or beyond. Any higher level of quality or neatness is simply not among the curricular objectives. Your assignment is to look at what the curricular standards for all fifty states say about penmanship.


cursive        a.草书的，手写体的，草书体的
script          n.手写体，稿本
manipulate vt.使用，操作，巧妙的处理
italics          n.斜体字
foremost     a.最先的，最初的，第一流的，主要的
legibly        adv.易读地，明了地

[ 本帖最后由 gjw 于 2008-8-16 16:33 编辑 ]

gjw

Recently some anthropologist conducted an interesting case study in ethnology. Now ethnology as you recall, is a branch of anthropology that deals with how various cultures developed and change. The study was about the development of basket weaving by African-American women who live in the town of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The town is known for its high quality sweet grass baskets which were woven by these women, they’ve been weaving the baskets for generations, handing down the skill from mother to daughter. Some of the baskets have been placed on permanent display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The origin of their basket weaving dates back to the 17th century and even earlier when these women’s ancestors came to the United States from the west coast of Africa. Now, it’s mainly a hobby. But back in the 17th and 18th century African American women wove the baskets for use on the rice plantations. There were two types of baskets then: workbasket and baskets for use in the home. The workbaskets were made out of bulrush. Bulrush is a long, tough grass that grows in marshes. One type of workbaskets was the fan basket which was used to separate grains of rice from the waste. The baskets used in the homes were made out of the more delicate sweet grass. They were used for everything from fruit baskets to baby cradles.


ethnology        n.人种学，民族学，人类文化学
weave          v.编织，编结
wove           a.布纹的，网纹的
bulrush         n.灯心草
cradle         n.摇篮

[ 本帖最后由 gjw 于 2008-8-18 16:31 编辑 ]

gjw

The origin of earth’s moon, the largest moon in the solar system, is still something of a mystery. There are some theories about its origin, however. Now, keep in mind that a theory of the moon’s origin has to be consistent with two important facts. The first fact is that the earth contains a lot of iron; most of it has an iron core. But the moon contains practically no iron. The second fact is that, other than the difference in iron content, the moon and earth are composed of essentially the same minerals, a similarity not shared with any other planet or moon in our solar system. One of the earliest theories of the moon’s origin, I call it the Capture Theory, proposes that the moon was somehow captured by earth’s gravitational force. This theory is improbable, however, because it assumes that the moon and earth formed in different parts of the solar system. If this were true, you would expect the moon’s composition to be much different from earth’s composition, just as all the other planets in the solar system are so different from earth. A second theory of the moon’s origin is more promising. It is sometimes referred to as the Mars Theory because according to this theory, when earth was still molten, it was struck by a planet about the size of Mars. The impact caused the cores of the two planets to melt together and chunks of earth’s crust to be thrown out into space. These chunks came together to form the moon. Now remember, earth’s crust is low in iron because the iron is in earth’s core but high in various other minerals. This then accounts for why there is little iron but lots of other minerals on the moon.

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popcornwl

看了你的，发现自己虽然听过读过，可是一些词都不记得了，迫切需要复习，，，