-
(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
The lava1, unleashed2, transforms the earth. Along its way from comb to sea, it is a force of change, leaving in its wake a course of destruction and creation.
The volcano sculpts3 a surreal moonscape. Huge rocks ferry on the backs of flows, tower over barren plains. It's windy. It's hot. The trees are long gone. But clues to a greener past linger--trunks made of stone, the last remnants of a lush forest. A mould forms when lava engulfs4 a tree and cools before the tree ignites.
The lava has come far from its violent release down across the fields. Nothing could stop it, except the one force that is its measure--the sea.
All we have here are explosions at the ocean entry, building a littoral5 cone6, littoral basically means coast.
When water and lava get trapped together in the tube, steam pressure builds, then explodes. Now after seven months, the tube from one of the new vent7 fissure8 D has at last reached the sea. Kilauea's shoreline is today a battle zone.
The lava has been well insulated on its journey here from the comb. So, it's lost little heat. Now, 2,000 degree molten rock means 80 degree water, a volatile9 mix.
点击收听单词发音
1 lava | |
n.熔岩,火山岩 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
2 unleashed | |
v.把(感情、力量等)释放出来,发泄( unleash的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
3 sculpts | |
雕刻( sculpt的第三人称单数 ); 雕塑; 做(头发); 梳(发式) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
4 engulfs | |
v.吞没,包住( engulf的第三人称单数 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
5 littoral | |
adj.海岸的;湖岸的;n.沿(海)岸地区 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
6 cone | |
n.圆锥体,圆锥形东西,球果 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
7 vent | |
n.通风口,排放口;开衩;vt.表达,发泄 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
8 fissure | |
n.裂缝;裂伤 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
9 volatile | |
adj.反复无常的,挥发性的,稍纵即逝的,脾气火爆的;n.挥发性物质 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
10 spouts | |
n.管口( spout的名词复数 );(喷出的)水柱;(容器的)嘴;在困难中v.(指液体)喷出( spout的第三人称单数 );滔滔不绝地讲;喋喋不休地说;喷水 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
11 tornadoes | |
n.龙卷风,旋风( tornado的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|