英语听力：自然百科 神秘百慕大 bermuda triangle—3

 Gerrallan needs to escape the fast-developing cloud in order to survive.

 

The tunnel was rapidly getting stronger, and it was a little lower at ten thousand feet to the center of the tunnel so we aimed for that opening and started descending¹ down at fourth maximum airline speed of 230 miles an hour.

The plane squeezed through an opening just 30 feet across.

 

And when I did that, an amazing thing happened. The strange lines instantly formed and they were swirlling counterclockwise, and they went entirely² off the tunnel which appeared to be about ten miles long. And I believe these lines that I was seeing were what I called 'time lines'. I believed that was the fabric³ of time itself that I was seeing.

 

As the haze⁴ clears, Gerrallan discovers he's over Miami beach, 90 miles from where he thinks he should be. He believes what he calls an electronic fog caused the distortion in time and

frets⁵ his equipment.

 

The experienced pilot take the actual work, but ...

 

Now, he and meteorologist professor David Pearce study his experience. 

 

What transpired⁶ has been, you know, bothering over like 40 years and I'm trying to figure out what happened and I think we've come up to I think a very plausible⁷ explanation of why and how this occured.

 

Pearce evaluates the weather conditions on the dates of disappearances⁸ within the Bermuda Triangle. He thinks that Gerrallan's electronic fog could be the cause for many of the vanishings.

 

Now, in the cases like the electronic fog, it doesn't occur everyday. There are certain synoptic situations that occur, meteorological conditions. And I believe that we have the parameters⁹ to forcast this.

 

The meteorologist believes there's a link between the formation of electronic fog and the weather in space. He studies the solar wind, a stream of charged particles jettisoned¹⁰ by the sun's surface. Solar wind travels over 90 million miles through space before it hits the earth’s atmosphere, creating powerful geomagnetic storms.

 

1 descending   

n. 下行 adj. 下降的

参考例句：

• The results are expressed in descending numerical order . 结果按数字降序列出。
• The climbers stopped to orient themselves before descending the mountain. 登山者先停下来确定所在的位置，然后再下山。

2 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

3 fabric   

n.织物，织品，布；构造，结构，组织

参考例句：

• The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
• I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。

4 haze   

n.霾，烟雾；懵懂，迷糊；vi.(over)变模糊

参考例句：

• I couldn't see her through the haze of smoke.在烟雾弥漫中，我看不见她。
• He often lives in a haze of whisky.他常常是在威士忌的懵懂醉意中度过的。

5 frets   

基质间片； 品丝（吉他等指板上定音的）( fret的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The river frets away the rocks along its banks. 河水侵蚀了两岸的岩石。
• She frets at even the slightest delays. 稍有延误她就不满。

6 transpired   

（事实，秘密等）被人知道( transpire的过去式和过去分词 )； 泄露； 显露； 发生

参考例句：

• It transpired that the gang had had a contact inside the bank. 据报这伙歹徒在银行里有内应。
• It later transpired that he hadn't been telling the truth. 他当时没说真话，这在后来显露出来了。

7 plausible   

adj.似真实的，似乎有理的，似乎可信的

参考例句：

• His story sounded plausible.他说的那番话似乎是真实的。
• Her story sounded perfectly plausible.她的说辞听起来言之有理。

8 disappearances   

n.消失( disappearance的名词复数 )；丢失；失踪；失踪案

参考例句：

• Most disappearances are the result of the terrorist activity. 大多数的失踪案都是恐怖分子造成的。 来自辞典例句
• The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease. 间谍活动、叛党卖国、逮捕拷打、处决灭迹，这种事情永远不会完。 来自英汉文学

9 parameters   

因素，特征； 界限； （限定性的）因素( parameter的名词复数 )； 参量； 参项； 决定因素

参考例句：

• We have to work within the parameters of time. 我们的工作受时间所限。
• See parameters.cpp for a compilable example. This is part of the Spirit distribution. 可编译例子见parameters.cpp.这是Spirit分发包的组成部分。

10 jettisoned   

v.抛弃，丢弃( jettison的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was jettisoned as team coach after the defeat. 他因这次失败被撤销了运动队教练职务。
• They jettisoned big boxes to make the bus lighter. 他们抛弃公共汽车上的货物，使车减轻重量。 来自《简明英汉词典》