[by:英语听力网|http://yingyu.chazidian.com||查字典英语网] [00:00.00]喜欢chazidian.com，就把chazidian.com复制到QQ个人资料中！Lesson 53 Hot snake [00:14.64]触电的蛇 [00:29.28]Key words and expresions [00:32.01]关键词和短语 [00:34.74]hot [00:36.02]热的 [00:37.30]fireman firemen [00:40.44]消防队员 [00:43.57]cause [00:47.29]导致 [00:51.02]cigarette [00:52.60]香烟 [00:54.18]start [00:55.56]惊动 [00:56.95]accidentally [00:58.53]偶然 [01:00.11]remains [01:01.58]遗体 [01:03.06]electric wires [01:04.64]电线 [01:06.22]volt [01:07.54]伏特 [01:08.86]power line [01:10.30]高压线 [01:11.73]solve the mystery [01:13.51]解开谜底 [01:15.28]snatch [01:16.71]抓起 [01:18.13]spark [01:19.52]火花 [01:20.90]Here are these questions: [01:25.77]有以下问题： [01:30.64]1 What are forest fires often caused by? [01:36.52]森林大火经常是由什么引起的？ [01:42.40]2 What let the firemen to discover the cause of the fire? [01:48.97]是什么让消防员发现火灾的起因的？ [01:55.54]3 What was the explanation? [02:00.07]这场火灾的解释是什么？ [02:04.60]At last firemen have put out a big forest fire in California. [02:08.84]消防员终于扑灭了加利福尼的一场森林大火. [02:13.07]Since then,they have been trying to find out how the fire began [02:16.49]从那时起,他们一直试图找出起火的原因. [02:19.91]Forest fires are often caused by broken glass [02:22.84]森林火灾时常由破碎的玻璃 [02:25.76]or by cigarette ends which people carelessly throw away. [02:29.03]或人们随手扔掉的香烟头引起. [02:32.29]Yesterday the firemen examined the ground carefully, [02:35.27]昨天,消防队员仔细查看了地面, [02:38.25]but were not able to find any broken glass. [02:40.89]但未能发现碎玻璃. [02:43.53]They were also quite sure that a cigarette end did not start the fire. [02:47.00]他们还十分肯定火灾也不是由烟头引起的. [02:50.48]This morning,however [02:52.21]然而今天上午, [02:53.95]a firemen accidentally discovered the cause. [02:56.52]一个消防队员偶然发现了起火的原因. [02:59.10]He noticed the remains of a snake [03:01.42]他发现了一条死蛇 [03:03.75]which was wound round the electric wires of a 16,000-volt power line. [03:07.77]缠绕在16,000伏高压线上 [03:11.79]In this way,he was able to solve the mystery. [03:14.61]就这样,他解开了起火之谜. [03:17.43]The explanation was simple but very unusual. [03:20.76]解释很简单,却异乎寻常. [03:24.09]A bird had snatched up the snake from the ground [03:26.77]一只鸟把蛇从地上抓起来, [03:29.45]and then dropped it on to the wires. [03:31.67]然后把它扔到了电线上. [03:33.89]The snake then wound itself round the wires. [03:36.62]于是蛇就缠住了几根电线. [03:39.35]When it did so, [03:40.93]当它这样做时, [03:42.51]it sent sparks down to the ground and these immediately started a fire. [03:46.69]把火花送到了地面,这些火花立刻引起了一场大火 [03:50.87]This is the analysis of the text.Part 1.以下为课文讲解。 [04:57.25]以下为课文讲解。讲解一 [06:03.62]Part 2 [08:07.76]Part 3 [10:35.43]Part 4 [12:58.97]Part 5