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【英语时差8,16】智利地震如何使白天变短-上

时间：2016-03-25 05:07:57

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 Powerful earthquakes-like the ones in Haiti and Chile in 2010-leave destruction in their wake. Buildings collapse1, many people are injured and killed. But the chaos2 created by massive quakes isn’t limited to the regions where they happen. The Chilean earthquake, for example, was so powerful that it tilted3 the earth’s axis4 a few centimeters. What’s even more astonishing is that the quake shook time itself, causing our days to become a little shorter. How Is This Possible? As you may know, earthquakes happen when the tectonic plates that make up the Earth’s crust collide and grind against each other.


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1 collapse aWvyE     
vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷
参考例句：
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
2 chaos 7bZyz     
n.混乱，无秩序
参考例句：
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
3 tilted 3gtzE5     
v. 倾斜的
参考例句：
  • Suddenly the boat tilted to one side. 小船突然倾向一侧。
  • She tilted her chin at him defiantly. 她向他翘起下巴表示挑衅。
4 axis sdXyz     
n.轴，轴线，中心线；坐标轴，基准线
参考例句：
  • The earth's axis is the line between the North and South Poles.地轴是南北极之间的线。
  • The axis of a circle is its diameter.圆的轴线是其直径。

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