Vacabulary Teaching

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Are We Running Out of Clean Water?

VOCABULARY

Verb

To suffer something difficult, unpleasant, or painful.

持续存在，持久

endure

To go around or through something, or to make something go around or through something.

circulate

循环；传播

distribute

To give something out to several people, or to spread or supply something.

分配；散步，使分布

replenish

补充，重新装满

To fill something up again.

If you drain something, you remove the liquid from it, usually by pouring it away or allowing it to flow away, and if something drains, liquid flows away or out of it.

消耗；流失

drain

breed

培养，培育

To keep animals for the purpose of producing young animals in a controlled way.

VOCABULARY

NOUN

scarcity

不足，缺乏

A situation in which something is not easy to find or get.

glacier

A large mass of ice that moves slowly.

冰河，冰川

The basic systems and services, such as transport and power supplies, that a country or organization uses in order to work effectively.

infrastructure

基础设施

水库

reservoir

A place for storing liquid, especially a natural or artificial lake providing water for a city or other area.

equivalent

对应的事物

Having the same amount, value, purpose, qualities, etc.

irrigation

灌溉

The practice of supplying land with water so that crops and plants will grow.

VOCABULARY

Adjective

If a place is bleak, it is empty, and not welcoming or attractive.

bleak

不乐观的；荒凉的

planetary

行星的，（与）地球（有关）的

Relating to planets.

Not possible to change; impossible to return to a previous condition.

irreversible

不可挽回的

Something that is unsustainable cannot continue at the same rate.

unsustainable

不可持续的

household

A group of people, often a family, who live together.

家用的，家务的

vegetarian

素食的，素的

A person who does not eat meat for health or religious reasons or because they want to avoid being cruel to animals.

VOCABULARY

phrase

run out

用完，耗尽

To finish, use, or sell all of something, so that there is none left.

spread across

遍布

To cover or distribute over an area or range

guzzle up

消耗

To drink or consume in large quantities

pump out

抽出，泵出

To remove water or other liquid from something using a pump.

If a person or thing is swallowed up by something, they disappear into it.

swallow up

吞没，吞噬

依赖，依靠

rely on

To need or depend on somebody or something.

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