英語學習筆記

Mickey: The blazing heat is cooking me. It's only late spring but the temperature says "middle of summer."
Sofia: Tell me about it. Global warming is a real hot topic lately. According to a news report I read on Yahoo!, the warm temperature melted an area of western Antarctica that adds up to the size of California!
Mickey: Whoa! That's terrible. People have to do something to stop it.
Sofia: And they are. A few days ago, mayors and business leaders from more than 40 of the world's biggest cities gathered in New York for a summit devoted to combating climate change and cleaning up the environment. Something we can do right now is to consumer less electricity.
Mickey: To keep the earth from warming even more, I'm willing to give-and-take. I'll start by turning of the air-conditioning!

解析: give-and-take==施與受

blazing
blaze, blazed, blazed
blaze n.火；火焰
blaze vi. 發出火焰；燃燒 vt. 使燃燒；使著火
blaze vt. 傳播；宣布...的消息
heat n. 【理】熱；熱力, 高溫；炎熱
lately adv. 近來；新近
melt vi. 融化；熔化 vt. 軟化
melt, melted, melted
Antarctica n. 南極洲
Antarctic Zone 南極區
gather vt. 集合；使聚集 vi. 會合, 化膿(如瘡膿)
gather, gathered, gathered
summit n. 頂點；絕頂(如山巔), 最高的官階；政府的首腦級 adj. 高階的(如會議)
summit conference, summit meeting, summit talk 高峰會議
devoted adj. 摯愛的；忠實的
devote vt. 奉獻；供奉
devote, devoted, devoted
combat vi. 格鬥；爭奪；爭鬥 vt. 反對；抵抗
combat, combated, combated
electricity n.電