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气象科技英语
English For Meteorological Science and Technology
扩展大气科学类专业英语词汇量
熟悉专业术语及专业英语的特殊语法
掌握气象专业英语翻译技巧
顺利阅读外语文献资料和书籍
学习目的
Learn English ,
Go Abroad,
To Watch the World!
课时安排
总学时
32
,周学时
2
.
由于学时有限,实际的课堂教学以第一部分为主,第二三部分供课余学习。
第一部分学习
8
课,我们课堂详细阅读讲解。
Part One: Reading materials of English for meteorological science and technology
参考教材
寿绍文等,
《
气象科技英语教程
》
,气象出版社,
2002
何三宁等,
《
气象科技英语翻译
》
,气象出版社,
2010
C.Donald Ahrens
,
《Meteorology Today》
,
2009
钱正安,
《
气象科技英语
900
句
》
,气象出版社,
1999
盛芝义等,
《
科技英语
900
句
》
,气象出版社,
1991
讲课方式
课前请同学们预习将要上的课程,课堂上以提问方式,讲解方式为主。并挑出其中的长句、难句重点分析。对于每一课挑选出的重要的专业词汇,要求同学们熟练掌握.课后总结复习。
考 试
闭卷
概述
(
前言
)
科技英语是描述科技用词中各种语言现象和特性的一种英语体系,它是用来进行国际科技交流的重要手段。全面的专业英语能力应包括读,写,译,听,说等五个主要方面.对于本科生来说,应基本具备这五方面的能力,尤其是
读
。
这对于今后阅读英文文献,掌握国际科研最新动态是必不可少的工具。
English for special purposes(ESP)
English for science and technology(EST)
English for meteorological science and technology
75% of the 30,000 journals are in English
working language for most of international conferences is English
气象科技英语的语言和文体特点
科技文体是一种信息语言体,是科技工作者借以传递科技信息的媒介。
科技信息的主要内容是客观真理、一般规律、具体事实和科学设想等,具有较强的客观性和科学性。因此,科技信息必然是可定义的、可比较的、可分类的、可计量的和可验证的。围绕以上信息,人们可进行论证、讨论,提出假说等,而这又要求有严格的逻辑推理过程和手段。
气象科技文体也不例外,从文体上讲较多使用议论或说明文体,追求归纳概括、列举演绎、证明、假设、推理等功能,语言要求做到概念清晰、数据准确、逻辑严谨、思路缜密。
气象科技英语文体在词汇、短语、句子、修辞和语篇
各个层面上都有其自身特点。
气象科技英语的语言和文体特点
一、词汇特点
气象专业英语词汇大体包括五种类型
大气科学专用词汇
通用科技词汇
派生合成词汇
缩略语
普通词汇专业化
1.
大气科学专用词汇
Troposphere
对流层
stratosphere
平流层
ridge line
脊线
trough line
槽线
climatic feedback
气候反馈
meteorology
气象学
frontogenesis
锋生作用
active-monsoon periods
季风活跃期
synoptic model
天气学模式
radarsonde
雷达测风仪
这些词汇的词义精确而狭窄,专业性强
2.
通用科技词汇
通用科技词汇有多种含义,因此使用时一定要弄清它们在不同学科或领域中的确切意思,不能随意使用,以免造成误解。
同一词语语义的多专业化
3.
派生合成词汇
合成词:
指由两个或其以上的英语单词构成的词汇
Counter-circulation
反环流
Raindrop
雨滴
wind-finding
高空测风
Leap-day
闰日
派生词:
指通过词缀手段产生的词汇
anti-: anticyclone
反气旋
anti-icing
防积冰
sub-: subtropical
亚(副)热带
subpolar
副极地
再如:前缀
hydro-,hyper-
和
inter-
分别表示“液体”,“超过”,“交互”等意义。
(
hydrobiology
水生物学 ,
hyperactive
活动过度的)
是指通过合成、转化和派生构词手段而构成的词汇
4.
缩略词
EASM: East Asian summer monsoonEAWM: East Asian winter monsoon
WMO: World Meteorological Organization
AO: Arctic Oscillation
ENSO: El Nino and Southern Oscillation
5.
普通词汇的专业化
(
1
)气象科技英语中的普通词汇专业用途。
这类词汇在日常生活和在气象学科词义是一致的。
5.
普通词汇的专业化
(
2
)气象科技英语中还有一部分词汇,从其基础意义来看,它们完全是普通词汇,但在气象学科中有专业化的词义,翻译时需要注意
气象科技英语的语言和文体特点
二、句法特点
大量使用被动语态
这是科技英语的显著特征,因为被动句强调的是客观、真实,拒绝的是主观和臆断
被动语态的应用主要是突出这些主体,让其做主语,可以让读者重点注意到这些叙述中的客观事实、现象、实验和结果等
气象科技英语的语言和文体特点
二、句法特点
大量使用被动语态
大量使用非谓语动词
在科技英语中使用非谓语动词结构可以更好、更准确地描述各个事物之间的关系,事物的位置和状态的变化,以及语气的加强和强调动作的概念等。
非谓语动词
是指在句子中不是谓语的动词,主要包括
不定式
、
动名词
和
分词
(现在分词和过去分词。
气象科技英语的语言和文体特点
二、句法特点
大量使用被动语态
大量使用非谓语动词
大量使用名词化结构
用名词词组或短语(主要是用具有动作意义的名词
+of+
修饰语)来表示一个句子的意思,就是名词化结构
气象科技英语的语言和文体特点
二、句法特点
大量使用被动语态
大量使用非谓语动词
大量使用名词化结构
大量使用后置定语
后置定语具有简化结构、加强语气、强调动作概念、详解事实等目的
The stratosphere is the atmosphere layer
above the troposphere
.
平流层是
位于对流层上面
的大气层
后置定语包括介词短语、形容词及其短语、副词、分词及其短语、定语从句等
气象科技英语的语言和文体特点
二、句法特点
大量使用被动语态
大量使用非谓语动词
大量使用名词化结构
大量使用后置定语
大量使用长句和复杂句
气象科技英语的语言和文体特点
三、修辞特点
句子和时态的使用特点
大量使用陈述句型,谓语动词倾向于多用现在时,主要以一般时为主,如一般现在时、过去时和将来时。
2.
语气的使用
使用条件句较多,偶尔也会采用虚拟口气,使口吻变得委婉和圆滑。
气象科技英语的语言和文体特点
四、语篇特点
Unit One: The Structure And Composition Of The Atmosphere
第一课
大气的结构和组成
New words:
gaseous
气体的
inhomogeneous
不均匀的
;inhomogeneity
Profile
廓线,分布
Altitude
高度
;height;
Meteorological
气象的
Aerological
大气学的
,
高空的
WMO
(
World Meteorological Organization)
世界气象组织
temperature profile
Terms
中文
廓线、剖面
廓线仪
风廓线
风廓线探测雷达
profile
profiler
wind profile
wind profiling radar
Troposphere
对流层
tropopause
对流层顶
Stratosphere
平流层
stratopause
平流层顶
Mesosphere
中间层
mesopause
中间层顶
Thermosphere
热成层
thermopause
热成层顶
Exosphere
外逸层
对流层
平流层
对流旺盛近地面,
纬度不同厚度变;
高度增来温度减,
只因热源是地面;
天气复杂且多变,
风云雨雪较常见
气温初稳后升热
只因层中臭氧多
水平流动天气好
高空飞行很适合
上冷下热
高空对流
电
离
层
高层大气
电离层能反射
无线电波,对
无线电通讯有
重要作用
中间层
热成层
lapse
递减
lapse rate
递减率
boundary
边界
Polar
极地的
tropics
热带
Latitude
纬度
atmospheric
大气的
Inversion
逆转,逆温
iso
thermal
等温的
Ultraviolet (UV)
紫外线
ozone
臭氧
Interplanetary
星际的
interaction
相互作用
Inter-
相互之间
Friction
摩擦
Eddy-viscosity
涡度粘滞性
Instability
不稳定性
stability
稳定性;
unstable
adj.
不稳定的
in+…
否定 (构词法)
inaccurate
不精确,
invisible
不可见,
incompressible
不可压缩
independent
独立;
inhomogeneous
不均匀;
informal
非正式
Parameter
参数
Superadiabatic
超绝热的
adiabatic
绝热的
Super+..
超
(构词法)
Supermarket
超市
superman
超人
supercell
超级单体
Aerosol
气溶胶
Photosynthetic
光合的 ,
photosynthesis
光合作用
Equatorial
赤道的
equator
赤道
Global
全球的
(regional
区域的)
P1:
Like a fish in the ocean, man is
confined
to a very shallow layer of atmosphere.
The gaseous envelope of the Earth is physically
inhomogeneous
in both the vertical and horizontal directions,
although the horizontal inhomogeneity is much less
marked
than the vertical inhomogeneity.
P2:
Various criteria have been devised for
dividing
the atmosphere
into
layers. This division can
be based on
the nature of the vertical temperature profile,
on
the gaseous composition of the air at different altitudes, and
the effect
of the atmosphere
on
aircraft at different altitudes, etc. The division
based on the variation of the air temperature with altitude
is used most commonly in the meteorological literature.
How to divide the atmosphere into layers? Which criterion is most commonly used for layer’s division?
P3:
According to a publication of the aerological commission of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1961
,
the Earth’s atmosphere, is
divided
into
five main layers: the troposphere, the stratosphere, the mesosphere, the thermosphere and the exosphere. These layers are
bounded
by four thin transition regions: the tropopause, the stratopause, the mesopause, the thermopause .
troposphere
stratosphere,
mesosphere
thermosphere
exosphere
P4:
The troposphere is the lower layer of the atmosphere
between
the Earth’s surface
and
the tropopause. The temperature drops
with increasing height
in the troposphere,
at a mean rate of
6.5
°
C per kilometer (lapse rate). The upper boundary of the troposphere lies at a height of approximately 8 to 12 km in the polar and middle latitudes
and
16 to 18 km in the tropics. In the polar and middle latitudes the troposphere contains about 75% of the total mass of atmospheric air, while in the tropics it contains about 90%. The tropopause is an intermediate layer
in which either a temperature inversion or an isothermal temperature distribution is
observed
.
polar
Middle latitude
tropics
Earth’s surface
8km
12km
16-18km
75%
90%
tropopause
Temp
.
height
P5:
The stratosphere is the atmospheric layer
above the troposphere
. In the stratosphere the temperature
either
increases with height
or
remains nearly constant. In the lower part of the stratosphere (up to approximately 20 km above the Earth’s surface) the temperature is practically constant (about
-
56
°
C). While
further up
the temperature increases with altitude
at a rate of
about 1
°
C/km at heights of 20 to 30 km
and
about 2.8
°
C/km at altitudes from 32 to 47 km.
Under the standard conditions
the temperature
at the 47 km level
is normally -2.5
°
C.
P5:
This increase in temperature with height
is due to
the
absorption
of UV solar radiation
by
ozone molecules.
It should be noted that
about 99% of the total mass of atmospheric air is concentrated in the troposphere and stratosphere, which extend up to an altitude of 30 or 35 km. The stratopause is an intermediate layer between the stratosphere and the mesosphere (in the altitude region from 47 to 52 km ),
in which the temperature remains constant at about 0
°
C
.
-2.5℃
0 ℃
47-52km
32 to 47 km
20 to 30 km
20 km
How the vertical lapse rate of temperature change with height?
Why the temperature increase with height in stratosphere?
Earth’s surface
1℃/km
2.8℃/km
P6:
The mesosphere is the atmospheric layer
in which the temperature continuously decreases with height
at a rate of
about 2.8C/km up to about 71 km and at a rate of 2.0C/km from 71 to 85 km.
At heights of 85 to 95 km the temperature ranges from -85 to -90
°
C. The mesopause is an intermediate layer
between the mesosphere and the thermosphere
(the base of the temperature-inversion region in the thermosphere). Normally the mesopause has an altitude of 85 to 95 km and it
is characterized by
a constant temperature of about -86.5
°
C.
P7:
The thermosphere is the atmospheric layer
above the mesopause
. The temperature in this layer increases with increasing altitude,
reaching about 2000C at about
450km
,
the mean height
of the upper boundary of the thermosphere. The temperature increase in this layer is mainly caused by the absorption of UV solar radiation by oxygen molecules,
which dissociate
as a result of
this process.
P8:
The exosphere is the furthest out and the least studied part of the upper atmosphere. It is located above 450km altitude. The air density in the exosphere is
so
low
that
atoms and molecules can escape from it into interplanetary space.
How high is the mesosphere located above the Earth’s surface? How the temperature changes with height in the mesosphere ? How high is the temperature at the altitude of mesosphere?
P9:
Finally,
along with
the
above division
of the atmosphere, we will also
make use of
a division based on the extent of atmosphere with the Earth’s surface. According to this principle, the atmosphere is usually divided into a so-called boundary layer (sometimes also called the friction layer) and the free atmosphere. The atmospheric boundary layer(up to 1 or 1.5 km)
is influenced
considerably
by
the Earth’s surface and by eddy-viscosity forces. At the same time, we can neglect, as a first approximation, the influence of eddy-viscosity forces in the free atmosphere.
除
…
以外(还)
P10:
Of all the above atmospheric layers, only the troposphere(especially its boundary layer) is characterized by a marked instability of the vertical distribution of the meteorological parameters.
It is in this layer that
both temperature inversions and superadiabatic temperature variations with height are observed.
The Earth’s atmosphere is a mixture of gases and aerosols
nitrogen, oxygen, argon, neon--- permanent atmospheric components
water vapor, carbon dioxide, and ozone vary in quantity from place to place and from time to time
(1)~(10) Division of the atmospheric layers
(11)-(18) Composition of the atmosphere
P11:
The Earth’s atmosphere is a mixture of gases and aerosols,
the latter
being
the name given to a system
comprised of
small liquid and solid particles distributed in the air. Air is not a specific gas :rather, it is a mixture of many gases. Some of them, such as nitrogen, oxygen, argon, neon, and so on, may
be regarded as
permanent atmospheric components
that remain in fixed proportions to the total gas volume
. Other constituents such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, and ozone vary in quantity
from place to place
and
form time to time
.
微量
氧
20.95%
氩
0.93%
氮
78.09%
变动气体
固定气体
二氧化碳
臭氧
水汽
气溶胶粒子
…
(
极微量
)
P12:
The principal sources of nitrogen,
the most abundant constituent of air
, are decaying from agricultural debris, animal matter, and volcanic eruption.
On the other side of the ledger
, nitrogen is removed from the atmosphere by biological processes
involving plants and sea life
.
To a lesser extent
, lightning and high-temperature combustion processes
convert
nitrogen gas
to
nitrogen compounds
that are washed out of the atmosphere by rain or snow
. The destruction of nitrogen is in the atmospheres
in balance with
production.
is?
P13:
Oxygen, a gas
crucial to
life on Earth, has an average residence time in the atmosphere of about 3000 years. It is produced by vegetation that, in the photosynthetic growth process,
takes up
carbon dioxide and
releases
oxygen. It is removed from the atmosphere by humans and animals,
whose respiratory systems are just the reverse of those of the plant communities.
We inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. Oxygen dissolves in the lakes, rivers and oceans,
where it serves to maintain marine organisms.
It is also consumed in the process of decay of organic matter and in chemical reactions with many other substances. For example, the rusting of steel involves its oxidation.
P14:
From the human point of view, the scarce, highly variable gases
are of great importance
. The mass of water vapor, that is, H2O in a gaseous state, in the atmosphere is relatively small and is added to and removed from the atmosphere relatively fast.
As a result
,the average residence time of water vapor is only 11 days. Water vapor is the source of rain and snow,
without which we could not survive.
From common experiences
it is well known that
the water vapor content of air varies a great deal. In a desert region the concentration of water vapor can be
so
low
as to
represent only a tiny fraction of the air volume. At the other extreme, in
hot, moist air near sea level
, say over an equatorial ocean, water vapor may
account for
as much as perhaps 5 percent of the air volume.
P15:
There are large variations of atmospheric water vapor from place to place and from time to time,
but
the total quantity over the entire Earth is virtually constant. The same can not be said about carbon dioxide (CO2).The concentration of this sparse but important gas has been increasing for the last hundred years or so. Carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere
by
the decay of plant material and humus in the soil ,and
by
the burning of fossil fuels: coal, oil, and gas. The principal sinks of co2 are the oceans and plant life
that uses co2 in photosynthesis
.
P15:
In the middle 1980s,atmospheric chemists were still debating about
the effects
on atmospheric co2
of
burning, harvesting ,and clearing of forests/The oceans
take up
large amounts of co2,about half the amount released by fossil fuel combustion.
It is expected that
this fraction
will diminish with the passing decades whereas the total mass of co2 released will increase ,at least through the early part of the next century. During the 1980s atmospheric co2 was accumulating
at a rate of
about 1 part per million (ppm) of air per year, but it is expected to increase more rapidly in decades to come .In1983 it averaged about 340 ppm of air.
P16:
Ozone(O3),another important, highly variable gas, occurs mostly at upper altitudes ,bur
it is also found
in urban localities
having a great deal of industry and automotive traffic and a generous supply of sunshine.
In cities such as Los Angeles, ozone concentration may be more than 0.1ppm in extreme cases. Most atmospheric ozone concentration often exceed 1.0 ppm and may be
as large as
10 ppm.
P16:
They vary greatly with latitude, season ,time of day, and weather patterns. The high-latitude ozone layer is maintained by photochemical reactions. The ozone layer is important because, by absorbing UV radiation in the upper atmosphere, it reduces the amount
reaching the surface of the Earth
. Exposure to increased doses of ultraviolet rays would cause more severe sunburns and increase the risk of skin cancers. Biologists
indicate
that a substantial increase in UV radiation could also affect other components of the biosphere.
P17:
Certain
gages, if they exist in sufficiently high concentrations, can be toxic to people, animal and plant life. For example, when ozone occurs in high concentrations, it is toxic to biological organisms. This does not happen often, but in heavily polluted localities such as Los Angeles, ozone near the ground sometimes
is sufficiently abundant to
cause leaf damage to certain plant species. Very large quantities of potentially hazardous gases
are
introduced into
the atmosphere
as a result of
human activities. Air pollutants are
emitted
from furnaces, factories, refineries, and engines, particularly automobile engines.
P17:
All there things and others like them burn fossil fuels: coal, oil, gasoline, and kerosene. In the process
they emit gases and smoke particles
that may
spend
a great deal of time in the atmosphere
reacting
with other substances and
causing
the formation of toxic compounds.
P18:
The most widespread and potentially hazardous gaseous pollutants are carbon monoxide ,sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and hydrocarbons. The last of there compounds comes from vaporized gasoline and other petroleum products.
Draw a temperature profile of the Earth’s atmosphere
Make a table to list the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere
sources
destruction
Residence time
nitrogen
oxygen
H
2
O
CO
2
大气的结构
(
示意
图
)