慢速英语:A Chicken in Every Pot: Finding New Uses for Feathers

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go to waste浪费

例句：Don't let all this good food go to waste!
      别把这些好好的食物浪费掉!

2. But the container breaks down in the earth within one to five years.

break down分解

例句：The firemen broke down the wall in order to gain quick access to the building on fire.
      为了很快地进入着火的房子, 消防队员拆了那面墙。

      The plant breaks down very soon in the moist condations.
      在潮湿的环境下，植物分解的非常快。

3.The institute's research director, Mark Teffeau, says the flowerpot works well for vegetables and small flowering plants like geraniums and impatiens.

works well效果比较好。

与work有关的短语：

It works.表示某个方法奏效。

work out解决, 解答; 计算出

例句：This problem will not work out.
      这个问题解答不了。

产生结果; 发展

例句：The plan worked out badly.
      计划进行不顺利。

作出; 制订出

例句：It wasn't too long before we had worked out a plan acceptable to all.
      没多久我们就制订出一个大家都能接受的计划。

4.Walter Schmidt has been working to find uses for chicken feathers since the nineteen nineties.

年份的表示方法

1)世纪可以用定冠词加序数词加世纪century表示，也可以用定冠词加百位进数加's表示

the sixth（6th）century 公元六世纪

the eighteenth（18th）century 公元十八世纪

the 1900's 二十世纪

the 1600's 十七世纪

这里，用百位数整数表示的世纪比这一百位阿拉伯数字本身多一个世纪。

2)年代用定冠词及基数词表示的世纪加十位整数的复数形式构成

in the 1930's（in the thirties of the twentieth century或 in the nineteen thirties）

在二十世纪三十年代

in the 1860's（in the sixties of the 19th century或 in the eighteen sixties）

在十九世纪六十年代

In the 1870's when Marx was already in his fifties，he found it important to study the situation in Russia，so he began to learn Russian．

在十九世纪七十年代当马克思已经五十多岁时，他发现研究俄国的形势很重要，便开始学习俄语。

5.It makes no sense.

make no sense毫无意义

例句：The explanation made no sense.
      这解释莫名其妙。