【轻松英文阅读】室内帐篷更保暖

 Here’s a great idea for keeping warm this winter from South Korea.

 

South Korea can get pretty cold in the winter months. With temperatures around -8 degrees outside, it can be very difficult to keep a room warm. This is especially true this year in South Korea. Six of the country’s 23 nuclear reactors¹ have been shut down recently. As a result, heating costs have soared and there have been several power blackouts as well.

 

But just in time, someone has come up with an ingenious idea for keeping warm while saving money. All over South Korea people have started using tents indoors. The idea is really catching² on. Tents are flying off the shelves. In fact, tent manufactures cannot make them fast enough to keep up with orders.

 

The indoor tents can make a big difference. Even though the room temperature is a chilly³ 18 degrees, inside a tent it is a warm 26 degrees. People are even putting them on top of their beds and sleeping in them. Some tent users claim that they have cut their heating costs in half using indoor tents.

 

What do you think? Are you ready to put up a tent at home?

1 reactors   

起反应的人( reactor的名词复数 )； 反应装置； 原子炉； 核反应堆

参考例句：

• The TMI nuclear facility has two reactors. 三哩岛核设施有两个反应堆。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• The earliest production reactors necessarily used normal uranium as fuel. 最早为生产用的反应堆，必须使用普通铀作为燃料。

2 catching   

adj.易传染的，有魅力的，迷人的，接住

参考例句：

• There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
• Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。

3 chilly   

adj.凉快的，寒冷的

参考例句：

• I feel chilly without a coat.我由于没有穿大衣而感到凉飕飕的。
• I grew chilly when the fire went out.炉火熄灭后，寒气逼人。