英语听力：自然百科 神秘百慕大 bermuda triangle—4

 Pierce thinks this powerful charge can electrify¹ clouds in the lower atmosphere and create this supposed electronic fog.

As this additional energy comes into the storm activity, it ionizes the air wall and this generates, quote, the “electronic fog”. And as an airplane approaches, it can disrupt the instruments, cause navigation failure, and spin the compass.

Pierce takes a closer look at the weather on the day 'Flight 19' disappeared. He thinks that the conditions were perfect for an electronic fog and that's what sent their navigational equipment haywire.

 

It simply stated that this compass spin was a contributing cause for the demise² in the flight.

 

But it's a contentious³ idea that's rejected by mainstream⁴ science and other skeptics of the Triangle.

 

Science can't find this. There is no particular phenomenon called the electronic fog. The idea that some kind of electromagnetism is, is at work knocking out ships and planes, is just part of the pseudoscience of the Bermuda Triangle mystery mongers.

 

So can Pierce back up his theories? Today, he is flying with Bruce Gerranan to an area over Florida where he thinks he previously⁵ encountered the electronic fog.

 

You see here what’s going up would be telegraphs,but let’s hope that’s electronic fog. But that’s no point in that area, so really some activities going on right now.

 

Pierce wants to prove the existence of the electronic fog and determine the exact conditions that create it by collecting detailed⁶ electrical readings in the developing clouds. But then, the plane's electronics start to fail.

 

I think we have a little problem. I am getting a local degrading.

 

The plane's power supply drops dangerously low.

 

Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on,and what we are doing with, it’s,er, I’ve got a discharge for some reason.

 

Our plane is in trouble at the edge of the Bermuda Triangle.

 

Yeah, the electric problem. We have a weak discharge for some reason.

1 electrify   

v.使充电；使电气化；使触电；使震惊；使兴奋

参考例句：

• The country is now making effort to electrify and informationize manufacture.国家正在致力于制造业的电气化和信息化。
• He needs money to electrify his surface lines.他需要钱把他的地面线路电气化。

2 demise   

n.死亡；v.让渡，遗赠，转让

参考例句：

• He praised the union's aims but predicted its early demise.他赞扬协会的目标，但预期这一协会很快会消亡。
• The war brought about the industry's sudden demise.战争道致这个行业就这么突然垮了。

3 contentious   

adj.好辩的，善争吵的

参考例句：

• She was really not of the contentious fighting sort.她委实不是好吵好闹的人。
• Since then they have tended to steer clear of contentious issues.从那时起，他们总想方设法避开有争议的问题。

4 mainstream   

n.（思想或行为的）主流；adj.主流的

参考例句：

• Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
• Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。

5 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

6 detailed   

adj.详细的，详尽的，极注意细节的，完全的

参考例句：

• He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
• A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。