时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:英语博客 A cup of English


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 It was field trip day last week for Robert who is in third grade. He was particularly excited because it wasn't going to be the ordinary kind of field trip that schools make, you know, to a park, or the fire station, or a bakery. It was to the town of Leavenworth which is about a half hours drive. Each year, among other celebrations, there is The Salmon 1 Festival. On the outskirts 2 of town, there is a salmon hatchery which opens its doors to the public. The salmon have returned from their long, long trip around the ocean, and have come back to spawn 3. It is an important part of the Northwest culture because the salmon are plentiful 4 here, and huge. Because the Salmon Festival has been held for many years, it has expanded substantially. Now there are different sections that teach about other wildlife, and even Native American Indian history and tradition. Well, after our short trip on the bus, we got off, and walked to the Raptor section of the Festival. We sat in the shade of a pine tree, and listened to an expert on birds of prey 5. She had a display of four stuffed birds: a golden ealge, a bald eagle, an ospray, and an eagle owl 6. Though they weren't alive, the creatures were very impressive. We learned all sorts of facts about them. There are only two types of eagles in North America. That really surprised me, because there are 48 species in total. The golden eagle is larger than the bald eagle, which, you may remember, is the symbol of the United States. Unlike many predatory animals, the females are larger than the males. The lady who spoke 7 to us really kept our attention. She had obviously spoken to children for many years, because she knew how to keep the flow of information fast and fun. At one point, she was talking about the wingspan of the birds. Two students held up a large banner that showed the 7ft wingspan of a bald eagle. One by one, children and adults stood with their backs to it, to see if their arm span was equivalent. Of course, nobody's was. Then she talked about the sound of wings, and how different shaped wings sound different as the bird flies. Eagles have feathers sticking out of the ends of their wings, so they make a swooshing noise. Owls 8, on the other hand are silent fliers; their wings are rounded and smooth, so they can sneak 9 up on their prey. The children were very impressed with the talk. I could hear some of them telling eachother their own stories of seeing birds of prey in our area. We had a few free minutes to walk around afterwards, and I was really pleasantly surprised to find a live display of birds of prey. A shy looking golden eagle was held by a bird trainer, and several other birds were on perches 10 observing the people as we observed them. The bald eagle stared with its well known piercing frown, and the osprey and owls just looked out with little expression; their minds must have been elsewhere, up in the clouds, I'm sure.


 
Related vocabulary: elsewhere, the outskirts, raptor, to sneak up on...
 
1. The newly released prisoner wasn't allowed to live in this town, so he had to go elsewhere.
 
2. The center of town is too busy for us, so we decided 11 to live on the outskirts.
 
3. The eagle owl is an impressive raptor that is strong enough to bring down a young deer.
 
4. The cat quietly watched the birds play, planning to sneak up on them and perhaps catch one.

n.鲑,大马哈鱼,橙红色的
  • We saw a salmon jumping in the waterfall there.我们看见一条大马哈鱼在那边瀑布中跳跃。
  • Do you have any fresh salmon in at the moment?现在有新鲜大马哈鱼卖吗?
n.郊外,郊区
  • Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
  • They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。
n.卵,产物,后代,结果;vt.产卵,种菌丝于,产生,造成;vi.产卵,大量生产
  • The fish were madly pushing their way upstream to spawn.鱼群为产卵而疯狂地向上游挤进。
  • These fish will lay spawn in about one month from now.这些鱼大约一个月内会产卵。
adj.富裕的,丰富的
  • Their family has a plentiful harvest this year.他们家今年又丰收了。
  • Rainfall is plentiful in the area.这个地区雨量充足。
n.被掠食者,牺牲者,掠食;v.捕食,掠夺,折磨
  • Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
  • The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。
n.猫头鹰,枭
  • Her new glasses make her look like an owl.她的新眼镜让她看上去像只猫头鹰。
  • I'm a night owl and seldom go to bed until after midnight.我睡得很晚,经常半夜后才睡觉。
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
n.猫头鹰( owl的名词复数 )
  • 'Clumsy fellows,'said I; 'they must still be drunk as owls.' “这些笨蛋,”我说,“他们大概还醉得像死猪一样。” 来自英汉文学 - 金银岛
  • The great majority of barn owls are reared in captivity. 大多数仓鸮都是笼养的。 来自辞典例句
vt.潜行(隐藏,填石缝);偷偷摸摸做;n.潜行;adj.暗中进行
  • He raised his spear and sneak forward.他提起长矛悄悄地前进。
  • I saw him sneak away from us.我看见他悄悄地从我们身边走开。
栖息处( perch的名词复数 ); 栖枝; 高处; 鲈鱼
  • Other protection can be obtained by providing wooden perches througout the orchards. 其它保护措施是可在种子园中到处设置木制的栖木。
  • The birds were hopping about on their perches and twittering. 鸟儿在栖木上跳来跳去,吱吱地叫着。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
学英语单词
adamant metal
adultier
advertising departments
after-school program
alkaline glaze
Alsterbro
american society of medical technology
annointing
armature air gap
Aschheim-Zondek reaction
avenue of infection
barberry families
bayrumtree
boiler storage
brenson
cathartid
Cauto, R.
choreutis ophiosema
closed cycle cryogenic refrigerator
Coachella
color of the trichomes
combined steam and gas turbine (cosag) machinery
critical-load
cyclical graded bedding
dagobert
dahm
deed-box
direct drive electric tool
disrupted seam
et alia
excision of osteochondroma
Existing Home Sales
first-order bench mark
freighthopping
full to
furfural resin adhesive
fusser
gait analysis system
heir by devise
hemichorea
hepatic cyst
hexosephosphoricesters
infra red (ir)
JDL,JDL
knuckle-bone
kprofilograph
kyphorachitic pelvis
letter transfer
lighter-aboard-ship
lottia tenuisculpta
lyricist
marry into money
merrigan
microtropis triflora merr. et freem.
mind boggler
nanophanerophyte
nasal tip profile
naval beach group
negatived
Nicholson, Jack
number of repetitions
of great eminence
oh my fuck
one generation household
Parima, R.
pellizzari
professional golves
punctura
push type slab kiln
putting together
pyramid (of) selling
pyridine disulfonic acid
rastello
Rathmullan
reverting value
Richardson extrapolation
semisimple associative algebra
service port
sewer-pipe
spectromicroscopical
steam drive
Stilwell Road
subgeniculate
subsurface stacking chart
sucked in
suckerfishes
sunninghill
surface manoeuvring
tactile meniscus
term appointment
Tioor, Pulau
triturating
tut work
ultra-rapid high pressure gauge
underwater kit
unpronouncable
uranium isopropoxide
weather lurch
window screens
wolveboon
wriggled
wristers