时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:60秒科学


英语课

Soccer penalty kickers wearing motion sensors 1 revealed that subtle body cues can give away which side of the net they're shooting for


Those of you following the World Cup know that at this stage there can be no more draws. Ties are broken during overtime 2 play, or in a penalty kick shootout in which a goalkeeper’s ability to anticipate the ball’s flight can mean the difference between victory and elimination 3. Now, scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic 4 Institute have discovered how a kicker’s body can betray whether he’s aiming left or right.


In a penalty shot, it’s kicker versus 5 goalkeeper. And with the shooter standing 6 just 12 yards from the goal, that ball can touch net in about half a second. That’s faster than a keeper can launch himself from the goal’s center to either post. Which means that a goalkeeper has to start moving before the kicker’s foot meets the ball. And he has to guess correctly which way to dive.


To figure out how good goalies might up their odds 7, scientists attached motion detectors 8 to college-level penalty kickers. And they found a handful of indicators 9 that reliably predict kick direction, such as the angle of the kicker’s hips 10 and how he plants his supporting foot.


Good goalies may be able to read those subtle cues. Meaning that they use their hands, and their heads

 



n.传感器,灵敏元件( sensor的名词复数 )
  • There were more than 2000 sensors here. 这里装有两千多个灵敏元件。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Significant changes have been noted where sensors were exposed to trichloride. 当传感器暴露在三氯化物中时,有很大变化。 来自辞典例句
adj.超时的,加班的;adv.加班地
  • They are working overtime to finish the work.为了完成任务他们正在加班加点地工作。
  • He was paid for the overtime he worked.他领到了加班费。
n.排除,消除,消灭
  • Their elimination from the competition was a great surprise.他们在比赛中遭到淘汰是个很大的意外。
  • I was eliminated from the 400 metres in the semi-finals.我在400米半决赛中被淘汰。
adj.各种工艺的,综合技术的;n.工艺(专科)学校;理工(专科)学校
  • She was trained as a teacher at Manchester Polytechnic.她在曼彻斯特工艺专科学校就读,准备毕业后做老师。
  • When he was 17,Einstein entered the Polytechnic Zurich,Switzerland,where he studied mathematics and physics.17岁时,爱因斯坦进入了瑞士苏黎士的专科学院,学习数学和物理学。
prep.以…为对手,对;与…相比之下
  • The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
  • The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
n.让步,机率,可能性,比率;胜败优劣之别
  • The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
  • Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗?
探测器( detector的名词复数 )
  • The report advocated that all buildings be fitted with smoke detectors. 报告主张所有的建筑物都应安装烟火探测器。
  • This is heady wine for experimenters using these neutrino detectors. 对于使用中微子探测器的实验工作者,这是令人兴奋的美酒。 来自英汉非文学 - 科技
(仪器上显示温度、压力、耗油量等的)指针( indicator的名词复数 ); 指示物; (车辆上的)转弯指示灯; 指示信号
  • The economic indicators are better than expected. 经济指标比预期的好。
  • It is still difficult to develop indicators for many concepts used in social science. 为社会科学领域的许多概念确立一个指标仍然很难。
abbr.high impact polystyrene 高冲击强度聚苯乙烯,耐冲性聚苯乙烯n.臀部( hip的名词复数 );[建筑学]屋脊;臀围(尺寸);臀部…的
  • She stood with her hands on her hips. 她双手叉腰站着。
  • They wiggled their hips to the sound of pop music. 他们随着流行音乐的声音摇晃着臀部。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
0514
A and P
A glass
acdas
asw sonar
band sound power level
barium tetrathionate
bectus
biofortified
bipolar representation
booya
c(a)esium
cast iron enamel
chance one's luck
cladophora ohkuboana holm.
coherent receiver
commeasured
complete rationing system
cooking apples
cruciferous vegetables
cured raisin
DHGG
differential compounding
dining-chair
direct-fired
direct-sum topological space
disdrainage test
docket
Dolle
draskovics
draughtsmanship
Eagleton
eldoradoes
enflurane
Epimedium shuichengense
exhaust flow
expenses belonging to the preceding fiscal year
external mix oil burner
extraprofessional
firmly believe
fructofuranan
gastight
gekko
grease smudge
holder of a mortgage
human thought
insaut
interdigital
Islāmnagar
isoscelar
kansi
kidney oil
larruped
life cycle management
logania
Megone
Melilotus officinalis Lamarck
merip
multiway stop control
Munf.
national extra fine
natrual gas industry
normalized eigenvector
nosocomephobia
oar
over-the-tops
parrot-jaw
Phreatia morii
polymatins
postmortem delivery
progressive ossifying myositis
Purrow
sampling from stationary stochastic process
securitywise
segmentation nuclei
self-adjoint matrix
self-optimizing communication
sleep with me
sleeping cars
solecurtid
spin cocoons
spin coupling
split dose
spoils of war
stationary prominence flare
stephanite (brittle silver ore)
string distance
subjective goodwill
tennislike
time-division telemetry
trade volume
turn the edge of
typicalities
undaria pinnitafida
variation of field intensity
weight per axle
well base tyre
wontest
wooliest
wordsmithery
wrench chain