英语听力：自然百科 黄石公园的夏天 Yellowstone—10
时间：2019-01-05 作者：英语课 分类：自然百科2012年
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As soon as she feels it is safe, she settles to suckle and reassure 1 them.
Bison can shrug 2 off this sudden change in the weather; they are after all built to survive the Yellowstone winter.
But this tiny hummingbird 3 is more vulnerable. Flowers damaged by snow will die, and the nectar the hummingbird needs goes with them. Hummingbirds 4 must be resourceful to survive.
Bark wells dug by a sapsucker, a type of woodpecker, quickly fill with / sugar-rich sap as soon as the warm weather returns.
A little pilfering 5 provides this hummingbird with the energy it needs until the new flower buds open.
Summer moves quickly. By late June, the blizzards 6 of a few weeks before seem/ a distant memory.
At last the summer is well enough established for this hummingbird to take the plunge 7 and raise a brood.
v.使放心，使消除疑虑
- This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.这似乎使他放心一点，于是他更有信心地继续说了下去。
- The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe.航空公司尽力让乘客相信飞机是安全的。
v.耸肩(表示怀疑、冷漠、不知等)
- With a shrug,he went out of the room.他耸一下肩，走出了房间。
- I admire the way she is able to shrug off unfair criticism.我很佩服她能对错误的批评意见不予理会。
n.蜂鸟
- The hummingbird perches on a twig of the hawthorn.小蜂鸟栖在山楂树枝上。
- The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backward.蜂鸟是唯一能倒退向后飞的鸟。
n.蜂鸟( hummingbird的名词复数 )
- Hummingbirds have discovered that nectar and pollen are very nutritious. 蜂鸟发现花蜜和花粉是很有营养的。
- Why do hummingbirds and gorillas both have backbones? 为什么蜂鸟和大猩猩都有脊骨？
v.偷窃（小东西），小偷( pilfer的现在分词 )；偷窃（一般指小偷小摸）
- He was caught pilfering. 他行窃时被抓个正着。
- Pilfering has stopped entirely since they put Angus in charge of the stores. 自从他们让安格斯掌管商店以来，小偷小摸就杜绝了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
暴风雪( blizzard的名词复数 )； 暴风雪似的一阵，大量（或大批）
- Even in the summertime we might be struck by blizzards. 甚至在夏天，我们也可能受到暴风雪的袭击。
- Blizzards battered Britain for the third day. 大风雪袭击英国已进入第三天。