Animal And Machine
时间：2019-01-07 作者：英语课 分类：英语背诵文选第一册
英语课
The body of an animal may well be compared with(1) some machine like a locomotive engine. Indeed, the animal body is a machine. It is a machine composed of(2) many parts, each part doing some particular kind of work for which a particular kind of structure fits it(3); and all the parts are dependent on each other and work together for the accomplishment 1 of the total business of the machine. The locomotive must be provided with fuel, such as coal or wood or other combustible 2 substance, the consumption of which furnishes the force or energy of the machine. The animal body must be provided with fuel, which is called food, which furnished similarly the energy of the animal. Oxygen must be provided for the combustion 3 of the fuel in the locomotive and of the food(4) in the body. The locomotive is composed of special parts: the fire box for the reception and combustion of fuel; the steam pipes for the carriage of steam; the wheels for locomotion 4; the smokestack for throwing off waste. The ani-mal body is similarly composed of parts: the alimentary canal for the reception and assimilation of food; the excretory organs for the throwing off of waste matter; the arteries 5 and veins 6 for the carriage oxygen and food-holding blood; the legs or wings for locomotion.
n.完成，成就，（pl.）造诣，技能
- The series of paintings is quite an accomplishment.这一系列的绘画真是了不起的成就。
- Money will be crucial to the accomplishment of our objectives.要实现我们的目标，钱是至关重要的。
a. 易燃的,可燃的; n. 易燃物,可燃物
- Don't smoke near combustible materials. 别在易燃的材料附近吸烟。
- We mustn't take combustible goods aboard. 我们不可带易燃品上车。
n.燃烧；氧化；骚动
- We might be tempted to think of combustion.我们也许会联想到氧化。
- The smoke formed by their combustion is negligible.由它燃烧所生成的烟是可忽略的。
n.运动，移动
- By land,air or sea,birds are masters of locomotion.无论是通过陆地，飞越空中还是穿过海洋，鸟应算是运动能手了。
- Food sources also elicit oriented locomotion and recognition behavior patterns in most insects.食物源也引诱大多数昆虫定向迁移和识别行为。
n.动脉( artery的名词复数 )；干线，要道
- Even grafting new blood vessels in place of the diseased coronary arteries has been tried. 甚至移植新血管代替不健康的冠状动脉的方法都已经试过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- This is the place where the three main arteries of West London traffic met. 这就是伦敦西部三条主要交通干线的交汇处。 来自《简明英汉词典》