SSS 2012-06-08
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(六)月
英语课
This is Scientific Americans' Sixty-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata, got a minute?
Vampire 1 spiders, as the name suggests, like blood. And they feast on blood-filled mosquitoes to get it. But only female mosquitoes suck blood. So how do spiders hole in on the ladies?
To find out, researchers, well, took apart a bunch of mosquitoes. Then they mixed and matched body parts. They glued female heads onto male abdomens and male heads onto female bodies, some of which had blood-filled bellies 2. Then they let the spiders loose near these reassembled specimens 3, and watched to see which ones the spiders stalked.
As the researchers predicted, the spiders paid close attention to the abdomen, pouncing 4 on the Frankensquitos filled with blood. But the spiders also kept an eye ,or eight eyes, on the mosquitoes' heads. Males have lush, feathery *. The females aren't as so. So if the spiders couldn't see the belly 5 they went for female-headed mosquitoes, presumably for the better odds 6 of scoring blood. The researchs in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
Previous studies have shown that blood meals give vampire spiders a perfume that's irresistible 7 to the opposite sex. Now that's what I call bloodlust.
Thanks for the minute, for Scientific Americans' Sixty-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
n.吸血鬼
- It wasn't a wife waiting there for him but a blood sucking vampire!家里的不是个老婆，而是个吸人血的妖精！
- Children were afraid to go to sleep at night because of the many legends of vampire.由于听过许多有关吸血鬼的传说，孩子们晚上不敢去睡觉。
n.肚子( belly的名词复数 )；腹部；（物体的）圆形或凸起部份；腹部…形的
- They crawled along on their bellies. 他们匍匐前进。
- starving children with huge distended bellies 鼓着浮肿肚子的挨饿儿童
n.样品( specimen的名词复数 )；范例；（化验的）抽样；某种类型的人
- Astronauts have brought back specimens of rock from the moon. 宇航员从月球带回了岩石标本。
- The traveler brought back some specimens of the rocks from the mountains. 那位旅行者从山上带回了一些岩石标本。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.突然袭击( pounce的现在分词 )；猛扑；一眼看出；抓住机会（进行抨击）
- Detective Sun grinned and, pouncing on the gourd, smashed it against the wall. 孙侦探笑了，一把将瓦罐接过来，往墙上一碰。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
- We saw the tiger pouncing on the goat. 我们看见老虎向那只山羊扑过去。 来自互联网
n.肚子，腹部；(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分，膛
- The boss has a large belly.老板大腹便便。
- His eyes are bigger than his belly.他眼馋肚饱。
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？
adj.非常诱人的，无法拒绝的，无法抗拒的
- The wheel of history rolls forward with an irresistible force.历史车轮滚滚向前，势不可挡。
- She saw an irresistible skirt in the store window.她看见商店的橱窗里有一条叫人着迷的裙子。