时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(九)月


英语课

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 [Sports announcer:] “Hello and welcome to Sports Update. In NHL action: with two seconds left in OT, Penguins 1’ winger Jean Jejune 2 nailed a wrist shot from the point that sent the puck skidding 3 through the five-hole.”


 


Now, if you were a fan of the Pittsburgh Penguins, you’d be whooping 4 with delight. If you don’t like the Penguins, you might be shaking your head in dismay. If you don’t follow hockey, you probably have no idea what I’m talking about. That’s because immersing yourself in a sport actually makes your brain better at processing language—language that relates to that sport.


 


We all know that practice makes perfect, whether you’re polishing your slapshot or your vocabulary. But in the September 2nd issue of the Proceedings 5 of the National Academy of Sciences, psychologists show that playing hockey, or even listening to a broadcast, can enhance comprehension of words that describe ice-hockey action. In their study, fans and players who heard sentences that relate to the sport showed increased activity in brain regions associated with planning and performing physical actions. That extra activity may give them a jump on parsing 6 the lingo 7. Even if we’re talking about slipping one through the old five-hole—otherwise known as shooting the puck between the goalie’s legs.


 


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1 penguins
n.企鹅( penguin的名词复数 )
  • Why can penguins live in cold environment? 为什么企鹅能生活在寒冷的环境中? 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Whales, seals, penguins, and turtles have flippers. 鲸、海豹,企鹅和海龟均有鳍形肢。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
2 jejune
adj.枯燥无味的,贫瘠的
  • They were of great service in correcting my jejune generalizations.他们纠正了我不成熟的泛泛之论,帮了我大忙。
  • I detected a jejune air that had not inbed me before.我感到一种沉闷的空气,这种感觉是以前从来没有的。
3 skidding
n.曳出,集材v.(通常指车辆) 侧滑( skid的现在分词 );打滑;滑行;(住在)贫民区
  • All the wheels of the truck were tied up with iron chains to avoid skidding on the ice road. 大卡车的所有轮子上都捆上了铁链,以防止在结冰的路面上打滑。 来自《用法词典》
  • I saw the motorcycle skidding and its rider spilling in dust. 我看到摩托车打滑,骑车人跌落在地。 来自互联网
4 whooping
发嗬嗬声的,发咳声的
  • Whooping cough is very prevalent just now. 百日咳正在广泛流行。
  • Have you had your child vaccinated against whooping cough? 你给你的孩子打过百日咳疫苗了吗?
5 proceedings
n.进程,过程,议程;诉讼(程序);公报
  • He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
  • to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼
6 parsing
n.分[剖]析,分解v.从语法上描述或分析(词句等)( parse的现在分词 )
  • A parsing program, or parser, is also called a recognizer. 分析过程又称作识别程序。 来自辞典例句
  • This chapter describes a technique for parsing using the bottom-up method. 本章介绍一种使用自底向上方法的分析技术。 来自辞典例句
7 lingo
n.语言不知所云,外国话,隐语
  • If you live abroad it helps to know the local lingo.住在国外,学一点当地的语言自有好处。
  • Don't use all that technical lingo try and explain in plain English.别尽用那种专门术语,用普通的词语解释吧。
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assertion data base
auricularia delicata
autoracemization
beginning of morning twilight
bode well for
bordati
breathalyse
brusk
Calanthe aristulifera
camera mounting
caprate
checking light
chrysogonidium
Clausius-Mossotti-Debye equation
co-head
collodion baby
condenser vacuum
condictitious
current value
digit mode
disseminated granulomatous dermatophytosis
dorylaea flavicincta
enlargement mode
evaristo
gage finder
genus Dracula
Grundy County
hanisch
high iron
hot off the press
idealizes
ignore
Imperial Medical Academy
in the house
indicable
Kalkrhodochrosit
kick down
Lafiagi
laying-off
left turn lane
lightning-struck
lilium nobilissimum makino
load moment limiter
local fuel
logan berry
Mandab Strait
mesh opening
minimum capsizing moment
minuits
misreceive
missouri gourds
Nafl
nankang formation
over and under absorbed overhead
paleogeophysics
paloverdes
panto-
papula agria
photoheliographic
position and velocity computer
post-officer
prism spectrograph
puppyish
QFD
rack-and-pinion
radiation pressure power meter
rapid action brake servo
ready-printed accounts forms
Recombulin
refactoring
report at post
reworked units
riley's ldh virus
Russian tumbleweed
sawing efficiency
Scandicaine
screening doublet
serverless
single commodity standard
sinnerite
sphargids
steam cabinet
sthenolagnia
stockrooms
superlattice
synchronous operations
taconian
take a firm grip on oneself
tenon making
thermal response time of sensor
thodays
trangers
transactional psychology
transitable
trinucleosome
ungraded stream
universal gear testing machine
unsintered
viotti
windar
wishes you well
zoomorphosis