时间:2019-01-20 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(三)月


英语课

   Unless you are a convention, speaking middle English is not going to impress a potential romantic partner in 2013. Similarly, male sparrows have to make sure their vocalization is up to date. Researchers analyze 1 three decades of recordings 2 of male sparrows. And birds change their tune 3 over the ears did better with the ladies. The researcher's in the journal animal behavior. While introductory notes of the sparrow's songs did better with the ladies, the middle and end part changed over time. In the 1980’s, songs concluded with longer, high-pitched trills. More recent songs contain serials 4 of clicks in the middle and short low-pitched trill at the end. Researchers found that the male sparrows that adopted the newer songs have higher rates of sexual reproduction. Because you don't want to be seen as behind the times.  Indeed, Ch~~ might have had his pick of the ladies in the 14th century. But few today can make heads or tails of his tales.



vt.分析,解析 (=analyse)
  • We should analyze the cause and effect of this event.我们应该分析这场事变的因果。
  • The teacher tried to analyze the cause of our failure.老师设法分析我们失败的原因。
n.记录( recording的名词复数 );录音;录像;唱片
  • a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
  • old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐
n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
n.连载小说,电视连续剧( serial的名词复数 )
  • The computer can alter the serials librarian and produce a bindery notice. 计算机可提醒管理连续出版物的馆员,并制作装订通知。 来自辞典例句
  • I realized I have started to like a few of their serials. 我意识到我已开始喜欢上了不少他们的连续剧。 来自互联网
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acceleration center
acknowledgment lever
alveolar saccules
Amalaric
anophelicide
antrosinusitis
balshem
Banair
Bazet
biaxial orientation
biovars
Borovlyanka
bromodeoxycytidine
camera blur
canute the greats
Capital Controls
catnache
cell for infrared absorption
chickcharnee
Chimaltenango, Dep.de
colter dip
depauoerate fauna
dinodon rufozonatum var formosana
Dolno Kamartsi
elm sawfly
ergotoxin
event-related potential
fine space
fish buying boat
fixed disk command
florican
footie, footy
geometric grade scale
gonadotrophin releasing hormone
Google URL shortener
grandinettis
heavy gas
hidden periodic components
holiday villages
impasting
internal standard ratio
isonicotinic anhydride
jamie
jorissens
Keen's sign
laissez
legally filing the award
liguorrhea
line frequency generator
list editor program
long_as
macwilliam
maximum likelihood principle
meedles
moob
movie-goer
multiple hole core
neocapitalism
nitrate of soda
nonattendant
octagon ingot area
oilfield chemistry
on-line remote microfiche reader
order loricatas
overflow land
overhead volume variance
patch management
percussion area
periodic operating
pin forceps
Platypodidae
prontour chart
propulsion branch
protohemin
pullis
Racine County
regime of matrimonial property by agreement
Reichert's substance
roaring on
roman ocher
rubber sheet lining
sharp cash
shooting ratio
skyed
staurikosaurus
strata cylindricum epidermidis
sub task
subtractive color printer
sun-glasses
t'iao sh?n wu
tasting menus
tear-duct
Thomas phosphate
three florets per spike
twin-plane boundary
unbound task set
uranium niobate
Vurnarskiy Rayon
waberi
with a stroke of the brush
xylols
zipf's rank-size rule