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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abnormal exposure
altiplane
angle of tooth point
antilattices
apple grain aphid
automatic spark advance
birthday suit
briody
broideries
call provision
cash-and-carry store
coherent length
combination shot
cor villosum
Cremanthodium
daily service fresh water pump
Desdoxepin
diphenylmethane
downy rosemyrtle root
dual-field motor
European Commission of Human Rights
European night
Festus
flat function
fuel holddown spring
general right
genus fouquierias
gerss
Grancher's system
grate feed conveyor
height of contours
hordesmen
hosels
hossein
hydrocarbon products
hypercalciurias
Hypericum sampsonii
hypertext software
hypoxanthine-phosphoribosyl-transferase
in open audience
inc.com
insitu
intrafascicular
ionic distance
irreplaceably
isatis granules
kiwa mai (japan)
Laugh and the world laughs with you,weep and you weep alone.
lie in wait for
logagnosis
mail matter
make sb free of
many-valued disjunction
materies morbi
memorists
micro-polarimeter
mobilfunk
mudfish
musculus extensor digiti quinti proprius
myozide
natively
navigation season
non-crucible zone melting
non-file-structured lookup
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nonentitlement
nordoff
Novopetrovka
one-sided step junction
Palus Putredinis
pantiled roof
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Philpin
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pigshit
plate amalgamation
rami alveolaris superior medius
redmouth
reductive Lie algebra
Rhododendron faberi
rights to the pursuit of happiness
sandragon
scarlets
Shigella
simulants
speculative fiction
spiral idler
straw purchases
Systeme International
taxidermic
tetrodes
the Glorious Twelfth
the-slam
Thimbu Chu
tick past
treatment in the balance sheet
trophotropic system
undercutting of rates
vascular pedicle joint graft
wage-push inflation
water-level needle gauge
zongzi