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
学英语单词
adaptive instructional management
All Japan Seamen's Union
armoured cable
as fresh as a rose
auto-telephone
auxiliary operating rod
avinader
back lighting
benzyloxycarbonylchloride
bioelectromagnetism
biological effects of optical radiation
blue ribbon connector
boccaro ware
burdeninprocess
bus service quality
clane
Cobquecura
coherent-video signal
colforsin
colored discharge printing
current-noncurrent method
dihydropyrimidinases
draw redrawn type container
elks
Etarotene
farm discussion group
file status data item
footstall
force prices down
forward wave amplifier
fuel pit bridge
Gariel's pessary
generic flow control
girdler
gypsy table
hydrographic sextant
Ibn Qutaybah
ill-
index of fatigue
indraught
informal methods of combination
labial nerve
ladyland
Lemoine hexagons
ligyra shirakii
Luce Bay
Madais-kecil, Pulau
malaria typhoides
marqueterie
mass hallucination
microconidium
milk-sops
modulars
mucolytic
myeloblastome
myrica
nocturnal enuresis
norhyoscine
oddibe
optical axis
orthic solonetz
palmiet
peak firing temperature
plungeth
polyphasic
punitorily
push-pull track
pycnophyllus
red-dogging
regeneration block
rescindment
right inverse element
Rong, Koh
s-hook
sack braiding machine
Samizu
schults
self-similar solution
sense-antisense
sentential form
set functions
single-container washing machine
sloping way
south american
special reagent
spessard
Squalodont
St-Pierre-lès-Elbeuf
star-delta switching starter
strike expense insurance
systemic acquired resistance
talk of
tea root
to accord with...
tooth (pl. teeth)
transhumeral
tunicae glabra
twistlock
underapplying
water vacuole
zills