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
abnormal discount
abnormal steel
ace of diamonds
added value tax
automatically operated inlet valve
bootes
by-walk
calcie
calcineurins
carriage lace (narrow fabric)
cash sending
cathartical
code type
common-anode amplifier
convex head
darneth
dielectric motor
digital rights
displacement of spleen
drill doctor
Ducting.
edge cover
empty vehicle
endopleural ridge
equivalent orbital
fair-handed
genug
gone commando
hakurks
head-lamps
high polar region
horse-gear
hour angle hyperbola
hydrostatic amplitude of swell
incident reporting system
incorret
indigoid dye
injection port
instated
Isalo, Massif de l'
kazin
Kharstan, Gora
Kinnevik
ladder
Laktaši
land earth station
limber space
massive object model
methylnicotinate
Minas Chan.
mirror pair
motor run capacitor
multi-compartment cell
NatuineBendrofumethiaide
Newburgh's test
no-fly lists
non return flap
nonintensive
nothoserphus partitus
packed jury
pepper-pot
per accident
peripheral function translator
petting zoo
pixelation ratio
polo-stick
polygrapher
primal scream
prog-rock
quarquenet
regenerative process
regiones digitales (manus)
relaparotomy
remove chrome with bacteria
resections
Rhododendron maguanense
rip-and-read
scatteraway
scoresheets
seed enterprise'
set in stone
set order
Shonguy
single pneumonia
sliding sleeve valve
snortingly
star search
step sampling
stern plate
stomping
stratolab
Taconic revolution
tube failure
unpope
urban spaces
urethrostenotome
valente
verocytotoxin
visual achromatic system
Wefensleben
yellowfever