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
amphidiploid hybrid
annealing color
asthenic form
asura tricolor
Bothriocephalus latus
branling
by-pass capacitor
Calaceite
Caltraghlea
Casas de los Pinos
Cedar Breaks National Monument
chronic yellow atrophy of liver
cleuch
coarse azimuth
coefficient of rolling friction
collimating cone
collision threat assessment system
colubriferous
complementary events
comunales
constitutive substance
convexifies
crm (count rate meter)
crude iron
crypto-anarchists
cyber espionage
direct production cost
double overhead wide belt sander
ductility transition
electric dipole radiation
embedded lump
error probability classification
etrange
extra classes
fibre needle
field intensity curve
flush system buffer
free speed
fungicidal finish
herborist
Herculanean
homeschoolers
i-tend
implicit schemes
inclinatio Pelvis
insertest
inside broker
isochratic
JRT
jungfraujoch
Khodyashevo
kommunalka
long-continued questioning
marcour
mars pigment
masseteric cutaneous ligament
minidomes
mirada
Nanam
night-vision
Norte, Pta.
nutrigenetics
octlet
orbicularity
outer orbital configuration
Oxford-Groupel
painting on a bamboo curtain
peace marcher
pellucistoma magnolioidea
platform shoe
point-device,point-devise
problemists
prolixness
promoteability
rattail radish
Reophax
riordon
roundspeople
Runsten
safety instrument
salt sedative
saluside
self-consequence
semibituminous coal
slender loriss
sliding poise
sodium penicillin K
special purpose radar set
sponge out
sporterized
sufficient light
suspect ... of
taglia
three-boom drift-jumbo
tituled
tri-pronged-type universal joint
two bin inventory system
up-side-down
vijayas
Whitekirk
won't kill you him
zounds