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
acid engine
aquatic fitness
assault course
batty riders
best order quantity
bluebull
breakthrough innovations
bydgoszczs
cameleon
Cavalla River
cicheling
clinical anthropology
complete state observability
console diisplay adapter
Di-lan
diamond dresser
diverticulum of small intestine
double slice
double track race
dry coke quenching auxiliaries
embarking
Euchinin
film hybrids
flat cell
foresignifies
georges bizets
give sb. the wall
gonadorelin
hackle guide
Hadean
haiducu
haystack hill
hexacosenediacid
hippopotamid
hyalopsora polypodii
hypoxanthines
illegitimacies
imagination images
inaccessible pore
information generation
INTACS
ion fluxes
ionizing radiation
iridicolorous
isogeometric
ladder polymer
Laguna de Santo Domingo
Ledran's suture
logarithmically normal distribution
Lugau
make no disguise of
mantegnas
matrikins
military tenure
mixed-flow impeller
motor-drive lathe
multiprocessor model
narceol
nightcare
no fire area
normalization of production
ormsbee
orphanotrophism
orthoscopicity
ozonometers
painteth
parsley seed oil
plagiopematite
program interrupt condition
property under construction
radiative feedback process
radices valerianae
radio-frequency head
radio-frequency system
range calibration
raw oil pump
reserve navigation light
Rochelle
rotating disc type
seasonal dieback
Sedaraupin
selenium-cell relay
shoggoth
shut-in casing pressure
siding of beam
skeezers
souma
spiny-lobster
spring characteristic
steering spindle
storm system
tephrosia
theatricalised
Thiocyanoacetate
thumbring
tressured
turkeytrot
universal stimulus display instrument
vibration programmer
Ward R.
where-determinate