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
-dactylia
Al Jazeera
amino acid seasoning
amylodextrin
art of garden colors
ascerbating
atropurpureus
barked out
befan
blind edge
brassia verrucosas
brrring
Buddleja hastata
butt weld end
capitan arturo prat
catch sb.'s eye
cherub
cirrus spissatus
coffee service
controlled security
coticule
critick
damages in substitution
deflection of plate
effective byte location
epiphenomenons
epitendineum
equivalent veiling luminance
exogenous sampling maximum likelihood estimator
extension of continuous function
faith-sharings
field-sequential color television systems
float well
frenula praeputii clitoridis
geepound (slug)
giangrandes
governor gearing
habituation-dishabituation
haliplus sharpi
high-aperture lens
hobbit
hollow style
instance of court
internal sizing
invincibility
jadour
kamptozoa
Leipzig, Battle of
lived up
louver mo(u)lding
Lup'ya
make or meddle with
mass-murderers
mixed oxides
non-linear network
offensive realism
orchidotomy
osteogenic cells
palmspan
Parabramis
partner's drawing
pay a bill
placentas
plan of city
power breeder(reactor)
profundus
protection state
pseudomessiah
quinquethbercular
rattler
reconceptualizes
region definition block
resedimented rock
reversible cell potential
Rhyolite Is.
rotary load
sentencewise
shell-bursts
shut your face!
signature dynamics
spino-tectal tract
subsidy code
sugar technology
supracortical
swede type rape
symbol error
technology project
testiculated
thought-saver
tight money policies
towel rail
twin earthquake
underdeck tanks
untilled land
ventriculomastoid renal-spleic
vertical blanking interval
viewing time
viticula
voltage-generating transducer
vrykolakas
washing appliance
xenorhyncuss