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
4-4-4-4s
a bit of crumpet
Abd el-Krim
Aclacinon
advective time scale
Aphrosalpingidea
aroles
authenticated calibration
Azilian
bedding in
blind readers
blocked-grid keying
buildabler
burdnous
Carex morrisonicola
cargo unmanifested
charge driven piston mechanism
cl. (centiliter)
cloprostenol
contrast threshold
creable
dead band regulator
deglin
direction finding receiver
dog-lead
ease of reduction of ore
Echinochloa utilis
eddying drag
electroreceptor
ficus aureas
flybase
full-scale crash test
gephyrane
give advice
glaum
granoplasm
Great Galactic Ghoul
halwa
hexadecimal numbers
high-magnesium calcite
horn button spring connect cap
host node
House of Fraser
icecream
Impatiens epilobioides
inside journal box
inspection certificate on damaged cargo
international telegraph consulative committee
Karaundi
Kennemerland
Latin Church
licensing pool
listeth
load shift register
lunch-counter
Machilus bombycina
mechanostabilities
mediate on
Mehrābān
monoplasmatic
monovalent heat pump heating system
NCCTM (new core component transfer machine)
ndro storage
non-voting share
normal effort
Nyon
operating empty weight (oew)
physiographical
Plasmodiophorea
pneumatic pick
portales
pull ... teeth
pump-fishing
purchase order scrap transaction
recatches
research laboratory
revolving round
rexite
right heart failure
robert andrews millikans
scientific communism
semi lozenge riveting
series gating technique
shogo
singular value decomposition SVD
skin-rolling
small sample bias
sound-energy
spiritual domain
spring busker sheller
stassite
strain rate field
supernomal
swinging conveyer
thorismund
unit magnification
upper wash slope
upspearing
walky-talky
weapon system stock control plan
weatherbie
where one lives