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
AMOLIN
Anderson's operation
baby beds
bagging machine
balancing operational amplifier
balkening
bending sensor
betula utilis d. don
beyond syndication
blue air
botryose inflorescence
business tax rate
Callitris glauca
candidate verification
cape winter
carriage free
carry further
circummur'd
clausocalanus paululus
clitoes
coadjutor
coarse wire rope
coccophagus hawaiiensis
corporation attorney
Corydalis tenuipes
crystal control receiver
daudle
defamation of personality
disk cracking and bursting-off
Dovonex
dream up
EFL (error frequency limit)
ens necessarium
film over
fructuum perceptio
galuppi
Gambian
gastroduodenal
genipocyanin
gentlehanded
giemsas
gnostical
grimacers
hilloa
homogeneous culture
horizon flattening
houlberg
hybridas
interleaf
kampfs
labormonitor
Lederberg technique
Ligamentum collaterale radiale
liparis somai
lipoma of larynx
lithia emerald
lycomes
Mabukulu
meglumini iodipamidum
mice-eaten quartz
MLCA
multimorphisms
musculature function
music director
natural born subject
noncommercial advertising
nurse-hound
offal room
one way and another
organosulfonate
Palestinophilic
parking condo
photomechanical plate making
phrenic veins
pjoy
pteroyls
pyrazoly
Quiscalus
radar tracking center
radioisotope generator
raising of track
ratio change gear
rectifier net
restitch
Richard E Byrd
rough-grained
sapremias
separately cast test bar
service bureau
single substrate reaction
stereograticule
subcapitatum
supervisor processor
swings and round abouts
tapen
that's a fact
thiosulfate transsulfurase
unriddlings
wear and tear gage
whirling-bone
wittamers
you would not believe