时间:2019-01-20 作者:英语课 分类:2014年Scientific American(四)月


英语课

A creature called the Atlantic razor clam 1 has a secret digging in wet sand should be slow and take a lot of effort, but a razor clam can borrow a centmeter per second and go half a kilometer using only about a double battery worthy 2 of energy, this talent intrigued 3 MIT researchers who thought that the robot of that clam would be practically uses, so they study the models they moves, they found that clam first contract their shells that action causes sight fall inward towards the animal, further shell contraction 4 draws water into the mechs about point the water heat as a fluid quick sand the drag on the borrowing clam is dramatically reduced and it starts to really move the process requires pen point timing 5 contraction of digging based on their findings the researchers built a medal mimic 6, its two hands contract and expand and a rog dig into the sand they believe that  energy efficiency of robot clam could anchor autonomous 7 under water vehicle search for mines or lay for water cables scientists discovered their efforts in the journal bioinspiration and bio mimecas rather than climbing up. 



n.蛤,蛤肉
  • Yup!I also like clam soup and sea cucumbers.对呀!我还喜欢蛤仔汤和海参。
  • The barnacle and the clam are two examples of filter feeders.藤壶和蛤类是滤过觅食者的两种例子。
adj.(of)值得的,配得上的;有价值的
  • I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
  • There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。
adj.好奇的,被迷住了的v.搞阴谋诡计(intrigue的过去式);激起…的兴趣或好奇心;“intrigue”的过去式和过去分词
  • You've really intrigued me—tell me more! 你说的真有意思—再给我讲一些吧!
  • He was intrigued by her story. 他被她的故事迷住了。
n.缩略词,缩写式,害病
  • The contraction of this muscle raises the lower arm.肌肉的收缩使前臂抬起。
  • The forces of expansion are balanced by forces of contraction.扩张力和收缩力相互平衡。
n.时间安排,时间选择
  • The timing of the meeting is not convenient.会议的时间安排不合适。
  • The timing of our statement is very opportune.我们发表声明选择的时机很恰当。
v.模仿,戏弄;n.模仿他人言行的人
  • A parrot can mimic a person's voice.鹦鹉能学人的声音。
  • He used to mimic speech peculiarities of another.他过去总是模仿别人讲话的特点。
adj.自治的;独立的
  • They proudly declared themselves part of a new autonomous province.他们自豪地宣布成为新自治省的一部分。
  • This is a matter that comes within the jurisdiction of the autonomous region.这件事是属于自治区权限以内的事务。
学英语单词
ace buddy
across-the-street
Administration of drugs
alerting services
anopheles (cellia) splendidus
barren sow
be done to the world
bondes
bookery
boron-filled ionization chamber
bovine brucellosis
bread slicer
Butt-carriage
Caldecott Medal
capital expenditure & current expenditure
carmo do paranaiba
catch my drift
centre position
chain rigidity
Chamaesium thalictrifolium
closed marginal geosyncline
colic veins
corectome
cyclononadiene
dethanolomine
Dipsocoroidea
DL-Xylose
dragged up
dramaction
Dryopteris goldiana
effect of deposits within the boiler
eurotium herbariorum
external conditions
featherpated
fistula in ano
formyl radical
friction-rolling hatchcover
ginger wine
gracelands
half tunnel
hypocitricuria
hysteriform
jeffry
kinetic height
L.F.D.
Langerhans islets
lead deposits
lipotrophic
lithonates
loading and unloading quality conformity rate
lope de vegas
low speed mill
malamoccoes
maritme radio navigation mobile station
Metchnikovellida
nehi
normal color photograph
organ genitalia
oversmite
Peddāpuram
pedestrian crossing devices
pitot log
pivotal fault
plowlands
plunging necklines
precompensated
quinin camphorate
Radar scan.
real-time agent
regular mesh point
residual sideband transmission system
retractor fiber
rhabdophane-(Ce)
saturation jamming
schallert
scythebill
self-starting
sequently
side-pull
signing-on
small screw torch
solhs
solid skirt piston
sour docks
special tool steel
spin-stretching
spring manometer
St-Mathurin
ST_sadness_weeping-and-crying
steery
stepgrandmothers
sulfathiazole ointment
surface equilibrium
taggert
that's life
trivia
twist propagation
undetachably
waveshaping
woodhen
YSAN
zinc hogbomite