[科学美国人60秒] SSS 2015-11-12
时间：2019-01-20 作者：英语课 分类：2015年Scientific American(十一)月
英语课
You have bees to think every time you drizzle 1 some honey into your tea.
And the human-honey bee relationships is long standing 2. of honey bees in ancient Egympt. Record has been found that stone age bee harvest.
But exactly when early farmers began to exploit bees has been unclear.
These famers exploited the bees for more than honey, researchers show also show they also exploit the bees wax for cosmetics 3, fuel, medicine and to perform rituals.
Bees wax contains complex facts that leave a recognizable residues 5 on pottery 6 and other archeological artifacts. And scientist have now used that bees wax residue 4 to analyze 7 what they determine to be the earliest known human-and-bee association dating back some nine thousand years. The researchers survey Europe, the and north Africa.
They found that bees wax or pottery vessels 8 from in or near modern-day turkey.They also discovered that the first evidence of bees wax at in north Africa. And the lack of wax residues in Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavian Peninsula let them take include that those locations were above what must have been more than limits for honey bees. The study is in the journal Nature.
The researcher say that the bees wax residues at these human occupied sites may be very beginning of may be at the with thousands of years of sweet results for us all.
v.下毛毛雨；n.毛毛雨，蒙蒙细雨
- The shower tailed off into a drizzle.阵雨越来越小，最后变成了毛毛雨。
- Yesterday the radio forecast drizzle,and today it is indeed raining.昨天预报有小雨，今天果然下起来了。
n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
n.化妆品
- We sell a wide range of cosmetics at a very reasonable price. 我们以公道的价格出售各种化妆品。
- Cosmetics do not always cover up the deficiencies of nature. 化妆品未能掩饰天生的缺陷。
n.残余，剩余，残渣
- Mary scraped the residue of food from the plates before putting them under water.玛丽在把盘子放入水之前先刮去上面的食物残渣。
- Pesticide persistence beyond the critical period for control leads to residue problems.农药一旦超过控制的临界期，就会导致残留问题。
n.剩余，余渣( residue的名词复数 )；剩余财产；剩数
- pesticide residues in fruit and vegetables 残留在水果和蔬菜中的杀虫剂
- All organic and metallic residues on the wafers must be removed. 片子上所有的有机和金属残留物均必须清除。 来自辞典例句
n.陶器，陶器场
- My sister likes to learn art pottery in her spare time.我妹妹喜欢在空余时间学习陶艺。
- The pottery was left to bake in the hot sun.陶器放在外面让炎热的太阳烘晒焙干。
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。