时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2008年


英语课

 



[00:00.51]12.Butterfly Insights


[00:04.00]A marvelous lesson appeared for me just now as I was exiting through the garage.


[00:10.54]As I opened the garage door, I startled a large moth 1, which, upon spreading its wings, 


[00:17.18]displayed a bright red "tail" hidden by the motley brown wings, more a "butterfly" than a moth.


[00:25.34]It flew immediately to its perceived escape, 


[00:29.48]the circle-topped window where it frantically 2 tried to exit thru the invisible wall of closed glass.


[00:36.45]I raised the third-car garage door in hopes of aiding its escape. 


[00:41.79]That caused it to fly higher and higher and become entangled 3 in a spider web. 


[00:47.77]Fearful that it would remain entangled in the web, 


[00:51.04]I selected a long-handled broom to assist him escaping the tangled 4 threads.


[00:56.27]At this, he returned to furiously pumping his wings and banging into the glass, 


[01:03.70]which was, in his perspective, the pathway of escape, but remained his cage.


[01:09.72]By simply turning his focus to one side, he would have easily exited his prison. 


[01:16.72]Rather, due to his intent on one direction, he remained confined, captive.




1 moth
n.蛾,蛀虫
  • A moth was fluttering round the lamp.有一只蛾子扑打着翅膀绕着灯飞。
  • The sweater is moth-eaten.毛衣让蛀虫咬坏了。
2 frantically
ad.发狂地, 发疯地
  • He dashed frantically across the road. 他疯狂地跑过马路。
  • She bid frantically for the old chair. 她发狂地喊出高价要买那把古老的椅子。
3 entangled
adj.卷入的;陷入的;被缠住的;缠在一起的v.使某人(某物/自己)缠绕,纠缠于(某物中),使某人(自己)陷入(困难或复杂的环境中)( entangle的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The bird had become entangled in the wire netting. 那只小鸟被铁丝网缠住了。
  • Some military observers fear the US could get entangled in another war. 一些军事观察家担心美国会卷入另一场战争。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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abkars
active resistive exercise
adaptive niche
adenosine deaminase
ahen employment
ahistorical bias
alkyl thioborate
anchorage zone
anthropophilic
anti-cycling procedure
antidumping unit
aristin
asenapine
autun
backpaddle
bare dressing
barge around
Bilbor
blamable
Bohemian olive
brephotrophic
car king
ceive
chamber conditions
classical absorption
complementary activity
couldna
crown rent demand note
crystal magnetic anisotropy energy
DHBV
dmuss
dovekies
draw over
duration of ebb
dyshema topoiesis
extruded wood chipboard
Federico
ferroelectric domain wall
fsr
genus Oriolus
gnathocephalon
Govezhda
grating incidence mount
Gräfenbuch
half-interval
hamadjoda
homotharicrine
inclusion conjunctivitis virus
inside the pale
Iwaizumi
laia
larry car
LCAR
Longchang
loss of hire
M-2,M2
MDMA
mononucleotides
MSHCA
multiple-hearth furnace
North Head
numeral index
optical sight servo amplifier
pachymeters
Parencephaly
peterburgs
photodetector array
pneumatic water barrel
polygonum orientale l.
positron factory
proprioceptive sense
Pterostyrax corymbosus
pyrrolizine
queen olive
quercus coccineas
radiant panel
relative refractory phase
rizzuto
schlangen
sealing waxes
shield conductor
shop feedback
Silene gracilicaulis
sleepy distemper
soft entry
spiritualisttic
starrs
switchability
swoozie
the back of an envelope
three-a sanitary standard
tintinnopsis gracilis
to hawk
total cost of ownership
tweek
upshift
useful article
Vilallonga
vinylglycolic acid
Vitis fengqinensis
walk - in freezer
water pollution monitoring