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》
学英语单词
ad summam
agitation layer
air outlet opening
alutabs
Alvarolite
anti-poaching
antiputrescent
arithmetic microoperation
backband
baricity
barotor machine
be out of balance
beamdynamics
bikathon
blade tenon
brass wire mesh
Brushvale
Camurati-Engelmann
careening site
cell chart
cervical segment
classification principle
cogemas
countered and uncountered fields
crossed cylinders
Cryphaea
Cull-lumber
definingly
diarchy
dogu
ethyl orange
european silver firs
external pyramidal layer
fascia coracocleidopectoralis
Geranium dahuricum
goniocraniometrg
graff
grain web thickness
heating muff
histidine load test
hydrodemetallation catalyst
hyperbolic area coverage system
idiotypia
injection metamorphism
international Law of the Sea
kwamenas
Lidui
lithol fast yellow
living-learning
llanos
logoi
Lope de Vaga
LSTH
machine screw
maximum length of pile
mercury-203 BMHP
midship guy
Mita, Pta.de
moisture curve
momzer
Mornington Crescent
musculus cricopharyngeus
navigation bounty
net excessive bank of materials
NIRNS
nonsecular
optimistic prediction
over-involvement
paranox
permanent magistrate
preincline
Press-Ewing seismograph
psammophile
put in the programme
regicidation
rhodo complex compound
rootier
Saludrin
secondary fossil
self-making
shisham
shrink pack
signal degradation
sligtly soft
snaileries
sorting offices
Sottas
steatorrhoea
subdolichocephalic
summer momsoon
surface connected flaw
timber size
twrn
Ukwala
ultraviolet spectro-photometer
venritidine
weight off your mind
Wilhelm Grimm
wirepulling
wolfrap
working set policy
yttrium iodide