时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


英语课

 Do you think kids don't pay attention these days? There could be some scientific evidence of that, as Don and Ya?l discuss in this Moment of Science.   Don: Kids these days! They have no respect. They don't know the value of a dollar. They can't pay attention to anything for long.


Ya?l: Actually, that last one may be true.
D: You mean the others aren't?
Y: Well, the older generation always complains about kids. But researchers who study the effects of television actually have data to suggest that young people today don't pay attention in the way their parents do.
D: What's the connection to t.v.?
Y: Annie Lang and her colleagues at Indiana University have done a series of studies in which college-age people and middle-aged 1 people were shown a string of t.v. and movie clips 2. In one trial they showed images which changed at a fast rate -- over eleven shots every thirty seconds.
D: Sounds like MTV!
Y: Other trials had images that changed at slower rates -- five to six changes, or zero to three changes, every thirty seconds. People from all three groups were quizzed after watching the videos to see how much they could remember.
D: The results?
Y: The results differed depending on a couple of factors, such as how arousing 3 the images themselves were. But in general they found that young people have a much harder time than adults in paying attention to, and remembering, slower-moving material.
D: I knew it! Those lazy kids!
Y: It's not quite laziness. They try, but slow material is hard for them. And adults fared worse at remembering fast-moving material!
D: Gosh...do you think MTV teaches kids to have short attention spans 4?
Y: That's just speculation 5. But you gotta wonder!   

adj.中年的
  • I noticed two middle-aged passengers.我注意到两个中年乘客。
  • The new skin balm was welcome by middle-aged women.这种新护肤香膏受到了中年妇女的欢迎。
n.剪( clip的名词复数 );剪短;剪报;(塑料或金属的) 夹子v.用别针别在某物上,用夹子夹在某物上( clip的第三人称单数 );剪掉;缩短;给…剪毛(或发)
  • toe clips on a bicycle 自行车上的踏脚夹套
  • Use the crocodile clips to attach the cables to the battery. 用鳄鱼嘴夹把电缆接到蓄电池上。
v.引起( arouse的现在分词 );唤醒;激起性欲;使行动起来
  • They drove away slowly to avoid arousing suspicion. 他们缓缓驾车离去,以免引起怀疑。
  • They abused their power and bullied the people, thus arousing intense discontent among the masses. 他们仗势欺人,引起群众强烈的不满。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
跨度( span的名词复数 ); 持续时间; 一段时间; (五指张开时的)指距
  • A steel railway bridge spans the Yalu River. 鸭绿江上有一座钢铁大桥。
  • The wire door was a couple of hand-spans from his face. 铁笼门距他的脸只有一两个巴掌远。 来自英汉文学
n.思索,沉思;猜测;投机
  • Her mind is occupied with speculation.她的头脑忙于思考。
  • There is widespread speculation that he is going to resign.人们普遍推测他要辞职。
学英语单词
Adrenocorticosteroids
alternaria nelumbii (ellis et everhart)enlows et rand
anthysteric
Astroturfed
Ban Sangphok
Beer Lambert law
bent-kneest
berth declinity
Beta-Chlor
bisecting compass
blastochore
Boehmenism
bubbly-jock
burst on the wing
busard
by-pass(flow)
Chuzik
closerest
complementarians
cross-laying angle
data transmission testing set
define tape file command
definite time delay operation
devona
directors' interests
double thickiness
down-cut shears
dredging anchor
enneaploid
Enterprise contract management responsibility system
equiangular involution
exponential law of attenuation
fan runner
firing rule
flake powder
focusing lamp
gene silencing
Goryeo
group incentive system
Hemimonstrosity
Higgs-like
Holophane
home-from-home
hyperthyroid cardiopathy
inflammable film
jhaveri
Kolbingen
kopstein
Koulamoutou
Kubalakh
labour party
lamina profunda (fasci? temporalis)
loimographia
luborsky
lymphadenosis bernigna cutis
magnetisms
main instruction buffer
Martinmas summer
medis
meteorological record
modulation jamming
monoderm
multi-beacon
muota
myomonitor
Odelouca
opticomalacia
outrowing
parallel distributed processing model (pdp model)
payable at a definite time
peg method
perfect negative relation
photoelectric width meter
power cut-over relay
PR (progress report)
Primitive security
puzzledly
quantimeters
rack space
ranalian complexes
remainderings
rescowe
retroversion
Rhododendron lindleyi
Salam
selfdiffusion
shear-strength
ship hydrodynamics
single-beam spectrometer
social work statistics
special preferences
starch sulphate
str8
sweet corns
switching locomotive
tinea interdigitalis
tps (total productive system)
two-phase clock
two-year ice
vitelline sacs
Wiarton
within the age bracket of