时间:2019-01-23 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2013年


英语课

 In a world of terrifying creatures, being small means facing danger at every turn. 


 
If you were a small animal, the late cretaceous would have been an awful time to be around. 
 
For a youngster 1, every day is a struggle to stay alive. Their only chance is to keep out of trouble and grow up fast. 
 
If you’re a Tyrannosaur, every mega herbivore in the environment wants to crush you. 
 
Dinosaurs 3 develop advanced tools to survive, astonishing on the outside and on the inside. And now 65 million years on, cutting-edge imaging technology will peel back skin, muscles and bones to reveal the secrets of nature’s greatest success story. 
 
The largest dinosaurs grow as tall as a 6-storey building, and weigh 50 tons or more. No land animal today even comes close. The jaws 4 of a T-Rex could leave a bite mark over a meter long, and its 30-centimeter teeth could penetrate 5 deep into flesh. But every dinosaur 2 no matter how big or powerful begins life very small. 
 
Oklahoma, 110 million years ago, a herd 6 of sauroposeidon dinosaurs are on the move.
 
We’re talking about an animal who’s probably 80 or 90 feet long, and about 40 feet of that was just neck, so when it stuck its neck straight up, it could probably reach about 6 feet up in the air. 
 
These leviathans are making a journey to nesting sites they’ve used for generations. And developing inside them are hundreds of eggs. They are the future of a species 7 that will be around for 15 million years, more than 75 times longer than humans have been on earth. Yet each egg is no larger than a cantaloupe melon.

n.儿童,少年,年轻人
  • I rode the youngster on my back.我让小孩骑在背上。
  • That youngster works with a will.这小伙子干活有股傻劲儿。
n.恐龙
  • Are you trying to tell me that David was attacked by a dinosaur?你是想要告诉我大卫被一支恐龙所攻击?
  • He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.他凝视著精确的恐龙缩小模型。
n.恐龙( dinosaur的名词复数 );守旧落伍的人,过时落后的东西
  • The brontosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. 雷龙是所有恐龙中最大的一种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.口部;嘴
  • The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。
  • The scored jaws of a vise help it bite the work. 台钳上有刻痕的虎钳牙帮助它紧咬住工件。
v.透(渗)入;刺入,刺穿;洞察,了解
  • Western ideas penetrate slowly through the East.西方观念逐渐传入东方。
  • The sunshine could not penetrate where the trees were thickest.阳光不能透入树木最浓密的地方。
n.兽群,牧群;vt.使集中,把…赶在一起
  • She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
  • He had no opinions of his own but simply follow the herd.他从无主见,只是人云亦云。
n.物种,种群
  • Are we the only thinking species in the whole of creation?我们是万物中惟一有思想的物种吗?
  • This species of bird now exists only in Africa.这种鸟现在只存在于非洲。
学英语单词
abatement of smoke and dust
active chart
adderwort
ante-supper
Aprigliano
arduin
arefying
arepas
ballastages
Berkner I.
bluejackings
bmg
bootcamps
but money
Chaplyzhnoye
chlormankalite
coastal toplap
cofferdams
cold bending test
community relations
complex coordinate
contextual facilitation
cookline
coprophilic
cosmic rays
crack mouth opening displacement
creeps by
crystallization rate
cutting solution
damping composite
diagonal branch
dioxadiene
dismantling device
dispersed air attack
double stem
drop inlet spillway
dry dock flood
e-token
electronic image storage
equilibrium thickness
extended hypergeometric function
falsobuntonia cucurbitacea
fetch bit
frontmatter
gas defence
genus Cortaderia
global script
greenfeld
Guy Fawkes Night
heat pump plant annual coefficient of performance
horizontal filter paper chromatography
Indian bow paralysis
inter-saccadic
Johne's bacillus
juwel
Knockaderry
kyanazing
mass-monger
Mayle
mirror-up device
model following control
nabis
national agreement
New Panamax
no load release
noise control
orysastrobin
payots
performance predication
Prepricing
public drive
ramsey prices
real bills doctrine
rocket engine plume
salix repenss
satellite galaxy
Saxifraga imparilis
settled production
shorts culottes
simulation of cognitive processes
single spring mechanical seal
Slavic race
small clothes
small size computer
spectral density tensor
spermatogonial cell
static training
Stenoseris leptantha
susuhunan
take place in
thaumarchaeota
thermohydrometric
time rate wage
tinctorious
universal amplifier
vagotonine
vinelli
volcanic table mountain
wedge-bar liner
Wernigerode
workey
zara (zadar)