英语听力：2013-04-10 恐龙之战之极限生存 Extreme Survivors—10
时间：2019-01-23 作者：英语课 分类：探索与发现2013年
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One could imagine that the conflict between Tyrannosaurs and Triceratops may have been one of the greatest combats that nature has ever had.
And this well-protected herbivore is everywhere. In fact in the Late Cretaceous, Triceratops outnumbered Tyrannosaurs ten to one. Their success is down to one reason.
A single thrust of the brow horn could penetrate 1 right into the cardiac chamber 2 or the lungs.
If you’re gonna put a meter-long horn into a chest cavity of a T-Rex, the chance of you doing some damage are pretty great.
Tyrannosaurus Rex is stabbed in the eye.
The key element for any predator 3 is to go in, make the kill, get what they need, and do it without injuring himself.
For a carnivorous predator, losing an eye could be fatal. Back at the nest, the chicks are guarded only by the male. Over him, a Quetzalcoatlus senses blood. On the ground, one parent is down and the other faces starvation. For a vulnerable baby T-Rex, the situation couldn’t get much worse.
Sauroposeidon is the tallest land animal of all time. At 17 meters high and 30 meters long, it would dwarf 4 any living creature today. But despite these mammoth 5 proportions, its brain is tiny, weighting just over 100 grams.
The brain size of Sauroposeidon would probably be about the size of a cheeseburger.
It probably had the smallest brain size to body size of any big animal that’s ever lived.
Big, dumb, brute 6.
A Sauroposeidon’s brain is a thousand times smaller than its body, just 1/8 of the brain capacity of a T-Rex. And its cerebrum, where strategic thinking takes place, is barely developed.
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.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所
- For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
- The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。
n.捕食其它动物的动物；捕食者
- The final part of this chapter was devoted to a brief summary of predator species.本章最后部分简要总结了食肉动物。
- Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard and a fearsome predator.科摩多龙是目前存在的最大蜥蜴，它是一种令人恐惧的捕食性动物。
n.矮子，侏儒，矮小的动植物；vt.使…矮小
- The dwarf's long arms were not proportional to his height.那侏儒的长臂与他的身高不成比例。
- The dwarf shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. 矮子耸耸肩膀，摇摇头。
n.长毛象；adj.长毛象似的，巨大的
- You can only undertake mammoth changes if the finances are there.资金到位的情况下方可进行重大变革。
- Building the new railroad will be a mammoth job.修建那条新铁路将是一项巨大工程。