英语听力：2013-05-29 完美捕食 Perfect Predators —12
时间：2019-01-23 作者：英语课 分类：探索与发现2013年
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Deinonychus instinctively 1 knows to go for this giant’s weak spot, its neck.
You’ve got the windpipe there. You’ve got the jugular 2 vein 3, which if opened up will mean that that Sauroposeidon is dead meat.
But death does not come quickly or pleasantly. For a pack of Deinonychus, a kill this big means a feast. And their skulls 4 are specially 5 designed for competitive eating. Its jaws 6 are narrow and lightly built. And its gums are equipped with 70 sharp, serrated teeth. They’re like walking piranhas, perfect at eviscerating 7 a victim.
If you look at the teeth carefully, they’re ridiculously small. They are very, very delicate. They’re not killing 8 weapons.
A single adolescent Sauroposeidon, an animal more than 10 times the size of its killer 9 can feed a pack of hungry Deinonychus for weeks, making the kill worth the effort and the risk.
Texas, 68 million years ago, here death comes not only from well-armed gargantuan 10 dinosaurs 11, sometime it swoops 12 down from the sky on the wings of a flying reptile 13, Quetzalcoatlus.
A Quetzalcoatlus could be kind of seen as a Cretaceous stealth bomber 14, air-to-ground weaponry at its finest.
They weren’t big, fragile kites. They were big, mean, terrifying bats from hell.
Quetzalcoatlus is arguably the largest, most sophisticated animal ever to fly. A wingspan of almost 12 meters holds aloft a body weighing 180 kilograms.
adv.本能地
- As he leaned towards her she instinctively recoiled. 他向她靠近，她本能地往后缩。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He knew instinctively where he would find her. 他本能地知道在哪儿能找到她。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.颈静脉
- He always goes for the jugular.他总是直奔要害而去。
- Bilateral internal jugular vein stenting is also a rare procedure.两侧内颈静脉支架置放术也是少见的技术。
n.血管，静脉；叶脉，纹理；情绪；vt.使成脉络
- The girl is not in the vein for singing today.那女孩今天没有心情唱歌。
- The doctor injects glucose into the patient's vein.医生把葡萄糖注射入病人的静脉。
颅骨( skull的名词复数 )； 脑袋； 脑子； 脑瓜
- One of the women's skulls found exceeds in capacity that of the average man of today. 现已发现的女性颅骨中，其中有一个的脑容量超过了今天的普通男子。
- We could make a whole plain white with skulls in the moonlight! 我们便能令月光下的平原变白，遍布白色的骷髅！
adv.特定地；特殊地；明确地
- They are specially packaged so that they stack easily.它们经过特别包装以便于堆放。
- The machine was designed specially for demolishing old buildings.这种机器是专为拆毁旧楼房而设计的。
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.切除…的内脏( eviscerate的现在分词 )
- Dark also end up eviscerating Marauders in a ruthless fashion. 黑暗圣堂无情的把掠夺者切成几块。 来自互联网
n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者
- Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
- The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
adj.巨大的，庞大的
- My gargantuan,pristine machine was good for writing papers and playing solitaire,and that was all.我那庞大的、早期的计算机只适合写文章和玩纸牌游戏，就这些。
- Right away,I realized this was a mistake of gargantuan proportions.我立刻意识到这是一个巨大的错误。
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》
猛扑，突然下降( swoop的名词复数 )
- He fixes his eyes on the greyish spine of the old wolf as he swoops down. 他两眼死死盯住老狼灰黑的脊背。 来自汉英文学 - 现代散文
- An owl swoops from the ridge top, noiseless but as flame. 蓦地，山脊上一只夜枭飞扑直下，悄无声响而赫然如一道火光。
n.爬行动物；两栖动物
- The frog is not a true reptile.青蛙并非真正的爬行动物。
- So you should not be surprised to see someone keep a reptile as a pet.所以，你不必惊奇有人养了一只爬行动物作为宠物。