英语听力：2013-07-05 《恐龙的战争》3 顽强防御—9
时间：2019-01-23 作者：英语课 分类：探索与发现2013年
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The tip is designed not the split on impact. It absorbs the stress of all that raw power the hammer gives because it’s not solid bone. Instead, it’s honeycombed with soft tissue, marrow 1, blood and fact. Ankylosaurus combines steel-like protective plates with a powerful offensive weapon. The result—a creature with few rivals over more than 100 million years of evolution.
Ankylosaurus represents the end of the history of the armored dinosaurs 2, the ultimate in dinosaurian 3 tanks.
But some dinosaurs don’t rely on body armor and weapons for defense 4. They have an entirely 5 different strategy—grow bigger, much, much bigger.
Montana, America. It’s not called the Wild West for nothing. Hungry predators 6 are everywhere. In response, prey 7 developed an incredible array of defensive 8 strategies, strategies that don’t rely on intelligence, but on physical traits. Sauroposeidon is a gargantuan 9 beast, growing to 50 tons or more.
Sauroposeidon was one of the largest animals that ever lived on land.
If you’re gigantic, there are fewer and fewer predators that can attack you.
So getting big is the only game in town.
A fully 10 grown Sauroposeidon is 19 meters tall and almost 30 meters long.
n.骨髓；精华；活力
- It was so cold that he felt frozen to the marrow. 天气太冷了，他感到寒冷刺骨。
- He was tired to the marrow of his bones.他真是累得筋疲力尽了。
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》
adj.恐龙的，似恐龙的n.恐龙
- Those who having dinosaurian body is medium grain is in its local the muscle that aardwolf. 有着恐龙身躯的中粮在它的局部显出了土狼的肌肉。 来自互联网
n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地
- The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
- His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
n.食肉动物( predator的名词复数 )；奴役他人者（尤指在财务或性关系方面）
- birds and their earthbound predators 鸟和地面上捕食它们的动物
- The eyes of predators are highly sensitive to the slightest movement. 捕食性动物的眼睛能感觉到最细小的动静。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.被掠食者，牺牲者，掠食；v.捕食，掠夺，折磨
- Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
- The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。
adj.防御的；防卫的；防守的
- Their questions about the money put her on the defensive.他们问到钱的问题，使她警觉起来。
- The Government hastily organized defensive measures against the raids.政府急忙布置了防卫措施抵御空袭。
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。