时间:2019-01-23 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2013年


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 …19 meters tall and almost 30 meters long. Its neck alone is 4 stories long, a single vertebra almost as tall as a grown man. And a single thighbone weighs over half a ton. 


 
They seem to break all of the rules. There’s nothing like them around today. 
 
Containing over 72 million calories of fresh meat, you’d think Sauroposeidon would be the jackpot for a bloodthirsty carnivore. 
 
They don’t have horns. They don’t have armor. Really, the only antipredator defense 1 they have is sheer size.
 
And size does matter. When a Goliath like this is fully 2 grown, even the most vicious predators 3 keep their distance, even the most ferocious 4 raptor of the Cretaceous—Deinonychus. At 90 kilos, this raptor pales in comparison to its 50-ton prey 5
 
If we’re talking about a single adult Deinonychus and a single adult Sauroposeidon, the story would go something like this. “Hi! I’m a Deinonychus.” “I’m a Sauroposeidon.” Kuh!
 
But for a Sauroposeidon, reaching full size can take years. To make things worse, fossil evidence shows that juveniles 6 live alone, separated from the herd 7 until they reach at least a third of their adult weight. That means for nearly a decade, they wander the forest alone. And that forest is crawling with Deinonychus.
 
Intelligent and well-armed, they hunt on their own or sometimes in packs, they run with a top speed of 65 kilometers per hour.
 
These raptors can take on a youngster. For a young Sauroposeidon, there’s just one solution—get big quickly. And that’s gonna take a lot of…
 

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。
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
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》
adj.凶猛的,残暴的,极度的,十分强烈的
  • The ferocious winds seemed about to tear the ship to pieces.狂风仿佛要把船撕成碎片似的。
  • The ferocious panther is chasing a rabbit.那只凶猛的豹子正追赶一只兔子。
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。
n.青少年( juvenile的名词复数 );扮演少年角色的演员;未成年人
  • Do you think that punishment for violent crimes should be the same for juveniles and adults? 你对暴力犯罪的惩罚对于青少年和成人应一样吗? 来自生活英语口语25天快训
  • Juveniles Should we not exactly in need of such strength and conviction? 少年的我们难道不正是需要这种力量和信念吗? 来自互联网
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。
学英语单词
accid
act of terrorism
adhesive repair
adnexal adenocarcinoma
Allium petraeum
applicative order reduction
attending surgeon
authentication agent
backward error analysis
bearing pressure bolt
brown pea
butter-boxes
Cagosoan Pt.
cation exchange chromatography
chromatographic cabinet
Chrysippan
clofoctol
closed in spaces
coefficient of kinematic viscosity
colt-staff
compensator level
consecuitive position
cortaderia argentea stapf
coupler head
cul tural lag
cylindrical combustion chamber
deep-pit cage house
dhaniram
disinfector
dog-walking
dual-processor system
dynamo magneto
effects-laden
EGA.SYS
gyratory-shear method
haggess
handling hourly output
honey gland
hydrocarbon resins
intercostal veins
intvs
iopanoic(acid)
Ischaemum goebelii
jalabiyahs
juxtapyloric
lagging strap
Lagotis glauca
lanolated
leaderstone
Lohrhaupten
long weight
main entrance signal
maquis(macchia)
martinello
meadow hay
mechanized press line
Meihō
micropubs
monstatic rcs
murids
naval gunfire liaison team
Oberhausen
Ogygian
oil exploration projects
orbital rocket
parameter type
pathological physiolgy
pay tribute to
pharosderosis
play down to someone
point critical graph
portas
primary link
quier
reception office
Refugio, I.
regio laryngica
resurgent vapors
Rose-Throated
rotoreflected beam
saccharified pig feed
Salix lasiopes
salvage charge
sarcodon scabrosus
satyrichthys reiffeli
scaphoids
schismatic
sea-floor spreading
searcher beetle
seckman
taxes in kind
telphers
temperature effect of rated output
thermal acclimation
townends
triple-fold disappearing stair
underground horizontal control survey
untemptible
uranium hydrogen oxalate
valspodar
ventilation volume
woodworking instrument