英语听力文摘 English Digest 55、和鲨鱼同游
时间：2019-01-26 作者：英语课 分类：英语听力文摘 English Digest
In the immortal 1 words of Michael Corleone in The Godfather, Part II, "My father always taught me: keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." Perhaps no creature has taken this advice more literally 2 then the remora, also known as the sucker fish.
As the official ocean survival manual clearly states: "Upon spotting a shark, flee, unless you also happen to be a shark." Or a remora. When a shark approaches, not only does the remora not flee--it swims right up to the shark, finds a nice comfortable spot, and attaches itself with a suction cup located on the top of its head.
Why, you may be wondering, would any fish want to be so close to a predator 3? If remoras could talk, they would calmly explain something called commensalism--a relationship where one species benefits from proximity 4 to the other without harming or helping 5 the other species. In this case, remoras benefit from riding on sharks without doing the sharks any harm.
The remora benefits package is very attractive. First, as long as a remora is attached to a shark, who's going to give it any trouble? Next, sharks are very sloppy 6 eaters, often leaving plenty of delectable 7 morsels 8 floating around. While the shark is preoccupied 9 with the main course, the remora slips off, gobbles some scraps 10, and then reattaches until the next meal.
Remoras aren't picky. They'll also attach to whales, tuna, and rays, so long as there's a free meal involved. In any case, they've developed a survival technique that would make any Godfather proud.
- The wild cocoa tree is effectively immortal.野生可可树实际上是不会死的。
- The heroes of the people are immortal!人民英雄永垂不朽！
- He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
- Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。
- 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。
- Marriages in proximity of blood are forbidden by the law.法律规定禁止近亲结婚。
- Their house is in close proximity to ours.他们的房子很接近我们的。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- If you do such sloppy work again,I promise I'll fail you.要是下次作业你再马马虎虎，我话说在头里，可要给你打不及格了。
- Mother constantly picked at him for being sloppy.母亲不断地批评他懒散。
- What delectable food you cook!你做的食品真好吃！
- But today the delectable seafood is no longer available in abundance.但是今天这种可口的海味已不再大量存在。
- They are the most delicate morsels. 这些确是最好吃的部分。 来自辞典例句
- Foxes will scratch up grass to find tasty bug and beetle morsels. 狐狸会挖草地，寻找美味的虫子和甲壳虫。 来自互联网
- He was too preoccupied with his own thoughts to notice anything wrong. 他只顾想着心事，没注意到有什么不对。
- The question of going to the Mount Tai preoccupied his mind. 去游泰山的问题盘踞在他心头。 来自《简明英汉词典》