时间:2019-01-30 作者:英语课 分类:60秒科学


英语课

Odd Spider Prefers Salad

In a study in the journal Current Biology, researchers report the discovery of an unusual spider, Bagheera kiplingi, that eschews 1 meat and chews acacia tips. Karen Hopkin reports

It’s said that real men don’t each quiche. And real spiders don’t eat salad. Or so everyone thought, until scientists discovered a jumping spider that seems to be a vegetarian 2. The report appears in the journal Current Biology.


Spiders are notorious hunters, luring 3 prey 4 into their sticky webs or ambushing 5 them from behind a leaf. But field researchers have found that a jumping spider called Bagheera kiplingi actually prefers the leaf—or in this case, the leaf-tips produced by the acacia shrub 6. These tasty tips are usually eaten by ants that live on the plant and protect it from hungry herbivores. Or at least try to.


The veggie-loving spiders, it seems, outwit the ants by making themselves scarce or by spinning silky droplines to give the ants the slip. They may also pull the old wolf-in-sheep’s clothing trick by cloaking themselves in the ants’ chemical scent 7, a possibility the scientists are trying to sniff 8 out.


For some of these spiders, acacia tips make up more than 90 percent of their diet. So, little Miss Muffet has nothing to fear from B. Kiplingi. Unless she’s sitting on an acacia bush. In which case here’s a tip: get a new tuffet, Muffet.


—Karen Hopkin

 



v.(尤指为道德或实际理由而)习惯性避开,回避( eschew的第三人称单数 )
  • A wise person eschews bad company. 聪明人远避恶友。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Ideology transcends limits, eschews restraints, and disdains tolerance or conciliation. 意识形态越出界限,避开遏制,蔑视宽容或和解。 来自辞典例句
n.素食者;adj.素食的
  • She got used gradually to the vegetarian diet.她逐渐习惯吃素食。
  • I didn't realize you were a vegetarian.我不知道你是个素食者。
吸引,引诱(lure的现在分词形式)
  • Cheese is very good for luring a mouse into a trap. 奶酪是引诱老鼠上钩的极好的东西。
  • Her training warned her of peril and of the wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring. 她的教养警告她:有危险,要出错儿,这是微妙、神秘而又诱人的。
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。
v.埋伏( ambush的现在分词 );埋伏着
  • The militia succeeded in ambushing the invading enemy soldiers. 民兵们成功地伏击了入侵的敌军。 来自互联网
n.灌木,灌木丛
  • There is a small evergreen shrub on the hillside.山腰上有一小块常绿灌木丛。
  • Moving a shrub is best done in early spring.移植灌木最好是在初春的时候。
n.气味,香味,香水,线索,嗅觉;v.嗅,发觉
  • The air was filled with the scent of lilac.空气中弥漫着丁香花的芬芳。
  • The flowers give off a heady scent at night.这些花晚上散发出醉人的芳香。
vi.嗅…味道;抽鼻涕;对嗤之以鼻,蔑视
  • The police used dogs to sniff out the criminals in their hiding - place.警察使用警犬查出了罪犯的藏身地点。
  • When Munchie meets a dog on the beach, they sniff each other for a while.当麦奇在海滩上碰到另一条狗的时候,他们会彼此嗅一会儿。
学英语单词
achrous
backup control data set
bataan
blunt-ended
boring-and-underreaming method
broken set
burnable poison assembly
cactus euphorbia
calculated on gross profit
car-owner
carrier detection
channel control unit
cob cutting knife
colourimetric relay
continuation of the journey
continued story
cooling water anti-rust oil
Denans' operation
Diasectral
DSDB
dubitated
ecolid
exoerythrocytic cycle of multiplication
formula for translation of axis
friscs
gakhuri
gauffered calender
genus Zinnia
hand operated valve (hydraulic)
hardstem
high-load resistivity
hodet
idling current
iliren
incident defect
izbica
K.I.S.S.
keep the field
kerasine
Kosaya Gora
length determination
list of radio signals
live scattered
logging calibration
Lomax
looking for kitty
low emissions vehicle
Ltg.
luminaire for emergency general lighting
Mampi
megaloclitoris
metatypical
microbial geochemistry
node point
nooos
notums
ophthalmoneuritis
oronasal membranes
overadvertise
owens corning
pair of faults
parent-infant
passion play
posh up (for)
protection grid of microphone
Ramachandra
ratio of husked rice
reference grating
reliable operation
render an account
residual swelling
ringing in the ears
roller chain with hollow pins
rotor copper loss
sector incidence of taxes
sinusoidalizes
sossing
speed detecting unit
stochastic quantity linear energy
sueos
Taroudannt
tempering coil heater
the tape
theatre of panic
Thermopsis mongolica
thresholding
touring
trapuntos
tree-frogs
trunnion mounting
tumi
Tyushevka
user area profile
vector canceller
vertically distributed agriculture
well-sharpened
whenso
whews
wing fuselage interference
worker's information system
xenotoxin
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