时间:2019-02-23 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


英语课

 Israeli scientists have succeeded in getting a 2,000-year-old date seed to sprout 1 and grow into a palm of a native type that had been extinct for hundreds of years.


That, they say, makes it the oldest known seed ever germinated 2.
The seed was found in the ancient fortress 3 of Masada, on a hilltop in the Judean desert by the Dead Sea where Jewish zealots committed mass suicide to avoid surrender to the Romans in the first century AD.
It is no surprise that project manager Sarah Sallon sounds excited. According to the first-century Roman author, zoologist 4 and botanist 5 Pliny the Elder, "huge" forests of date palms stretched in his time from the Sea of Galilee in what is now northern Israel to the Dead Sea in the south, she explains.
But after the Romans conquered the region in the first century AD and as a result of other, later invasions, the date palm forests, which she explains need careful and continuous cultivation 6, gradually died out.
The seeds were found at Masada during the 1963-65 excavations 7 of the fortress built in the first century BC.
To date, the oldest seed on record ever to have taken roots and grown into a plant was 1,300 years old and that of a lotus-found in a dried-up lake in China and cultivated at the University of California.

n.芽,萌芽;vt.使发芽,摘去芽;vi.长芽,抽条
  • When do deer first sprout horns?鹿在多大的时候开始长出角?
  • It takes about a week for the seeds to sprout.这些种子大约要一周后才会发芽。
v.(使)发芽( germinate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • First, the researchers germinated the seeds. 研究人员首先让种子发芽。 来自辞典例句
  • In spring they are germinated and grown for a year in beds. 春季里,他们在苗床发芽并生长一年。 来自辞典例句
n.堡垒,防御工事
  • They made an attempt on a fortress.他们试图夺取这一要塞。
  • The soldier scaled the wall of the fortress by turret.士兵通过塔车攀登上了要塞的城墙。
n.动物学家
  • Charles darwin was a famous zoologist.查尔斯达尔文是一位著名的动物学家。
  • The zoologist had spent a long time living with monkeys.这位动物学家与猴子一起生活了很长时间。
n.植物学家
  • The botanist introduced a new species of plant to the region.那位植物学家向该地区引入了一种新植物。
  • I had never talked with a botanist before,and I found him fascinating.我从没有接触过植物学那一类的学者,我觉得他说话极有吸引力。
n.耕作,培养,栽培(法),养成
  • The cultivation in good taste is our main objective.培养高雅情趣是我们的主要目标。
  • The land is not fertile enough to repay cultivation.这块土地不够肥沃,不值得耕种。
n.挖掘( excavation的名词复数 );开凿;开凿的洞穴(或山路等);(发掘出来的)古迹
  • The excavations are open to the public. 发掘现场对公众开放。
  • This year's excavations may reveal ancient artifacts. 今年的挖掘可能会发现史前古器物。 来自辞典例句
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