时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:背诵为王第一册


英语课

49 Who’s Clever?



 


  A university professor 1 made experiments with several kinds of animals. Hehoped to know which animal was the cleverest. He found out it was the monkey.

In one experiment the professor put a monkey in a room with several smallboxes. Some boxes were inside other boxes. One small box had some food insideit. The professor wanted to watch the monkey and find out how long it wouldtake the monkey to find the food.

The professor left the room. He waited a few minutes outside the door. Then hekneeled down and put his eye to the keyhole. What did he see? To his surprisehe found himself looking directly 3 into the eyes of the monkey. The monkey wason the other side of the door, looking at the professor through the keyhole.


professor 教授

experiment 实验

kneel 2 跪下

keyhole 锁眼

directly 直接地,径直地



谁更聪明?

一位大学教授用好几种动物做实验。他希望知道哪种动物最聪明。他发现最聪明的是猴子。

在一次实验中,教授把一只猴子和几个小盒子放在一个房间里。一些盒子套在另一些盒子里。一个小盒子里有食物。教授想观察猴子,看它需花多长时间才能找到食物。

教授离开房间,在门外等了几分钟,然后跪下来把一只眼睛对准锁眼。他看到了什么?他惊奇地发现,自己正好看到猴子的眼睛。猴子在门的另一面,正从锁眼里看教授呢.



1 professor
n.教授,公开表示信仰的人
  • He is famous as a professor.他作为教授享有盛名。
  • I happen to know that professor.我正好认识那位教授。
2 kneel
vi.跪,跪下,跪着
  • At church people kneel when they pray.人们在教堂祈祷时要下跪。
  • Then the two fighters kneel and pray to God.然后两个斗士跪下,向上帝祈祷。
3 directly
adv.直接地,径直地;马上,立即
  • I will telephone you directly I hear the news.我一听到消息,马上打电话给你。
  • She answered me very directly and openly.她非常坦率地、开门见山地答复了我。
学英语单词
acid size
acquitted of a charge
afong
annuloline
appositor
art collection
buhigas
butane air flame
carbohydrate gum
carriage contract
Cazula
coelectrons
communication and transportation expenses
confuted
cybermax
Decapepthl
degeneracy in atom
dictyokinesis (perroncito 1910)
Dinodus
dombeys
early-entry
enanaetiobiosis
endophenotype(lewis & john 1963)
environmental medium
excess-air ratio
failure review board
firing tray
folman
fuel chamber
gantry crane with hinged boom
GDIFS
god of the sea
group task
Hatherleigh
hysteresis form factor
i wonder how
ill-formedness
in one's birthday clothes
inching power
inclined letters
infeoffments
inhaler
intaglio printing or gravure printing
intrinsic reflex
key-bed
Kruskal statistic
lady crabs
Lagos State
lateral support system
lethal catatonia
linear voltage differential transducer
lump starch
mehos
memory hierarchies
military procurator
national archive
off-state current
oithona robusta
omnipotence of thought
oneriest
painful bruising syndrome
penetrant action
pentanolinitris
pituitary appendage
power plane
printer control key
prize-fight
pulse polaraulic selector
rag tearing machine
rate of return regulation
response time history
rise of the tide
rottenstones
run-over type turnout
Saffānīyah, Ra's as
seed corm
serpophite
side-fired boiler
silage after math
snoter
stomodea
stone-layings
storage charges
stream bit rate
strengthening and toughening
takifugo xanthopterus
tap and go
taper rail
tatooing needle
tetraethyl ethanetetracarboxylate
the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
three-quarter bed
thulium carbide
track slip
Unguru
uniform market
unprintability
V.O.
vigario
vortex atoms
wasting palsy
wavy edge blade