时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2006年


英语课

To many parents, babies are a wonderful mystery. Who knows what lurks 1 in their tiny heads and what they are doing with their flailing 2 arms? Well, researchers now say that from the eyes of an infant, parents are just as mysterious and confusing. A study comparing the eye movements and attention spans 3 of a one-year-old baby to both adults and 6-month-olds finds that infants younger than a year can not predict what another person is trying to do. But by 12 months, infants are just as good as adults at guessing simple actions of those around them.

For example, if mummy picks up a favorite toy, young infants can't guess that she is about to hand it over even if mummy has given it to them a million times before. Even with familiar faces and situations, young babies can not really understand when people are trying to help them. Their brains simply don't have enough wiring yet to predict what is coming next. This knowledge may not solve all of a new parent's questions, but it may help them understand a little bit better why children do what they do.

With this Medical Minute, I'm Dr. Timothy Johnson.



1 lurks
n.潜在,潜伏;(lurk的复数形式)vi.潜伏,埋伏(lurk的第三人称单数形式)
  • Behind his cool exterior lurks a reckless and frustrated person. 在冷酷的外表背后,他是一个鲁莽又不得志的人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Good fortune lies within Bad, Bad fortune lurks within good. 福兮祸所倚,祸兮福所伏。 来自互联网
2 flailing
v.鞭打( flail的现在分词 );用连枷脱粒;(臂或腿)无法控制地乱动;扫雷坦克
  • He became moody and unreasonable, flailing out at Katherine at the slightest excuse. 他变得喜怒无常、不可理喻,为点鸡毛蒜皮的小事就殴打凯瑟琳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • His arms were flailing in all directions. 他的手臂胡乱挥舞着。 来自辞典例句
3 spans
跨度( span的名词复数 ); 持续时间; 一段时间; (五指张开时的)指距
  • A steel railway bridge spans the Yalu River. 鸭绿江上有一座钢铁大桥。
  • The wire door was a couple of hand-spans from his face. 铁笼门距他的脸只有一两个巴掌远。 来自英汉文学
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acceptable quality level test
accipiter cooperiis
Alpedriz
ampere-hour efficiency
analysis centre
anti-chain
attenuating partition
Auasbila
balders
barium hypochloride
big hat
bottom-blown oxygen converter
bulk vegetables
butterfly/Butterfly effect
cawthon
cetane index
chateau
complexity
corner racking
craig extraction
croyle
customs head office
database management system
differential absorption ratio
diffusion equation
discoriate
Driedorf
easier-to-understand
exa-siemens
extremely high speed oscilloscope
fast time scales
foundation pit well point drainage method
fracture height
galvanized corrugated steel
gamma quanta
horridus
hyoglossal membranes
incising machine
intimidation
intrinsic property
ivpp
jutelike
Kraft Foods Inc.
Krilium
late gate
lingual flange
Lopping-forest
magnesiotropic
magnetic-domain memory (domain-tip memory)
Melians
milliyet
miscellaneous incomes
Mitteleschenbach
mogul
motuoensis
national tax tribunal
network control processing
network diameter
no torturing the old and children
non-equality hybridization
non-mental
Notaspidea
Noville
optical plastic
order pseudomonadaless
outreal
parahybos sauteri
pati
perineal syndrome
phonoaesthetic
Plampang
potassium chromium oxalate
PSY-SOM
roll off frequency
s/390
Scandinavian lox
sedulene
self-test
selsyn-d.c. torque motor-amplifier assembler
seod
shit-load
siderochalcite (clinoclase)
slender sea lettuce
Smolensk Upland
Star Portal
subsizars
tangential ellipse
tectonicists
testicular degeneration
the heart wants what it wants
third-class conductor
tienne
traction return current circuits
trispaston
troaking
uniterm index
unpredictively
wagon seal
water pump seal
wet adiabatic lapse rate
wrines
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