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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ACST
active device
all-ways fuze
Allens rule
appellativeness
Aristophanes of Byzantium
asariland
auciliary guide meridian
bandinis
bare wind
beginn
beyard
biliation
bluish red
bounded degree
Burine
c.torres
Cairenes
Calciosarmarskite
can do
canans
cloud-cover
crunchvid
data management service
dental receptionist
der
destructional terrace
differential subring
direct arc heating
Dirichlet box principle
display allowance
do an experiment upon
ecological triangle
entodon sullivantii versicolor
equiasymptotical
Eshkanān
explicit loss
familiarisation
fee-splitter
finger spacing
finite moving source
flat-bed truck
fluid-inclusion analysis system
formation core plug
full steam
genus Kogia
high megohm meter
hoof-and-horn meal
Hoyo de Manzanares
intramolecular respiration
jarrard
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
kofa
lachrymal bones
land or capital intensive
ligameata popliteum arcuatum
Lithocarpus pachylepis
magchrome refractory
mania
meldola blue
mesoporphyrinogen
microbacterium flavum
musculus sphincter vesicae
National Broadcasting Company
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news bogus paper
NLS estimate
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overprocessing flavo(u)r
perifollicular zone
phosphotransferase
plate produced from coils
post men
potato leaf hopper
pragmatamnesia
principal earthquake
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restauranteering
ROM capacity
root line
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scooping machine
spina meatus
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steatorrhea
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São Marcos da Serra
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two-legged singlephase transformer
under military rule
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