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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andrija
area of facial nerve
aspiration-psychrometer
astragalus sinicus
autobiographie
bakken
batten clear
bewreath
blade clip
blew our mind
bohbala
breather valve
burtonport (ailt an chorrain)
carotene dioxygenase
casely-hayford
catch in
CCRT
Citroflex-2
code-share
copper deactivator
cornulites
cranking
CY CFS allowance
derrick installation
device test instruction
earthjustice
Eckebergite
endurer
engineered
enzensberger
figulus curvicornis
finite free module
GC-A
gel grain sugar
graphic kernel system
great bustards
harebells
have nothing to say for yourself
hectokilo-
heightened
helm wheel position indicator
iceboating
immunochemists
inside dial caliper gage
interface diaphram valve
interrogator-transmitter unit
ketone bodies
key factor
knotholes
lamellar corneal graft
lead flat
long-range vehicle
lord of the harvest
luffing jib
lumet
lutfisks
lymphomyelocyte
muliebral
N-allyl stearamide
noncommutative right context sensitive grammar
nondomestic origin
nwr
oleander fern
on the off-chance
on-again, off-again
one year transfer
outward bounder
overwalks
paggy
pigeon fancying
polonio
polonnaruva
process inks
propeller radius
quarantine hospital
read-out counter
realm of inevitability
relus
response to rudder force
Ritchie wedge
rodeheaver
rose attar
Sakellaridis
satellite orientation device
screening
sensing relay
single-frequency laser
skirt region
solid geology
Streptococcus anaerobius
sumetime
Teutonicising
thermic lesion
twyeling
Uig Bay
unregenerateness
valuationally
Vladimir-Aleksandrovskoye
ways
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