时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2009年


英语课

The San Francisco zoo has the largest collection of Magellanic penguins 2 this side of the Equator. More than 50 of them live here at the penguin 1 island. But the most famous were Harry 3 and Pepper. The two male penguins were a couple for more than 6 years. The zoo even gave them an egg to take care of. That egg hatched and the two raised the chick like any opposite sex couple would. They would preen 4 each other's feathers and lounge around in the burrow 5 they shared, but all of that changed last breeding season. The relationship that the two had shared, it seemed, was over. It was clear that Harry and Pepper had broken up when Harry moved out of the burrow that he shared with Pepper, and moved in next door with Linda. Linda was together for years with her mate, Fig 6, but Fig died, Linda was available and Harry switched sides. That’s Harry and Linda lounging together. Soon after Harry moved in, Linda laid two eggs, and the new power couple on Penguin Island were now a family. Pepper was alone and dealing 7 with his bachelor existence, but, was it really over between him and Harry? Was Harry really with Linda now? One afternoon Pepper got his answer.


 


“Unfortunately, Pepper, he was probably just kinda of exploring burrows 8 and checking out where his ex-mate had been, but we were seeing some aggression 9 from the pair towards him.”


 


Pepper got the message and now it seems that Harry and Linda are happy together, eating fish and laying on the rocks at Penguin Island. Meanwhile Pepper still lives next-door, and it seems to be adjusting fine. These days Pepper is just playing the field and swimming around.


 



1 penguin
n.企鹅
  • The penguin is a flightless bird.企鹅是一种不会飞的鸟。
  • He walked with an awkward gait like a penguin.他走路的步子难看得就像企鹅。
2 penguins
n.企鹅( penguin的名词复数 )
  • Why can penguins live in cold environment? 为什么企鹅能生活在寒冷的环境中? 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Whales, seals, penguins, and turtles have flippers. 鲸、海豹,企鹅和海龟均有鳍形肢。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3 harry
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
4 preen
v.(人)打扮修饰
  • 50% of men under 35 spend at least 20 minutes preening themselves every morning in the bathroom.50%的35岁以下男性每天早上至少花20分钟在盥洗室精心打扮。
  • Bill preened his beard.比尔精心修剪了他的胡须。
5 burrow
vt.挖掘(洞穴);钻进;vi.挖洞;翻寻;n.地洞
  • Earthworms burrow deep into the subsoil.蚯蚓深深地钻进底土。
  • The dog had chased a rabbit into its burrow.狗把兔子追进了洞穴。
6 fig
n.无花果(树)
  • The doctor finished the fig he had been eating and selected another.这位医生吃完了嘴里的无花果,又挑了一个。
  • You can't find a person who doesn't know fig in the United States.你找不到任何一个在美国的人不知道无花果的。
7 dealing
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
8 burrows
n.地洞( burrow的名词复数 )v.挖掘(洞穴),挖洞( burrow的第三人称单数 );翻寻
  • The intertidal beach unit contains some organism burrows. 潮间海滩单元含有一些生物潜穴。 来自辞典例句
  • A mole burrows its way through the ground. 鼹鼠会在地下钻洞前进。 来自辞典例句
9 aggression
n.进攻,侵略,侵犯,侵害
  • So long as we are firmly united, we need fear no aggression.只要我们紧密地团结,就不必惧怕外来侵略。
  • Her view is that aggression is part of human nature.她认为攻击性是人类本性的一部份。
学英语单词
accommodation and food service activities - isic
acer rubrums
arceate
Barany's sign
Bargain-purchase-price option
blow and vent system
Bortala
Bouvet Island
Busobuso
cellular content
chronic progressive acrocyanosis
classes of pollution
coppen
cyclical swing
dehydroretinal
del-operator
dietetic beverage
dwarf exotic species
EHP
eliana
exeception rate
family sepiidaes
fire distribution
flip-flop mechanism
flood-crest stage
foreign manufacture
free cantilever segmental concreting with suspended form-work
gamibasin
gang-plank
garage wine
general technical requirements
googlable
graphic science
hallan
heat-eliminating medium
hyalotrachyte
ill turn
imperfect consonant interval
inspectional
jet type dust collector
Join the club
Kaptenskog
Karaism
Krete
leading lady
license payment
liquid penetrant examination
m-phthalic acid
mactations
main fibers
man in the middle
metastructure
Mickleton
Mitsinjo
multibrand policy
musculi triceps surae
Nabnasset
nummen
off-location
ore wagon
oxidative breakdown product
Oxytropis globiflora
paraconiin
passive negativism
pedrails
pericardia
periphery blasting
petroleum locomotive
polyphalange
pulvis gummosus
reaudit
Richland Creek
sara teasdales
scutellation
sell us
sidereal hours
snipsnapsnorum
sobemoviral
space temperature variation
spring knockout
spring-form
statistical data analysis
subphylum cephalochordatas
supraspiracular line
sustainable use
swear white is white
task equivalence
taylerson
tchebychev's inequality
timber-faceds
trilateral crosssection
Triphysaria chinensis
Two-and-a-half International
two-to-one
two-unit system
unit-step
vile practice of bribery
vostro deposit
walk stick
woody plant
Zemlya Vil'cheka, Ostrov
zui