SSS 2008-07-29
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(七)月
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This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science, I’m Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute.
There are plenty of tales of animals finding some alcohol and getting tipsy. But those stories usually involve manmade beer or wine. There’s been no evidence of animals seeking out naturally fermented 1 fruit in the wild—until now. Researchers stumbled upon the first example of animals looking for a drink in the Malaysian rainforest. The scientists noticed a yeasty smell wafting 2 from a local palm. They saw a frothy substance, like the head on a mug of beer. It turns out the palm’s nectar has as much alcohol as some beer does. Then scientists followed two tiny mammals – the pentailed treeshrew slow loris. The critters dip into the nectar several times nightly. They regularly guzzle 3 the equivalent of about nine drinks a night—though they don’t display what we’d consider drunken behavior. And they act as the plant’s pollinator. The research appeared in the Proceedings 4 of the National Academy of Sciences. The pentailed treeshrew is a living version of an ancient mammal, a kind of relic 5 of the mammals from which both shrews and primates 6 – and eventually humans – branched off. So this discovery could lend some weight to the hypothesis that our love of the hard stuff has a deep evolutionary 7 history. I’ll toast to that.
Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American’s 60-Second Science, I’m Cynthia Graber.
- When wine is fermented, it gives off gas. 酒发酵时发出气泡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- His speeches fermented trouble among the workers. 他的演讲在工人中引起骚动。 来自辞典例句
- But that gentle fragrance was clearly wafting from the window. 但那股淡淡的香气，却分明是从母亲的窗户溢出的。 来自互联网
- The picture-like XueGuo, wafting dense flavor of Japan, gives us a kind of artistic enjoyment. 画一般的雪国，飘溢着浓郁的日本风情，给人以美的享受。 来自互联网
- Melissa had guzzled gin and tonics like they were lemonade.梅利莎像喝柠檬汽水一样大口地喝着加奎宁水的杜松子酒。
- Pigs guzzle their food.猪总是狼吞虎咽地吃东西。
- He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
- to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼
- This stone axe is a relic of ancient times.这石斧是古代的遗物。
- He found himself thinking of the man as a relic from the past.他把这个男人看成是过去时代的人物。
- Primates are alert, inquisitive animals. 灵长目动物是机灵、好奇的动物。
- Consciousness or cerebration has been said to have emerged in the evolution of higher primates. 据说意识或思考在较高级灵长类的进化中已出现。
- Life has its own evolutionary process.生命有其自身的进化过程。
- These are fascinating questions to be resolved by the evolutionary studies of plants.这些十分吸引人的问题将在研究植物进化过程中得以解决。