时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(四)月


英语课

   If you've ever tried out a flirt 1 up at a party or a club or maybe a construction side, you'll know it can be tough making yourself heard above the din 2. One solution is to go home and text your love interest. But a more immediate 3 one, is to shout. And that is pretty much the approach of male grasshoppers 4 take when the roar of traffic treantens to drown out their mating calls. The results appear in the British ecological 5 Society Journal Funtional Ecology. Lots of animals use sounds to woo a potential partner. But what happens when an unnaturally 6 noise environment all but overwhelms such romantic intridies. To see how grasshoppers cope with vehicular clamor, researchers collect about 200 males half from the stripe along the highway. Then they showed the lads a female and recorded the results. It turns out that compare to males lives some place quiet, the roadside chripers selectively boosted the bass 7 notes in their love song, percisely the part that would have gotten lost during rush hour.



1 flirt
v.调情,挑逗,调戏;n.调情者,卖俏者
  • He used to flirt with every girl he met.过去他总是看到一个姑娘便跟她调情。
  • He watched the stranger flirt with his girlfriend and got fighting mad.看着那个陌生人和他女朋友调情,他都要抓狂了。
2 din
n.喧闹声,嘈杂声
  • The bustle and din gradually faded to silence as night advanced.随着夜越来越深,喧闹声逐渐沉寂。
  • They tried to make themselves heard over the din of the crowd.他们力图让自己的声音盖过人群的喧闹声。
3 immediate
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
4 grasshoppers
n.蚱蜢( grasshopper的名词复数 );蝗虫;蚂蚱;(孩子)矮小的
  • Grasshoppers die in fall. 蚱蜢在秋天死去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • There are usually a lot of grasshoppers in the rice fields. 稻田里通常有许多蚱蜢。 来自辞典例句
5 ecological
adj.生态的,生态学的
  • The region has been declared an ecological disaster zone.这个地区已经宣布为生态灾难区。
  • Each animal has its ecological niche.每种动物都有自己的生态位.
6 unnaturally
adv.违反习俗地;不自然地;勉强地;不近人情地
  • Her voice sounded unnaturally loud. 她的嗓音很响亮,但是有点反常。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Her eyes were unnaturally bright. 她的眼睛亮得不自然。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 bass
n.男低音(歌手);低音乐器;低音大提琴
  • He answered my question in a surprisingly deep bass.他用一种低得出奇的声音回答我的问题。
  • The bass was to give a concert in the park.那位男低音歌唱家将在公园中举行音乐会。
学英语单词
acoustic branch
adeps suillus
adoption posthumous
affirmative-action
albopapular form of epidemolysis bullosa
Alleghenian life zone
assume the mask of
AX-5
bearing gauge
Blairmore
broadside rolling
cable armour cutter
CD-R disc
cephalic shield
chamfer curve
charity-boy
cherkassy
copper insoluble
core lifter
counterround
crystalloblastic sequence
dajuan
daubney
dextran-dextrinase
doing-it-yourself
drawls
eminelntia trigemini
equilibrium neutron shape
fault secure circuit
ficino
finger-roots
fizgig
flash strobe
foreign operation
friederich
general warranty deed
glide mode
gugu drums (s. sudan)
gulags
haralampije
hidcotes
holy man
hydraulic tapping
hypeman
inclined-hole cut
input message queue
jelly marmarlad
junctura tibiofibularis
king-tower
knockerout
languishingly
lehmbrucks
Les Avirons
linear behavior
local first selector
manned space weapon attack
maress
masturbatic
maximally constraining test
mesol
Mesovarian
Miramare
munias
myroxylon japonica makino
natural gamma-ray
non-overlapping observation
null and void of no effect
number-eight
optical filtering technique
Orleanism
out-flanking
outer air circuit
palestine liberation fronts
parallel chords
photoelectric high speed recording pyrometer
planning budget
polychrome decoration
Prince Island
psychologic operations intelligence
samaria
San Martino-di-Lota
seawater corrosion behavior
second preferred stock
signiorships
spark frequency
specific damping of an instrument
state register
statute of monopolies
Systellomatophora
tempel-tuttle
Tibitol
tilt table
toloxis semitorta
transformer with tap changer
Triguéres
uncontrolled levitation
up chain
viscosity standard oil
vote over telephony
warp dressing
whitefriars
wrecking hose