时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(六)月


英语课

   Flawless pearls are among the most symmetrical spheres biological organs. But do they get so round? Turns out they turn. Pearls and mollusks such as oysters 2 create so-called pearls acs around intrusive 3 pieces of grit 4. The sac coat the yelten with the layer smooth biker also known as mother of pearls. The growing pearls rotate itself which allows the biker to deposit even they over its surface.By examining pearls under influences and scanning electronic microscope, researcher discovered that the surface actually has soft tooth texture 5. As the mollusk 1 moves, the pearls flaw so to the next tiny tooth. The works is published in the Journal Lanier. A pearl' motion influences its niker coverage 6 and not its finally shape. Depending on its surface pattern, it might turn in a single direction to create a drop or ring, or rotate more freely to form sphere, if defect prevents this motion, the final product will be shapeless. The resulting asymmetrical 7 pearls is doomed 8 to be booed.



1 mollusk
n.软体动物
  • I swear I have never seen such a mollusk with thorns all over its body.我敢发誓我从来没有见过这种全身长满棘刺的软体动物。
  • The colour varies with the mollusk and its environment.颜色因母体及其环境的不同而异。
2 oysters
牡蛎( oyster的名词复数 )
  • We don't have oysters tonight, but the crayfish are very good. 我们今晚没有牡蛎供应。但小龙虾是非常好。
  • She carried a piping hot grill of oysters and bacon. 她端出一盘滚烫的烤牡蛎和咸肉。
3 intrusive
adj.打搅的;侵扰的
  • The cameras were not an intrusive presence.那些摄像机的存在并不令人反感。
  • Staffs are courteous but never intrusive.员工谦恭有礼却从不让人感到唐突。
4 grit
n.沙粒,决心,勇气;v.下定决心,咬紧牙关
  • The soldiers showed that they had plenty of grit. 士兵们表现得很有勇气。
  • I've got some grit in my shoe.我的鞋子里弄进了一些砂子。
5 texture
n.(织物)质地;(材料)构造;结构;肌理
  • We could feel the smooth texture of silk.我们能感觉出丝绸的光滑质地。
  • Her skin has a fine texture.她的皮肤细腻。
6 coverage
n.报导,保险范围,保险额,范围,覆盖
  • There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
  • This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
7 asymmetrical
adj.不均匀的,不对称的
  • Most people's faces are asymmetrical.多数人的脸并不对称。
  • Folds may be gentle and symmetrical,or sharp and asymmetrical.褶皱可以是平缓而对称的,也可以是陡峭而非对称的。
8 doomed
命定的
  • The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。
  • A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。
学英语单词
achromatic aberration
Admiralty Is.
aphasiologist
applicationer
ascribable
associative dynamic action (effect)
astogeny
benifices
bidirectional parallel port
brush shoe
Cachimbo, Sa.do
cascading errors
characteristiccondition
chromium(iii) phosphate
code compare
coincidence mixer
compound factor training
compression chamber volume
congeneracy
corona discharges
corynanthine
cratonization
creatinekinase
days of turnover
devil dances
diagrammed
disseminated discoid lupus erythe-matosus
dolefulest
ecology of ectoparasitic insects
egeler
epte
eskies
face pumped laser
fixed tapping
fluviatile loam
focal plane filter
for breakfast
gastronomists
glafenine
guilors
head-in-the-sands
hen pen
Henrik Johan Ibsen
high permittivity ceramic
highway load standard
hot loading
hydrogen container
hydrogenosomes
hyper-reality
in-place inventory
interarea(cardinal area)
Juniperus procumbens
krise
kymelyn
ladies'-eardrops
liquid-suction heat exchanger
lisetite
mannerized
mesoileum
mispurpose
mud off
multi-microprocessor computer system
music to your ears
Narenga porphyrocoma
nonmonetary asset
nuclear power plant simulator
ocular adaptation
open cargo lighter
order aphyllophoraless
p-chlorobenzylchloride
palmiet
pan theism
patient account number
polite learning
preparatory nursery
pressure type flowmeter
Protegraft
protoplasmatic web
quillais bark
quintn
rademaker
real silk
repatriates
shark net
soda nitre (nitratine)
soil flow net
spatulate
speak without the book
sriperumbudurs
stays in
successive node
tertiary cell wall
Third Baron Rayleigh
tribe plant
under the seal of confidence
undissimulate
Vasocon
Vee-grooved
waggonload
width of two tax bands
wing cells
worshiped