时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:2015年Scientific American(一)月


英语课

 It may not the lengdary match-up .. versus 1 octopus 2. But imagine this fight: sea dwelling 3 cone 4 snail 5 versus tine fish. Who wins? well, true, the fish can .. away but the snail have chemical weapons. So they use ..cocktail 6 of compounds and most of them are neural 7 toxins 8 and they just completed wipe out the preys 10 the physiology 11 right so the preys cannot respond any more. Helen .. the biologist of the University of Utah, she and her colleagues discovered the cone snail's venom 12 contains not only neural toxins but insulins too which the snail's prey 9 taken to their gills and that insulin overdose causes the fishes blood suger to plummet 13, deprive brain's of engery and inducing a coma 14.  And that is what happen when you give people the instant overdose. It can cause a coma and then death, depending on the amount of the insulin. They reported the finding in the jounral Proceding of the National Academy of Scienses. If all sound like the some ... munder mystery, well, it is. The paper actually cites the clause ...trail in the 1980s. .. injected wife with insulin and as a consequence of that, she went to insulin shock and end up in a .. coma. That was the prosecusion theory. But proving it to a jury would be a struggle. ..was ultimatly found not guilty. But in the evolutionary 15 struggle between snail and fish, it is now clear who has done it and how.      



1 versus
prep.以…为对手,对;与…相比之下
  • The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
  • The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。
2 octopus
n.章鱼
  • He experienced nausea after eating octopus.吃了章鱼后他感到恶心。
  • One octopus has eight tentacles.一条章鱼有八根触角。
3 dwelling
n.住宅,住所,寓所
  • Those two men are dwelling with us.那两个人跟我们住在一起。
  • He occupies a three-story dwelling place on the Park Street.他在派克街上有一幢3层楼的寓所。
4 cone
n.圆锥体,圆锥形东西,球果
  • Saw-dust piled up in a great cone.锯屑堆积如山。
  • The police have sectioned off part of the road with traffic cone.警察用锥形路标把部分路面分隔开来。
5 snail
n.蜗牛
  • Snail is a small plant-eating creature with a soft body.蜗牛是一种软体草食动物。
  • Time moved at a snail's pace before the holidays.放假前的时间过得很慢。
6 cocktail
n.鸡尾酒;餐前开胃小吃;混合物
  • We invited some foreign friends for a cocktail party.我们邀请了一些外国朋友参加鸡尾酒会。
  • At a cocktail party in Hollywood,I was introduced to Charlie Chaplin.在好莱坞的一次鸡尾酒会上,人家把我介绍给查理·卓别林。
7 neural
adj.神经的,神经系统的
  • The neural network can preferably solve the non- linear problem.利用神经网络建模可以较好地解决非线性问题。
  • The information transmission in neural system depends on neurotransmitters.信息传递的神经途径有赖于神经递质。
8 toxins
n.毒素( toxin的名词复数 )
  • The seas have been used as a receptacle for a range of industrial toxins. 海洋成了各种有毒工业废料的大容器。
  • Most toxins are naturally excreted from the body. 大部分毒素被自然排出体外。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 prey
n.被掠食者,牺牲者,掠食;v.捕食,掠夺,折磨
  • Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
  • The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。
10 preys
v.掠食( prey的第三人称单数 );掠食;折磨;(人)靠欺诈为生
  • His misfortune preys upon his mind. 他的不幸使她心中苦恼。 来自辞典例句
  • The owl preys on mice. 猫头鹰捕食老鼠。 来自辞典例句
11 physiology
n.生理学,生理机能
  • He bought a book about physiology.他买了一本生理学方面的书。
  • He was awarded the Nobel Prize for achievements in physiology.他因生理学方面的建树而被授予诺贝尔奖。
12 venom
n.毒液,恶毒,痛恨
  • The snake injects the venom immediately after biting its prey.毒蛇咬住猎物之后马上注入毒液。
  • In fact,some components of the venom may benefit human health.事实上,毒液的某些成分可能有益于人类健康。
13 plummet
vi.(价格、水平等)骤然下跌;n.铅坠;重压物
  • Mengniu and Yili have seen their shares plummet since the incident broke.自事件发生以来,蒙牛和伊利的股票大幅下跌。
  • Even if rice prices were to plummet,other brakes on poverty alleviation remain.就算大米价格下跌,其它阻止导致贫困的因素仍然存在。
14 coma
n.昏迷,昏迷状态
  • The patient rallied from the coma.病人从昏迷中苏醒过来。
  • She went into a coma after swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills.她吃了一整瓶安眠药后就昏迷过去了。
15 evolutionary
adj.进化的;演化的,演变的;[生]进化论的
  • 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。
学英语单词
-centesis
agenda manipulation
alphabetic writings
ammonium chromate
amphoral
anaptyctic
anselmo
archived member
attain fame
bagliettoes
bale carrier
basic operational weight
berthed passenger
bitunicate ascus
camerine
Canadian Maritime Provinces
canalith
Caryolysene
CATx.
centricipitai
charactersketch
chicxulubs
Coulomb explosions
deferred addressing indicator
DIN connector
Ditrichopsis
equilibrium moisture percentage
evidence needed for material items
extra heavy size
fibre tuft
firelighters
FORTRAN-like call
FPA
generals' coup
gynophile
hallpike
heat of admixture
high voltage electrostatic voltmeter
hot-knifed
husbandwoman
initial-steam flow rate
interface management language
inveline
irregular sea
kiiri
lingula sphenoidalis
locally convex linear space
main propulsion loop
meaingoradicular
methyl xyloside
mill for rolling circular shapes
millenniums
miscellaneous gain
modulus of elasticity in static bending
mothers-of-pearl
multiwave interaction
narcissistic behavior disorder
non-staple
nonplussation
nonproductive investment
note-making
obstacle jump
olfactory epithelium
one's lips are sealed
orles
photoelectric transducer
photoelectron stream
pleasy
pointer
polluting property
presentation of self
pterygoideus muscle
radar constant
radio digital terminal
real expansion
real process
replacement series
requitative
reset-set flip-flop
reticuloendothelioma
RLBA
rolling diameter
royal bhutan dance troupe
sensorily
shallow article
shit shovelers
slug us
structured data
swinging winch
tail pipe burning
taken to be
tensor ligament
the spanish
thermo-electronic
thigh
thiodiphlamine
trapping index
tube transportation
vivifical
Wolff-Eisoer test
zat