Men find thinner women attractive because they associate their body shape with youth, fertility and a lower risk of disease. 男人们总觉得纤瘦的女性迷人,这是因为男性把体型和年轻、生育能力还有患病风险低联系在一起

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Evolving Toward Cancer Is it possible that humans evolved to get cancer? Thats what scientists at Ben Gurion University in Israel claim in a study. They found that the same genetic mutations involved in the evolution of modern humans also gave rise t

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(34) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

It exploded with the force of a million nuclear bombs and unleashed the power of the sun. 它爆炸的威力相当于一百万枚核弹,释放出太阳的能量。 It set alight the entire biomass of earth and cooked the atmosphere. 它点燃了地球

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 侏罗纪搏击俱乐部

I don't want any hassles with the fuzz. hassle:麻烦 fuzz:[美俚]警察 我可不想跟条子发生口角。 -Howard:Fine, what color do you want? 好吧,你想要什么颜色? -Sheldon:You know the pale blue of Luke Skywalker's Lightsa

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 生活大爆炸第二季

Writing in the journal Evolution, Dawkins attacked Gould's assertions that evolution in the Cambrian was a different kind of process from today 道金斯在《进化》杂志上的文章里,攻击古尔德关于寒武纪的进化不同于今天的进

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

Monica: What you guys don't understand is, for us, kissing is as important as any part of it. 你们男生不懂的是,对于我们而言,亲吻和其他任何部分一样重要。 Joey: Yeah, right!...Serious? 没错!当真? Phoebe: Oh, yeah

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 老友记精校版第1季

Which species would take over the world if humans went extinct? 如果人类灭绝了,哪类物种会统治世界? 来自Quora的网友总结: Well it won't be fecking dolphins, that's for sure. Because: 当然,那TM肯定不可能是海豚。因

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

Was it you who spoke the words that things would happen but not to me Oh things are gonna happen naturally Oh taking your advice I'm looking on the bright side And balancing the whole thing But often times those words get tangled up in lines And the

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 美国偶像 American Idol

Antievolution Legislation Shows Descent with Modification Creationism evolves and sometimes those new strategies succeed. 创世论得到发展,有时候,是新的策略取得的成就。 Nicholas Matzke, an evolutionary biologist currently on a

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年科学美国人5月

Evolution In Action Although rainforests cover less than two percent of Earths surface, they are home to more than half of all plant and animal species. How did rainforestsevolve so much more diversity than other parts of the globe? For starters, tro

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

The Asian system is transparent, says Karen Fuson, a Northwestern University psychologist who has done much of the research on Asian-western differences. 亚洲人的计算方法非常直观,一名西北大学的心理学家卡恩弗森(Karen Fus

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compound n. 化合物 concentrated adj.集中的 concentration n.浓度 conclusively adv.最后地 conduct n.v. 进行 confined adj.被限制的 confinement n.(被)限制,(被)紧闭 conserv

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

讲师: 伊莎贝尔贝恩克 字幕:中英双文 授课语言:英文 在这个以前从没看到过的视频里,灵长类动物学家伊莎贝尔贝恩克伊斯基耶多讲了倭黑猩猩类人猿社会是如何通过不断地独自玩耍,和

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲视频集

包拉托的色彩游戏迷惑了你的视觉,却也突显出你平常所无法看到的: 你的大脑如何工作。我们善变的视觉感官所得到的有趣并且直接的印象,展现了进化是如何渲染我们对真实事物之外的感知

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Todays word is: osteoporosis! Yep, osteoporosis. Now, youve heard this word before, and you know it has something to do with bones. But can you actually explain what it is? The answer is straight-forward. It comes down to the fact that we human being

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

Furthermore, the fossil had Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA. This is passed from mother to child, 此外,化石中有尼安德塔线粒体DNA。这是从母亲基因中遗传下来的, which meant that either the teenager was the daughter of a Deni

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

Set aside romantic sentiment. Sex is a biological insurance policy. 除了浪漫调情,性也是一份生物保险单。 By chaotically mixing their genetic information, animals generate extraordinary diversity. 通过将基因信息杂乱混合,动

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

Finding your life purpose can often feel like trying to locate the Holy Grail, but the truth is it's not as hard as you think. 寻找人生目标经常就像寻找圣杯在哪里一样麻烦,但事实上这没有你想象的那么难。 Simply put,

发表于:2019-02-23 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力广播—Listening

We have evolved to utilize or tolerate these thingswe could hardly be here otherwise but even then we live within narrow ranges of acceptance. 我们已经逐步学会利用或忍受这些东西要不然我们几乎不可能在这里但即使那样,我

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

Are you clever enough? 你够聪明吗? As a report suggests, There is growing evidence that musicians have structurally and functionally different brains compared with non-musicians. In particular, the areas of the brain used to process music are

发表于:2019-03-06 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力广播—Listening