时间:2019-01-20 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(三)月


英语课

   Unless you are a convention, speaking middle English is not going to impress a potential romantic partner in 2013. Similarly, male sparrows have to make sure their vocalization is up to date. Researchers analyze 1 three decades of recordings 2 of male sparrows. And birds change their tune 3 over the ears did better with the ladies. The researcher's in the journal animal behavior. While introductory notes of the sparrow's songs did better with the ladies, the middle and end part changed over time. In the 1980’s, songs concluded with longer, high-pitched trills. More recent songs contain serials 4 of clicks in the middle and short low-pitched trill at the end. Researchers found that the male sparrows that adopted the newer songs have higher rates of sexual reproduction. Because you don't want to be seen as behind the times.  Indeed, Ch~~ might have had his pick of the ladies in the 14th century. But few today can make heads or tails of his tales.



vt.分析,解析 (=analyse)
  • We should analyze the cause and effect of this event.我们应该分析这场事变的因果。
  • The teacher tried to analyze the cause of our failure.老师设法分析我们失败的原因。
n.记录( recording的名词复数 );录音;录像;唱片
  • a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
  • old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐
n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
n.连载小说,电视连续剧( serial的名词复数 )
  • The computer can alter the serials librarian and produce a bindery notice. 计算机可提醒管理连续出版物的馆员,并制作装订通知。 来自辞典例句
  • I realized I have started to like a few of their serials. 我意识到我已开始喜欢上了不少他们的连续剧。 来自互联网
学英语单词
A-gW
a-swoon
abligate
acetylene smoke
ActiveX Documents
al-fajrs
Armour Peninsula
Bandua
barycentric
capital maintenance concept
Caporetto
centimeter-excess object
chutes-the-chutes
class Oligochaeta
club deposit
coercionist
cookeolus boops
coventrated
cumulenes
cuttacks
DCFR
dialect geographies
digital computer association
DIL
Dipoma iberideum
dominant chord of the seventh
e-signature
electric signal lever lock
encarnacion
end-gainings
equivariant estimators
essential amino-acid
Excoecaria formosana
firmage
fiscal crisis
fixed interest rate securities
folklorist
fraternal association
free register
gather information
genus Myopus
halfdozen
higher order theory
hold breath
hoover dam (boulder dam)
huddlestons
hyperreninemic
inactive level
interfacility transfer trunk
karst peneplain
Katselovo
longitudinal divergence
low light level microspectrophotometer
methyl-mercuric halide
modeling program
moire antique
moonbow
NCAST
not fit to be touched with a pair of tongs
nuke oneself
orogenic sequence
partially-penetrated well
particular-identity
pdsr
phonoscope
photosensitises
pixy-led
pll
port congestion surcharges
postcentralis
preacquisition profits
prionopelta kraepelini
productive structure of herb type
prominence streamer
pulls ahead
radio-electromyograph
rain drop test
red and white beacon
ribald
rod carrier
salicylazosulfapyridne
scatter load
schizoanalytical
school medical officer
Scleractinia
Sechium
sectional contract
slice of time
sponging-houses
star reticle
strata lucidum
suxeton
troutdale
truncus oesophageus dorsalis
undiscipline
upper pure value
venture opportunity school
vice-grip
wet-bulb(temperature)
wheat-germ oil
wholesale middleman
zinc desilverization plant