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
abadox
AFNORTH
agenda sheet of audit
allitridum
autolatries
bachelors-at-arms
bazookaman
binding process
block mountain
Boracéia
bousono
buff leather
cardiotachometer
carrabiose
carted off
cassioberry
catledge
cheered up
chip washer
choleratoxin
collegenesse
compression resistance starter
conductor configuration
contorniate
convertible body
corpora callosa
creep rate
cylinder spacer
cystirrhea
design waterline
diagram of strains
dickbrains
dicranocephalus yui cheni
digital content regulation
Doppler indicator
equilibrium ratio
erythroleukothrombocythemia
euprymna berryi
Eurylaimidae
flange width
flanging hydraulic press
floating aerodrome
ganancia
gelata
gliders
gone hand in hand with
Goulmima
grit maker
headcanon
high master
hydroelectric turbine
hypogen deposit
information-processing system
interrelatings
ionosphere layer
japanese fern spore
khadras
Koło
legal highs
main nutrient elements
make a pig of themselves
Maze-gawa
natrium biboricum
nomination of arbitractor
non-manual control
nonsue
one-stage disproportionation
parliamentary debates
pathologic autopsy
pneumatic spring
positive pyritohedron
prensor
price-pegging
ravenelia brevispora
ready bit
reference symbol
regratings
resident service program
RSA Secure ID
secular perturbations
Shakaskraal
sicklepods
sir frank whittles
smack-down
source grammar
superwonderful
talk sb through sth
testis (pl. testes)
to declutch
triangulation base
trivial solution
tulle
Tuy An
unconceited
unregulated polymer
upswayed
vane wheel boat
veneer crown grafting
Witley
xestia flavilinea
zinc compound
zirconium tribromide