时间:2019-01-23 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2013年


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 One could imagine that the conflict between Tyrannosaurs and Triceratops may have been one of the greatest combats that nature has ever had. 


 
And this well-protected herbivore is everywhere. In fact in the Late Cretaceous, Triceratops outnumbered Tyrannosaurs ten to one. Their success is down to one reason. 
 
A single thrust of the brow horn could penetrate 1 right into the cardiac chamber 2 or the lungs. 
 
If you’re gonna put a meter-long horn into a chest cavity of a T-Rex, the chance of you doing some damage are pretty great.
 
Tyrannosaurus Rex is stabbed in the eye. 
 
The key element for any predator 3 is to go in, make the kill, get what they need, and do it without injuring himself.
 
For a carnivorous predator, losing an eye could be fatal. Back at the nest, the chicks are guarded only by the male. Over him, a Quetzalcoatlus senses blood. On the ground, one parent is down and the other faces starvation. For a vulnerable baby T-Rex, the situation couldn’t get much worse.
 
Sauroposeidon is the tallest land animal of all time. At 17 meters high and 30 meters long, it would dwarf 4 any living creature today. But despite these mammoth 5 proportions, its brain is tiny, weighting just over 100 grams. 
 
The brain size of Sauroposeidon would probably be about the size of a cheeseburger. 
 
It probably had the smallest brain size to body size of any big animal that’s ever lived.
 
Big, dumb, brute 6
 
A Sauroposeidon’s brain is a thousand times smaller than its body, just 1/8 of the brain capacity of a T-Rex. And its cerebrum, where strategic thinking takes place, is barely developed.

v.透(渗)入;刺入,刺穿;洞察,了解
  • Western ideas penetrate slowly through the East.西方观念逐渐传入东方。
  • The sunshine could not penetrate where the trees were thickest.阳光不能透入树木最浓密的地方。
n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所
  • For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说,牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
  • The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。
n.捕食其它动物的动物;捕食者
  • The final part of this chapter was devoted to a brief summary of predator species.本章最后部分简要总结了食肉动物。
  • Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard and a fearsome predator.科摩多龙是目前存在的最大蜥蜴,它是一种令人恐惧的捕食性动物。
n.矮子,侏儒,矮小的动植物;vt.使…矮小
  • The dwarf's long arms were not proportional to his height.那侏儒的长臂与他的身高不成比例。
  • The dwarf shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. 矮子耸耸肩膀,摇摇头。
n.长毛象;adj.长毛象似的,巨大的
  • You can only undertake mammoth changes if the finances are there.资金到位的情况下方可进行重大变革。
  • Building the new railroad will be a mammoth job.修建那条新铁路将是一项巨大工程。
n.野兽,兽性
  • The aggressor troops are not many degrees removed from the brute.侵略军简直象一群野兽。
  • That dog is a dangerous brute.It bites people.那条狗是危险的畜牲,它咬人。
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afghanites
airspray
antiadherent
as sulky as a bear
autoincrement addressing
axis error
Brazilian elodea
built-on pump
ceiling-fan motor
certificated route
chromium(iii) hydride
cibaries
column-like
composite-variable index
cross-slides
cyclodopa
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depopulacy
dialkylmercury
disturbance of of public worship
double-buffered data transter
dual channel universal interface
edmund gunter
explicit programming
fa' sho'
ferrite magnetostrictive vibrator
Feussner spark generator
figurin
flap-seat
floo-floo bird
fungal granuloma
gambler's ruin
genus Prionotus
go in with good cards
green ginger
grendel
group delay equalization
guyed structure
hag-fish
hemp packing (hemp jointing)
highway transport volume
host density
hymnologists
in process stock
information input
interlobular emphysema
internal ear fenestration knife
ithylordosis
jfc
labio-maxillary complex
lewises
Liability of Leaser
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mcclellans
medium-level language
merbah
mesh of grid
Minargent alloy
miscellaneous meat
molsydomine
morrisse
neee
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off-centre bubble
on-line certificate status protocol
OSlav
oxalaceto
packless joint
Pallene
pantheids
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primogonyl
public utility system
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reamer with helical flutes
Recoverable coal
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rostite
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slight pain
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Sudafen
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to debugger
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