时间:2019-01-23 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2013年


英语课

 Interwoven layers can absorb the power of a piercing attack. 


 
Ankylosaurus pretty much was not afraid of anything because it would be very difficult to kill this beast. 
 
This creature’s armor protects something else as well, its eyes. The eyelids 1 of an Ankylosaurus are made of bone. 
 
Ankylosaurus are enormous. They didn’t have legs. They didn’t need to trace after their prey 2, their vegetation. It wasn’t going anywhere but just there. They had these bone plates that formed its skin. And this is similar to what we see in crocodiles, armor on the back. Well, Ankylosaurus they went even further. They encase their entire backs besides their bellies 3, even develop these bones in their eyelids so that have armored eyelids. 
 
But a body covered in steel-like armor is only the beginning. Ankylosaurus also has a powerful offensive weapon—its tail, a club that can pummel an opponent with 90 tons of force. The top half is composed of muscle. The vertebrae on the lower half are fused together to form a solid, rod-like whip. This tail can snap more than 45 degrees in either direction. At the very end is a bony mass like a built-in sledgehammer. 
 
A giant mace 4 that’s really well built for smashing into the heads or the legs of Tyrannosaurus and its relatives. 
 
This tail is capable of enough power to shatter the leg bones of almost any predator 5, no matter how big. 
 
An impact from that club could crush bone, shatter teeth. If not kill the T-Rex outright 6, wound it in such a way that it’s likely to starve to death. 
 
Like a wrecking ball weighing almost 45 kilograms, swinging at a speed of 78 kilometers… 

n.眼睑( eyelid的名词复数 );眼睛也不眨一下;不露声色;面不改色
  • She was so tired, her eyelids were beginning to droop. 她太疲倦了,眼睑开始往下垂。
  • Her eyelids drooped as if she were on the verge of sleep. 她眼睑低垂好像快要睡着的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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。
n.肚子( belly的名词复数 );腹部;(物体的)圆形或凸起部份;腹部…形的
  • They crawled along on their bellies. 他们匍匐前进。
  • starving children with huge distended bellies 鼓着浮肿肚子的挨饿儿童
n.狼牙棒,豆蔻干皮
  • The sword and mace were favourite weapons for hand-to-hand fighting.剑和狼牙棒是肉搏战的最佳武器。
  • She put some mace into the meat.她往肉里加了一些肉豆蔻干皮。
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。
adv.坦率地;彻底地;立即;adj.无疑的;彻底的
  • If you have a complaint you should tell me outright.如果你有不满意的事,你应该直率地对我说。
  • You should persuade her to marry you outright.你应该彻底劝服她嫁给你。
学英语单词
a hook
absence of contact
aerospace materials information center
alkannan
all-digital simulation
alternaric acid
auto-dischargeable centrifuge
aylen
ballot problem
bank credit receipts and payments
batsmanships
behavior chain
Bhatinda
brilliant crimson
cascais
chargiour
corrosive proof cable
cup type electrostatic paint sprayer
daypauline
DBTG (data base task group)
De Quincy
deep drawnblister pack
deficit carried forward till extinction
Despen
diffusion amplifier
dimension figure
dissimulatings
Doctor of Dovinity
eruptocrine
external naris
external treatment
first year
floating gallbladder
forest fire fighters
frenuloplasty
funnel of causality
galeatus
galvanostatic polarization curve
grazing frequency
gynomonoecious
heat zone
hemsley
horse-racer
horsford
Hot Rolling Mill
ideal condition
impliedly
infra-red polymerization index
La Albuera
legs of right triangle
legsides
limited and reduced
Loxostigma musetorum
maciejewski
Marshallian price theory
mesoblastoma
metal treatment
mobbed
muscle gastrocnemius
nitrogenized
nonplused
offering or accepting bribes
oil furnaces
origin of coordinates of earth poles
paper web
paraplegia in extension
photographic reconnaissance aircraft
pileris
polycentropodid
polyetiological theory
porchetta
quasi-seasonal fluctuation
range dial
rearrangement planning
receive-only equipment
reproducibility of results of measurement
saint judes
SDT indicator
self-reliances
silk twill brocade
skip tracer
smart set
standard electric log
structured design phase
Surestryl
synchronizing of images
T-A mixture
throw discredit upon
Thüster Berg
trail heats
trans lesbian
turn somebody down
ulstermen
veterans employment statistics
water distillation
wattle-and-daub
wave-motion
wet granulation
wild cranberries
wristed