时间:2019-01-23 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2013年


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 …19 meters tall and almost 30 meters long. Its neck alone is 4 stories long, a single vertebra almost as tall as a grown man. And a single thighbone weighs over half a ton. 


 
They seem to break all of the rules. There’s nothing like them around today. 
 
Containing over 72 million calories of fresh meat, you’d think Sauroposeidon would be the jackpot for a bloodthirsty carnivore. 
 
They don’t have horns. They don’t have armor. Really, the only antipredator defense 1 they have is sheer size.
 
And size does matter. When a Goliath like this is fully 2 grown, even the most vicious predators 3 keep their distance, even the most ferocious 4 raptor of the Cretaceous—Deinonychus. At 90 kilos, this raptor pales in comparison to its 50-ton prey 5
 
If we’re talking about a single adult Deinonychus and a single adult Sauroposeidon, the story would go something like this. “Hi! I’m a Deinonychus.” “I’m a Sauroposeidon.” Kuh!
 
But for a Sauroposeidon, reaching full size can take years. To make things worse, fossil evidence shows that juveniles 6 live alone, separated from the herd 7 until they reach at least a third of their adult weight. That means for nearly a decade, they wander the forest alone. And that forest is crawling with Deinonychus.
 
Intelligent and well-armed, they hunt on their own or sometimes in packs, they run with a top speed of 65 kilometers per hour.
 
These raptors can take on a youngster. For a young Sauroposeidon, there’s just one solution—get big quickly. And that’s gonna take a lot of…
 

n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
n.食肉动物( predator的名词复数 );奴役他人者(尤指在财务或性关系方面)
  • birds and their earthbound predators 鸟和地面上捕食它们的动物
  • The eyes of predators are highly sensitive to the slightest movement. 捕食性动物的眼睛能感觉到最细小的动静。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.凶猛的,残暴的,极度的,十分强烈的
  • The ferocious winds seemed about to tear the ship to pieces.狂风仿佛要把船撕成碎片似的。
  • The ferocious panther is chasing a rabbit.那只凶猛的豹子正追赶一只兔子。
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.青少年( juvenile的名词复数 );扮演少年角色的演员;未成年人
  • Do you think that punishment for violent crimes should be the same for juveniles and adults? 你对暴力犯罪的惩罚对于青少年和成人应一样吗? 来自生活英语口语25天快训
  • Juveniles Should we not exactly in need of such strength and conviction? 少年的我们难道不正是需要这种力量和信念吗? 来自互联网
n.兽群,牧群;vt.使集中,把…赶在一起
  • She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
  • He had no opinions of his own but simply follow the herd.他从无主见,只是人云亦云。
学英语单词
3VD
adminstrative
Aeluropus micrantherus
albonoursin
alcohol amblyopia
annumerates
Barazi
benefit payable
built-up flange
catch box
cogredient
concrete ballast
conditional independence assumptions
copy edit
cosmetic surgeries
croyle
cut-wrap machine
deexcitation effect
difeconazole
disaster movie
dunlevy
early generation
economic winding capacity
eddy(ing) motion
facetted mirrors
first notice day
flanged ball valve
formozygaena shibatai
frequency separator
furiosity
give and take lines
GM_how-is-or-what-is-like
gordunite
gowpenful
graphitic lubricants
grey-coated
groggers
hat-trick
Hinduism
human resources department
hydatomorphic
hygrobates hamatus
ice water mixture
inhalations general anaesthetic
initial environment
instantaneous detector
IR drop compensation
land fit for heroes
Laudisoline
leatherette paper
lecanoric
lever block
Medici Giovanni de'
mercast process
mockorange
momentarian
Mucuna sempervirens
mud-caked
nonlocalities
nuclear radiation spectrum
optic zone
parabola of cohesion
passage (hydraulic)
pill mass roller
pin sb down
pregnenolone-16a-carbonitrile
Procanodia
projected map display system
proportional power unit
psilomelane
rabble hypothesis
radiometric sextant
raw material meat
re-style
reckon
security center
simbolo
solid radioactive waste
St. Ex.
standard elliptic integral
stazzema
sulfofication
super oilite machine parts
surface blemish
swordmaster
tanked up
trichoropis cednulli
tuberculum ossis navicularis
tuberculum taeniae
underpoise
used beat
vapo(u)r-phase chromatography
virginia thimbleweeds
watertable rise
wellbegun
werecreature
whs. stk.
wiremakers
word-games
Yahuwah
zeo-karb 225
zone fusion