时间:2019-02-23 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


英语课

 According to the famous song, American is beautiful for its spacious 1 skies, purple mountains, and amber 2 waves of grain. If you were to make a music video based on these lyrics 3 you'd probably want mid 4 to late summer images of fruit-laden trees and fields of rippling 5 wheat under sunny blue skies.   But where the amber waves of grain are concerned, the image might be slightly misleading. While at least some wheat in the United States and Canada is planted in the spring and harvested in the summer, much is planted in the late fall and harvested in the spring. Winter wheat manages to survive freezing temperatures and being buried under piles of snow.


How do these plants pull it off?
After being planted in the mid to late fall, winter wheat seedlings 6 undergo a process called cold acclimation 7. They begin to grow and poke 8 through the soil as the temperature drops to around forty-eight degrees Fahrenheit 9. As the plant's leaves absorb light the seedlings produce large amounts of carbon and store it in the crown, the part of the plant where root and shoot meet underground.
At the same time, the absorption of light combined with low temperatures triggers the expression of certain genes 10 that help the plant tolerate freezing temperatures. Although scientists do not fully 11 understand precisely 12 how this process works, it is clear that carbon production and freezing tolerance 13 are necessary for the plant's survival.
When the snow melts and temperatures rise in the spring, the plant has plenty of stored energy for steady growth. By mid spring many North American wheat fields are beautiful with waves of grain ready for harvest.

adj.广阔的,宽敞的
  • Our yard is spacious enough for a swimming pool.我们的院子很宽敞,足够建一座游泳池。
  • The room is bright and spacious.这房间很豁亮。
n.琥珀;琥珀色;adj.琥珀制的
  • Would you like an amber necklace for your birthday?你过生日想要一条琥珀项链吗?
  • This is a piece of little amber stones.这是一块小小的琥珀化石。
n.歌词
  • music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart 由罗杰斯和哈特作词作曲
  • The book contains lyrics and guitar tablatures for over 100 songs. 这本书有100多首歌的歌词和吉他奏法谱。
adj.中央的,中间的
  • Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
  • He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。
起涟漪的,潺潺流水般声音的
  • I could see the dawn breeze rippling the shining water. 我能看见黎明的微风在波光粼粼的水面上吹出道道涟漪。
  • The pool rippling was caused by the waving of the reeds. 池塘里的潺潺声是芦苇摇动时引起的。
n.刚出芽的幼苗( seedling的名词复数 )
  • Ninety-five per cent of the new seedlings have survived. 新栽的树苗95%都已成活。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • In such wet weather we must prevent the seedlings from rotting. 这样的阴雨天要防止烂秧。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.服水土,顺应,适应环境;服习;驯化
  • The incipient lethal temperature are shifted upward by acclimation to warmer temperature. 四角蛤蜊起始致死温是随驯化温度的变化而改变。 来自互联网
  • A respiration rate compensation throught thermal acclimation is demonstrated by E. 温度驯化能导致速率补偿,表现为25℃驯化河蟹的呼吸率明显低于10℃驯化河蟹的呼吸率。 来自互联网
n.刺,戳,袋;vt.拨开,刺,戳;vi.戳,刺,捅,搜索,伸出,行动散慢
  • We never thought she would poke her nose into this.想不到她会插上一手。
  • Don't poke fun at me.别拿我凑趣儿。
n./adj.华氏温度;华氏温度计(的)
  • He was asked for the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit.他被问到水的沸点是华氏多少度。
  • The thermometer reads 80 degrees Fahrenheit.寒暑表指出华氏80度。
n.基因( gene的名词复数 )
  • You have good genes from your parents, so you should live a long time. 你从父母那儿获得优良的基因,所以能够活得很长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Differences will help to reveal the functions of the genes. 它们间的差异将会帮助我们揭开基因多种功能。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 生物技术的世纪
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。
adv.恰好,正好,精确地,细致地
  • It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
  • The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。
n.宽容;容忍,忍受;耐药力;公差
  • Tolerance is one of his strengths.宽容是他的一个优点。
  • Human beings have limited tolerance of noise.人类对噪音的忍耐力有限。
学英语单词
antero-posteriors
attacks
autocannibalism
autoradioimmunography
benzophenone phenylhydrazone
bitangent
blending lighting
blue sky
bonded vaults
Caligulism
catting chain
concar
congenital brain edema
coordination
cotransduced
declaration of avoidance
depaves
despisable
dicamptus nigropictus
disjunctional
dropped seat
Dylene
dyrham
enrooting
ethmoidal region
expansion-pressure device
federative units
Ficus septica
filths
filtrable virus
for reference only
fox cubs
friendling
fuze (fuse)
gaggero
genetic transmitting ability
genus thujopses
get one's dander up
glow discharge carburizing
GMAN
gramme
hand brake lever pawl spring cup
high-power microscope
Ibuprohm
in personality
instruction lookahead
jobsearch
Juncus aletaiensis
Junion
kept schtum
lacquerware
lane identification frequency
listening sweep
logical channel queue
low profiles
man of honour
moos
needle-shaped cathode
nigricans
nondifferent
nonglazed
oil flotation
oldwenches
opal mutation
pancala batanica
parterre
pavonne
peetes
phenomenal physics
physical limit
Pius X
postretinal
postscripting
Prattsburg
proculstant
protein refractometer
quotient Lie algebra
radio interception
Rapanea verruculosa
re-evaluating
runway direction number
scarus frenatus
self-clamping jig
semidry method
smocklike
software support manual
spatial power distribution flattening
string type
support groups
surez
switching fabric
symmetric cryptographic systems
test-driven development
testing panel
thalassoceratids
trunk mat
unassigned real address area
unihemispheric
vegetable protein fibre
venae anastomotica superior
zekes