SSS 2011-05-25
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(五)月
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute.
A jumping cockroach 1. A glowing mushroom. And a leech 2 that has teeth. These are three of scientists' picks for the Top Ten New Species described in 2010. The list is assembled by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State.
Let's start with the roach. Not since the age of dinosaurs 3 has the world known a roach with a vertical 4 leap. Its legs are modified for bouncing and its eyes stick out from the sides of its head, so it can look while it leaps.
The luminescent 'shrooms, with their green glowing stems, were dubbed 5 Mycena luxaeterna or eternal light after Mozart's Requiem 6.
Speaking of names, an orb-weaving spider named after Darwin made the list. A native of Madagascar, this spider spins silk stronger than Kevlar into a web that can stretch across lakes and rivers.
Many of the list members were found in unusual places. A batfish as flat as a pancake was dredged up from the oil-slick waters in the Gulf 7 of Mexico. A new species of antelope 8 was found on sale at a West African bush meat market. And if that's not disturbing enough for you, the toothy leech was actually discovered up some dude's nose. Talk about picking a winner!
Thanks for the minute. For Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin.
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head off.蟑螂在头被切掉后仍能活好几个星期。
- She screamed when she found a cockroach in her bed.她在床上找到一只蟑螂时大声尖叫。
- A leech is a small blood-sucking worm and usually lives in water.水蛭是一种小型吸血虫，通常生活在水中。
- One-side love like a greedy leech absorbed my time and my mirth.单相思如同一只贪婪的水蛭，吸走了我的时间和欢笑。
- The brontosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. 雷龙是所有恐龙中最大的一种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The northern side of the mountain is almost vertical.这座山的北坡几乎是垂直的。
- Vertical air motions are not measured by this system.垂直气流的运动不用这种系统来测量。
- Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
- Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》
- I will sing a requiem for the land walkers.我会给陆地上走的人唱首安魂曲。
- The Requiem is on the list for today's concert.《安魂曲》是这次音乐会的演出曲目之一。