时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:趣谈英语


英语课

Pre-Listening Vocabulary
 
migrate: to move from one region to another
primarily: mainly
extinct: no longer alive as a species
infectious: spreadable
preserved: kept intact; cared for in order to last a long time
remains 1: the physical parts that are left after death
Smithsonian: a large group of museums

 
 
Martha Was The Last Passenger Pigeon
Before the 1900s, passenger pigeons made up about 40 percent of the total bird population in the US. These birds migrated in massive colonies, and there were so many of them that they could actually black out the sun. Passenger pigeons were over-hunted primarily because their nesting habits made them an easy target. Hunters in North America wouldn’t have believed that the species was in danger of becoming extinct. A single tree could house over 100 nests. This also made it easy for infectious diseases to spread through the colonies. By the late nineteenth century it was rare to come across a passenger pigeon. Some attempts were made to save the passenger pigeon from extinction 2, but it was too late. The last remaining passenger pigeon was named “Martha” after George Washington’s wife. Her preserved remains are in the Smithsonian collection.

1 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
2 extinction
n.熄灭,消亡,消灭,灭绝,绝种
  • The plant is now in danger of extinction.这种植物现在有绝种的危险。
  • The island's way of life is doomed to extinction.这个岛上的生活方式注定要消失。
学英语单词
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a rag of
ability-achievement
achondroplasic
adipose tissues
adjustable rate mortgage (arm)
age critique
agential
amphioxea
Armeria maritima
Badagri
be submerged
bocci
bowfin
canulisations
charge composition age
closing of root
compartment pressure
critical resource
deposit on long term leases
derivative plans
di-o-tolyl guanidine
digital method
dipole-elastic loss
drop error
dvlas
edgels
Elatostema acuminatum
enzinopsis idosia
filled pauses
forty-third
frien
gage box
gennemic
george orson welless
Gilbert Stuart
glottology
GPPEC
grounding transformer
hard rot
hardmeter
heat dissipation factor
heidelberg men
height of V-window opening
indexing worm
Joint Maritime Committee
L-dihydroxyphenylalamine
leg bone
lindy hops
lupinus subcarnosuss
main logic
main rod brass wedge bolt
marsdekosideC
ministry of public health
minute work
mother fuckers
myotenontoplasty
Nozhay-Yurtovskiy Ryaon
oil pump shaft gear
oleo-pneumatic shock absorber
onend
optical spectrum analyser
oscillograph galvanometer
oxyphilic cells of hypophysis
p-phenylazophenol
palatineship
pepper cellar
perugini
Phyllostachys verrucosa
plasmopara paulowniae
pollice
polyglottal
pontifical
pressing debts
proton acceptor
pyrenol
readable line
resistance to creasing
sabugalite
samy
self-inflating
shore teetan
Sionit
six-gilled shark
slant letter
solstitial colure
spiral curve
Spondias mombin
sport cars
sports grounds
statement of sources and application of funds
swivel motion loom
temperature compensation device
Thānagaon
to French kiss
Turkish sponge
vent agglomerate
waiting queue channel
wakingly
watersnail
weak at the knees