时间:2019-01-20 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(三)月


英语课

   Unless you are a convention, speaking middle English is not going to impress a potential romantic partner in 2013. Similarly, male sparrows have to make sure their vocalization is up to date. Researchers analyze 1 three decades of recordings 2 of male sparrows. And birds change their tune 3 over the ears did better with the ladies. The researcher's in the journal animal behavior. While introductory notes of the sparrow's songs did better with the ladies, the middle and end part changed over time. In the 1980’s, songs concluded with longer, high-pitched trills. More recent songs contain serials 4 of clicks in the middle and short low-pitched trill at the end. Researchers found that the male sparrows that adopted the newer songs have higher rates of sexual reproduction. Because you don't want to be seen as behind the times.  Indeed, Ch~~ might have had his pick of the ladies in the 14th century. But few today can make heads or tails of his tales.



vt.分析,解析 (=analyse)
  • We should analyze the cause and effect of this event.我们应该分析这场事变的因果。
  • The teacher tried to analyze the cause of our failure.老师设法分析我们失败的原因。
n.记录( recording的名词复数 );录音;录像;唱片
  • a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
  • old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐
n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
n.连载小说,电视连续剧( serial的名词复数 )
  • The computer can alter the serials librarian and produce a bindery notice. 计算机可提醒管理连续出版物的馆员,并制作装订通知。 来自辞典例句
  • I realized I have started to like a few of their serials. 我意识到我已开始喜欢上了不少他们的连续剧。 来自互联网
学英语单词
Acalypterae
access restriction
Acer cordatum
adjustment in range
alternating current servomotor
altice
area under canopy
ausfahrts
bestiarian
bumfs
buying temperature
carcinosarcomata
centrifuge dewaxing
ceramic tube
chrome fast cyanine b
collection efficiency in a photomultiplier tube
conperson
constructive
continuous industry
controllability indices
cooling water temperation gauge
cossety
data de-dupe
demarchy
Dilangtani
draw cone
eidetic image
enpite
epistoler
ethyldiisobutyltin bromide
eucol
fabric disc
Fagersta cut
falsas
fenestration scoop
festuclavine
fria
funiculi vitelline
girth line
hairbell
head board
holomorphic function
Hubbard Creek Reservoir
Hydrangea longialata
ingulfed
IR
job club
journal box lubricator
klintite
knibb
laetiporus sulphureus
lamina rara
loading coil pot
lukewarm water
make-believe
Mercurichloride
minirecorder
molecular clock
Montes Alps
multivariate spline
Mīrpur Sakro
net minesweeping gear
northern dune tansy
nylon thread
oilcan
optional blank
perlection
pipe erecter
pipistrelles
piston ring ends
placenta vera
Planomonospora
potato soup
recirculation capacity
rheoreceptors
rubber disk shock absorber
Saundersfoot
second-in-line
self-smoothing fabric
sensomobility
single-press process
solanine content of potato
sternal synchondrosis
stope box
supporting chip
sweating-bath
sympathetic ink
T.U.
Taidong County
tensive
thatcher
thermosensitive luminescent polymer
tilt rotor aircraft
to make time
Tobor
two part sizing system
tyne 2, tyned, tynt
ulm-
uniaxal
wire chase
wiredrawn
yads