时间:2019-01-20 作者:英语课 分类:2014年Scientific American(九)月


英语课

 Everybody loves chimps 2…especially their endearing entreaties 3.  Scientists, too, love to listen to chimps chat.  And they enjoy sharing these colorful commentaries with their colleagues. Now, anyone with a hankering for primate 4 prattle 5 can listen in. Because researchers from the Netherlands have made available online a digitized catalog of more than 10 hours’ worth of chimpanzee calls. The recordings 6 are described in a new journal, published by Nature, called Scientific Data.


 
The audio, which includes more than 1,000 separate data files, was captured in the early 1970s by the late Hetty van de Rijt-Plooij. She recorded the various screams, barks, and hoocalls made by a group of chimps, including 17 youngsters, living in the wild in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania. 
 
Van de Rijt-Plooij and her husband Frans Plooij were planning to study how chimp 1 vocalizations change over the life of an individual. But they ended up focusing on how baby chimps behave, so their extensive recordings have remained largely unexplored.
 
One thing that pops out of this collection is that immature 7 chimps grunt 8 more than their adult counterparts . Which suggests that you don’t want to talk to baby Bonzo before he’s had his morning banana smoothie. 
 
—Karen Hopkin

n.黑猩猩
  • In fact,the color of gorilla and chimp are light-color.其实大猩猩和黑猩猩的肤色是较为浅的。
  • The chimp is the champ.猩猩是冠军。
(非洲)黑猩猩( chimp的名词复数 )
  • Chimps are too scarce, and too nearly human, to be routinely slaughtered for spare parts. 黑猩猩又太少,也太接近于人类,不可以作为人器官备用件说杀就杀。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
  • And as nonprimates, they provoke fewer ethical and safety-related concerns than chimps or baboons. 而且作为非灵长类,就不会产生像用黑猩猩或狒狒那样的伦理和安全方面的顾虑。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
n.恳求,乞求( entreaty的名词复数 )
  • He began with entreaties and ended with a threat. 他先是恳求,最后是威胁。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The tyrant was deaf to the entreaties of the slaves. 暴君听不到奴隶们的哀鸣。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.灵长类(目)动物,首席主教;adj.首要的
  • 14 percent of primate species are highly endangered.14%的灵长类物种处于高度濒危状态。
  • The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.绒毛蛛猴是美洲最大的灵长类动物。
n.闲谈;v.(小孩般)天真无邪地说话;发出连续而无意义的声音
  • Amy's happy prattle became intolerable.艾美兴高采烈地叽叽喳喳说个不停,汤姆感到无法忍受。
  • Flowing water and green grass witness your lover's endless prattle.流水缠绕,小草依依,都是你诉不尽的情话。
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
adj.未成熟的,发育未全的,未充分发展的
  • Tony seemed very shallow and immature.托尼看起来好像很肤浅,不夠成熟。
  • The birds were in immature plumage.这些鸟儿羽翅未全。
v.嘟哝;作呼噜声;n.呼噜声,嘟哝
  • He lifted the heavy suitcase with a grunt.他咕噜着把沉重的提箱拎了起来。
  • I ask him what he think,but he just grunt.我问他在想什麽,他只哼了一声。
学英语单词
analog data recorder
anthony hope
Attenkirchen
autogenic therapies
baretto
Beclard's amputation
bhante
Brezova
brief psychoanalytic treatment
call her right back
carbon seal ring
chain cable fairlead
checking credit
chemical economics
chylidrosis
color display monitor
common cockscombs
concentrating pond
counterspace
creep embrittlement
crepe hair
disasterina odontacantha
distortion in the crystal lattice
dry location
eights coast
enanthic acid ethyl ester
encendiary
etymological dictionary
expense for maintenance
explorative
fantagraphics
fen-like
ferrinic
fibresands
financial meltdown
four-flap Z-plasty
fracture of the rib
furcraea cubeusis vent
germule
half-beam
halocarbon resin
heritable property
hospitalenkoside
improved propeller
incarbonization
internal hydraulic brake
karakozov
key card punch
kirkup
lavender blush
let's talk
Lion King-at-arms
lower level discriminator
managerial art
market malpractice
message redundancy
microprocessor instruction path
model group
money-baseds
monocord system trunk board
myxoneurosis
n-dodecane
nonmating
offer subject to confirmation
outfous
pack on all sails
packet-switched
passenger capacities
people's college
Pinel's system
pressing-in
primary matte
programming task
progressive fashion
pWW0
real negative
ridge contour
right lane
Rumex nepalensis
self fluxing
sensitive topic
Sri Lankan monetary unit
stagnation-point ablation
stiffening-plate
Stolinskiy Rayon
strawy manure
styrene oxide
Sulfoguaiacol
supplementary arrangement
suppuration in punctured canal
tchula
temporal surface
triple chrome piston ring
triple-jet experiment
two roll machine
VBP
vendor programme
warped finish
weft fork holder pin
Windows Script Host
ZSAT