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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
With the spider exposed, it's now a battle between the wasp1's paralyzing sting and the spider's jaws2. But the wasp has quick reflexes. Cornered, the spider now plays its trump3 card. Hurling4 itself down the dune5, it flips7 into a wheel. Traveling at over 40 turns a second, it makes a dizzy dash for freedom. Safe, at last.
Back up the dune, the wasp is left standing8, chasing the scent9 of its vanished meal.
Instinct honed over time, governs much of the life in the Namib. But some creatures also have to learn how to conquer these sands, using knowledge passed down over generations.
African elephants are so resourceful, they can survive even here in the heart of the desert.
Elephants have remarkable10 powers of memory. Though this desert is more than 2 million square kilometers in size, 100 or so elephants it supports know precisely11 where to find enough to eat and drink. It takes a lot of food, up to 300 kilos a day to feed the world's largest land animal. And all of that -from a desert.
But there's one plant here, the Nara, whose roots draw water from deep underground. Each year it produces a bumper12 crop of melons. Elephants just love them.
words and expressions:
1.paralyzing:使瘫痪的
paralyze: make powerless and unable to function(eg.:The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation.)
2.reflex:mental reaction反射,反映
(eg.:The car flipped13;The fish flipped on the deck.)
4.Elephants have remarkable powers of memory.
Often,when we describe someone's amazing memory capacity, we always say:"You have an elephant's memory."
5.bumper:1.缓冲器
2.丰盛的(eg.:a bumper harvest/year)
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n.黄蜂,蚂蜂 | |
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2 jaws | |
n.口部;嘴 | |
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3 trump | |
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭 | |
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4 hurling | |
n.爱尔兰式曲棍球v.猛投,用力掷( hurl的现在分词 );大声叫骂 | |
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5 dune | |
n.(由风吹积而成的)沙丘 | |
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6 flip | |
vt.快速翻动;轻抛;轻拍;n.轻抛;adj.轻浮的 | |
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7 flips | |
轻弹( flip的第三人称单数 ); 按(开关); 快速翻转; 急挥 | |
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n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的 | |
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9 scent | |
n.气味,香味,香水,线索,嗅觉;v.嗅,发觉 | |
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10 remarkable | |
adj.显著的,异常的,非凡的,值得注意的 | |
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11 precisely | |
adv.恰好,正好,精确地,细致地 | |
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12 bumper | |
n.(汽车上的)保险杠;adj.特大的,丰盛的 | |
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13 flipped | |
轻弹( flip的过去式和过去分词 ); 按(开关); 快速翻转; 急挥 | |
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