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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
She chews its tail first, to make sure the fish can't get away. While the pups are still demanding milk, the mother otter1 will often keep the whole fish for herself. Her pups are happy enough with caviar.
As the flow becomes slow enough for the trout2 to lay eggs, there is a brief window of opportunity to spawn3 before the river gets too shallow to swim upstream. The female digs a trough with sinuous4 flicks5 of her body. And the attending male fertilizes6 the eggs as they are laid. Millions of new lives.
It's now early July. And what looks like more snow is actually a blizzard7 of seeds and insects. There is more life in the park now than at
any other time of the year. It's a turning point in the summer. Through the coming month, the days will get hotter and drier. The plants will grow less vigorously, and the pace of summer will slow.
The meadows are not so welcoming now. The grass becomes less nourishing as it puts its energy into seeds and roots.
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1 otter | |
n.水獭 | |
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2 trout | |
n.鳟鱼;鲑鱼(属) | |
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3 spawn | |
n.卵,产物,后代,结果;vt.产卵,种菌丝于,产生,造成;vi.产卵,大量生产 | |
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4 sinuous | |
adj.蜿蜒的,迂回的 | |
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5 flicks | |
(尤指用手指或手快速地)轻击( flick的第三人称单数 ); (用…)轻挥; (快速地)按开关; 向…笑了一下(或瞥了一眼等) | |
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6 fertilizes | |
n.施肥( fertilize的名词复数 )v.施肥( fertilize的第三人称单数 ) | |
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7 blizzard | |
n.暴风雪 | |
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