新概念英语词汇随身听第三册(附字幕)[53-54]

[06:46.02]Lesson 54
[06:47.80]insect
[06:49.42]昆虫
[06:51.04]We have been brought up to fear insects.
[06:53.56]我们自幼惧怕昆虫。
[06:56.08]Insects buzzled all around,and the sound of wild animals could Be heard at a distance.
[07:00.01]小虫在四周鸣叫，远处传来野兽的叫声。
[07:03.94]Ants are another group of insects and have powerful chemical defenses.
[07:07.21]蚂蚁是另一群拥有强大的自卫性化学武器的社会昆虫。
[07:10.47]wage
[07:11.90]进行（斗争）
[07:13.32]We continually wage war on them,for they contaminate our food,
[07:16.74]人类不断地同昆虫斗争，因为他们污染食物
[07:20.16]arry diseases,or devour our crops.
[07:22.68]传播疾病，吞噬庄稼。
[07:25.20]The new government has pledged itself to wage a war against poverty and disease.
[07:29.33]新的政府发誓开展一场消灭贫困和疾病的斗争。
[07:33.46]contaminate
[07:35.58]弄脏，污染
[07:37.69]Large areas of land have been contaminated by the leakage from the nuclear reactor.
[07:41.66]大片地区都被核反应堆的泄漏物污染了。
[07:45.63]The drinking water was contaminated by the gasoline.
[07:48.56]饮用水被汽油污染了。
[07:51.48]provocation
[07:53.06]挑衅，激怒
[07:54.64]They sting or bite without provocation;
[07:57.06]它们的无缘无故地对人又叮又咬；夏天，到了晚上，
[07:59.48]they fly uninvited our rooms on summer nights,or beat against our lighted windows.
[08:03.70]还自说自话地飞到我们的房间里，或才者对着亮灯的窗户乱扑乱撞。
[08:07.92]He has a short temper and flares up at the slightest provocation.
[08:11.00]他是个急脾气，一触即跳。
[08:14.08]It is true that the wolf bit her,
[08:16.16]狼是咬了她，
[08:18.23]but it was acting under severe provocation she was hurting its babies.
[08:21.92]但它是受到严重挑衅的情况下咬的，谁叫她伤害小狗呢。
[08:25.60]spider
[08:27.02]蜘蛛
[08:28.45]We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps,
[08:32.42]我们在日常生活中不但憎恶蜘蛛，蜜蜂之类让人讨厌的昆虫，
[08:36.39]but of quite harmless ones like months.
[08:38.91]而且憎恶飞蛾这种无害的昆虫。
[08:41.43]Insects,the main diet of most spiders,usually are captured in silken webs.
[08:45.51]昆虫是蜘蛛的主要食物，通常用丝网捕虫。
[08:49.58]The jumping spider and the wolf spider chase and pounce upon their prey
[08:53.11]跳蛛和狼蛛潜近猎物并且猛扑过去
[08:56.63]while the crab spider awaits its prey in flowers.
[08:59.57]蟹蛛则在花丛中等候猎物
[09:02.51]wasp
[09:04.24]黄蜂
[09:05.96]Adult wasps feed primarily on nectar,
[09:08.53]黄蜂成虫以花蜜为食，
[09:11.11]but their larvae feed on insects provided by the female parent.
[09:14.58]但幼虫以母体提供的昆虫为食。
[09:18.05]There are more than 20000 known species of wasps,
[09:21.08]已知的黄峰有20000种，
[09:24.11]the vast majority of which are solitary in habit.
[09:26.78]绝大部分为独栖。
[09:29.44]moth
[09:30.91]飞蛾
[09:32.37]Moths are night-flying insects which are attracted by light.
[09:35.45]飞蛾是在夜间活动的昆虫，常扑向灯光。
[09:38.53]Like those of butterflies,the wings,bodies,and legs of moths
[09:41.76]飞蛾与蝴蝶一样，翅、体、足
[09:44.99]are covered with dustlike scales.
[09:47.21]均附有触即落的粉末状鳞片。
[09:49.43]ant
[09:50.85]蚂蚁
[09:52.27]Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society
[09:55.76]即使知道勤奋的蚂蚁生活在具有高度组织性的社会里，
[09:59.25]does nothing to prevent as from being filled with revulsion
[10:02.17]每次看到大群蚂蚁在我们精心准备的午间野餐上
[10:05.10]when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch.
[10:08.64]爬行时，我们仍然无法抑制对它们的反感。
[10:12.18]There are generally there castes of ants.queens,males and workers.
[10:15.76]蚂蚁分为蚁后，雄蚁、工蚁三级。
[10:19.34]The social behaviour of the ants,along with that of the honeybees.
[10:22.12]蚂蚁和蜜蜂的社会性行为
[10:24.90]is the most complex in the insect world.
[10:27.38]在昆虫中是最复杂的。
[10:29.86]revulsion
[10:31.44]厌恶
[10:33.03]He had a revulsion against his neighbor.
[10:35.45]他对邻居非常反感。
[10:37.88]The violent scenes filled the audience with revulsion.
[10:40.72]这些暴力的场面使观众很反感。
[10:43.55]horde
[10:45.08]群
[10:46.61]Hordes of children are running around the spring.
[10:49.23]大群大群的孩子绕着喷泉奔跑。
[10:51.86]Hordes of bees gather in the rose bush.
[10:54.38]一群群的蜜蜂在玫瑰丛中聚集。
[10:56.90]uncanny
[10:58.63]神秘的，不可思议的
[11:00.35]No mater how much we like honey,
[11:02.57]不管我们多么爱吃蜂蜜，
[11:04.79]or how much we have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess,
[11:08.42]或者读过多少关于蜜蜂具有神奇的识别方向能力的书，
[11:12.05]we have a horror of being stung.
[11:14.27]我们仍然害怕被蜂蛰。
[11:16.49]A friend of mine has an uncanny psychological discernment.
[11:19.47]我有个朋友对人的心理有不可思议的洞察力。
[11:22.45]erase
[11:23.89]抹，抹去
[11:25.32]Most of our fears are unreasonable,but they are impossible to erase.
[11:28.50]我们的恐惧大部分是没有道理的，但却无法消除。
[11:31.67]Nothing can erase from her mind the memory of the war.
[11:34.70]没什么东西能够把战争从她的记忆里抹去。