首先我想重申一下这个英文趣闻精选系列的初衷，学习英语的过程本身是很枯燥的，为了激发我们的兴趣和放松我们的大脑，我们应该有意识地寻找一些有意思的题材，就能达到调节节奏和“苦中作乐”的目的。并且能够深刻的理解和消化我们读过的东西并学以致用，这也是很有成就感的事情，因此我会进行朗读和简单的解析而不是囫囵吞枣地一带而过。
很多人家里都养猫猫或者狗狗，即使没有养过，相信大家也都看到过猫猫或者狗狗喝水。不知道大家有没注意过他们到底是怎么把水送到口中的。最近有一项研究详细展示了猫猫和狗狗喝水的过程一流范文网，原来他们喝水的方式竟然完全不同，让人大开眼界。
在这里物业经理人，我会对这篇英文研究文章进行朗读和简单的解析，感兴趣的读者可以阅读并点击收听。
以下是原文以及解析。
Even if you don't own a cat you've probably seen one lap up a bowl of milk. Exactly how our feline friends go about doing it has been a scientific mystery, until now: The journal Science has published the conclusive study of how cats drink.
How can we go about solving this problem?
It turns out that trying to capture cat-drinking on film is a bit harder than you might expect."You don't induce the cat to drink; you just wait until the cat decides to drink," says Roman Stocker, an author of the study and an associate professor at MIT who specializes in fluid mechanics. Stocker and his colleagues spent hours filming -- or trying to film -- cats lapping.
"The nice thing about it is that the cat laps with an impressive frequency of four times per second, so if you catch only a few seconds of lapping you have many laps," Stocker explains.Watching in slow motion reveals that cats of all sizes, from tabbies to tigers, have a very elaborate way of drinking. First, they move the tip of their tongue onto the surface of the water to flick the water up so that a little jet of liquid flies into the air. Then, in a flash, they catch the jet in their mouth.
形容词时：/ɪˈlæbərɪt/，指的是detailed，这也是本文里的意思。请仔细留意音频里我的读法。动词时：/ɪˈlæbəˌreɪt /钓鱼网，指的是to work out carefully or minutely（这里的“minute”跟你印象中的“分钟”不论是从发音上来讲，还是从意义上来讲都是不一样的哟，详细解释请关注我之后的《英语发音系列》）What's more, when the researchers crunched the numbers, they found the cats had it down.
My son is a piano prodigy who gets all of his scales and arpeggios down pat.
(跟之前的jet一样，pat也有很多意思起步网校贝语网校，敬请关注我之后的《英语词汇系列)
"They really know how to do it perfectly, almost as if they're doing the equations in their head," says Pedro Reis, a co-author of the study and assistant professor at MIT.The whole system is much more elaborate than that of dogs, who simply scoop up the water with their tongues.
这里还有一个简短的视频可以让我们更清晰地看出他们的不同。 |
