• 爱吃水果的狐猴的空间记忆力要好

    14-02-24 Food-finding tests in five lemur species show that fruit-eaters may have better spatial memory than lemurs with a more varied diet. The results support the idea that relying on foods that are seasonally available and far-flung gives a competitive ed...

  • 有更好“性生活”的果蝇寿命更长

    13-11-29 Sex may in fact be one of the secrets to good health, youth and a longer life -- at least for fruit flies -- suggests a new University of Michigan study that appears in the journal Science. Male fruit flies that perceived(感知,领会) sexual pherom...

  • The Walnut Tree

    13-10-30 A walnut-tree, which grew by the roadside, bore a plentiful crop of nuts every year. Every one who passed by pelted(攻击或投掷) its branches with sticks and stones, in order to bring down the fruit, and the tree suffered severely. It is hard, it c...

  • 适时舍得

    13-08-29 There once was a master who went to India. In those times, we didn't have the communications or airplanes or many kinds of transportation that we do now. So the master went to India on foot. He had never been to India before; perhaps he came from Pe...

  • 鳄鱼偶尔会吃水果

    13-08-22 It turns out that alligators(短吻鳄) do not live on meat alone. Neither do Nile crocodiles. A new study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society says that the American alligator and a dozen other crocodile species enjoy an occasional taste of frui...

  • 《唐顿庄园》五

    13-08-14 精彩对白 Robert: Busy? Cora: I'm just trying to sort out the wretched flower show. Robert: I've had a letter from Rosamond. Cora: Don't tell me: she wants saddle of lamb and all the fruit and vegetables we can muster. Robert: She enjoys a taste of h...

  • 十句有创意的英文翻译

    13-05-08 The last thing I want to do is to hurt you. But it's still on the list. 直译:在这个世界上,我最不愿意做的事就是伤害你,但是这件事仍在我的考虑之列。 意译:我真不想伤害你,但你也别逼我。 Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting...

  • 运用智慧 适时舍得

    13-04-16 There once was a master who went to India. In those times, we didn't have the communications or airplanes or many kinds of transportation that we do now. So the master went to India on foot. He had never been to India before; perhaps he came from Pe...

  • Charmander & Clefairy's Walk

    13-03-14 One day Charmander and Clefairy were walking in the forest to get fruit, when Charmander remembered that he couldn't reach the fruit trees. Then he saw a fairy flying and he did not know how to get her down from the sky, then he had an idea. If he p...

  • 果蝇基因变化体现出自然选择

    12-10-15 When ancestral humans walked out of Africa tens of thousands of years ago, Drosophila melanogaster(果蝇) fruit flies came along with them. Now the fruit flies, widely used for genetics research, are returning to Africa and establishing new populat...