Strange Plants
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
When we think about plants, we often think of trees, flowers, and grass.
当我们想到植物时,我们常常会想到树,花和草.
Like most plants, these plants have green leaves.
与大多数植物一样,这些植物有绿叶.
They also have roots growing into the ground.
其根也长入地.
Some plants are not like most plants.
有些植物与大多数植物不同.
This book is about some of these strange plants.
这本书是关于一些这些奇怪的植物.
Plants called air plants live in trees high above the ground.
被称作"空气工厂"的植物生活在地上高高的树木中.
Their roots are not buried in dirt.
其根不埋于地.
Instead, they grow on tree branches.
相反,它们生长在树枝上.
They take moisture from the air, not from the soil as most plants do.
它们从空气中取出水分,而不是从土壤中取出水分,就像大多数植物一样.
Can you imagine plants that eat meat?
你能想象植物吃肉吗?
Well, there are such plants.
有这种植物
They eat insects, spiders, and even some other small animals.
它们会吃昆虫,蜘蛛,甚至一些其他的小动物.
One well-known meat-eating plant is the Venus flytrap.
一种著名的吃肉植物是"金星蝇".
Its leaves look like traps.
它的叶子看起来像陷阱.
They have small spikes along their edges.
沿边有小尖刺.
When a critter walks inside a leaf, the leaf snaps shut.
当动物走入叶子里时,叶子会断裂.
The critter is trapped.
畜生被困.
The sundew is also a meat-eating plant.
向阳杜鹃(学名:Conus sundews)为杜鹃花科杜鹃属下的一个种.
It has many sticky hairs on its surface.
其地表多有粘着的毛被.
Insects landing on it get stuck.
昆虫登陆时会卡住
Then the plant digests the insects.
后被植物消化为昆虫.
The giant sundew plant of Australia even eats small frogs!
澳大利亚的巨型太阳杜鹃花植物甚至会吃小青蛙!.
Some plants steal food from other plants.
一些植物从其他植物中偷取食物.
The dodder plant sends rootlike parts into another plant.
道德植物会把根状的部件送入另一个植物.
It sucks food and water from the plant.
它吸取了植物的食物和水.
It is a parasite.
这是一种寄生虫。
A parasite lives off another living thing.
寄生虫靠另一种活物生存
Many flowers have bad smells that attract insects.
许多花的臭味吸引了昆虫.
The stapelia flower smells like rotting meat.
花被花有腐肉的味道.
Flies like the smell, so they fly into the flower.
苍蝇如出一味,于是飞入花地.
Special powder gets on their bodies.
特别的粉末会沾到他们身上
They take the powder to other flowers.
他们把粉末带到其他花朵去.
The flowers use the powder to make seeds and grow new plants.
花花利用花粉来制作种子并种植出新的植物.
Some plants look like stones.
有些植物看起来像石头
The plants in this picture are called “stone plants” or “living stones.”
图片中的植物被称作"石质植物"或"活生生的石头". “
They live in very hot, dry places.
它们生活在非常炎热干燥的地方.
They hold water very well.
他们把水保存得很好。
Their shape helps to hide them so that animals do not eat them.
它们的形状有助于隐藏它们,使动物不会吃它们.
Some cactus plants are covered with wool-like hairs.
一些仙人掌植物被羊毛状的毛被覆盖.
The “wool” protects them from daytime heat.
“大叫”使他们免于白天发热。
It protects them from nighttime cold.
它能保护她们免于夜冷
The “wool” also helps the cactus plants hold moisture.
“大叫”还有助于仙人掌植物保持水分。
Some plants have animals living inside them.
有些植物体内有活生生的动物.
Ant colonies live inside ant plants.
蚂蚁殖民地生活在蚂蚁植物内.
They use spaces in the plant’s stem as houses.
他们将植物干中的空间用作房屋。
Some spaces are used for raising young ants.
一些空间用于饲养年轻的蚂蚁.
Other spaces are used for garbage.
其他空间用于垃圾.
The ant plant uses some of this garbage for food.
蚂蚁工厂使用一些这种垃圾来做食物.
Some trees and shrubs grow out of solid rock.
有的树木和灌木由固体岩石生长出.
They grow up high where the wind blows strong.
它们在风吹起强势的地方成长
Their roots reach down into small cracks for moisture.
它们的根会伸入出水分的小缝隙
As the roots grow, they split the rock.
随着根的生长,它们会分出岩石.
Glossary attract (v.)
词汇吸引(五)
to draw someone or something near (p.
以画出某个人或某种接近(p.
10) branches (n.)
10)分行 (n.
parts of a tree that grow up and out from the trunk (p.
树上生长出树干(p.
5) digests (v.)
5) 文摘(五.
processes food in the body and turns it into energy (p.
在体内加工出食物并转化为能量(p.
8) moisture (n.)
8) 湿度(n.)
a small amount of water in the form of a liquid or vapor (p.
以液体或蒸汽形式存在的少量水(p.
5) parasite (n.)
(5)寄生虫 (n.
a plant or animal that grows on or feeds off another (p.
在他人身上生长或以他人为食的植物或动物(p.
9) plants (n.)
9) 植物 (n.
living things that make their own food from sunlight and cannot move from place to place on their own (p.
活生生的东西,用阳光做自己的食物,不能自相残杀地移动(p.
3) There are many more kinds of strange plants.
3)还有许多种类的奇异植物.
Bamboo makes noise when it grows.
竹子生长后会发出噪音.
Some Australian orchids grow and flower completely underground.
一些澳大利亚兰花生长并花被完全地下.
There are many amazing plants in the world.
世界上有许多惊人的植物.