What Built This?
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents Animal Builders.
目录 动物构建者.
4 Prairie Dog Towns.
4个帕赖里狗镇.
5 Sociable Weaver Bird Nests.
5个可社交织物鸟巢.
6 Termite Mounds.
(原始内容存档于2019-10-12). 6 Termite Munds.
7 Pufferfish Circles.
7 普活鱼圆.
8 Spider Trapdoors.
8个蜘蛛陷阱门。
9 Underground Ant City.
9 地下蚂蚁城.
10 Paper Wasp Nests.
(原始内容存档于2018-09-29). 10 Paper Wasp Nests.
12 Crayfish Chimneys.
12 Crayfish烟囱.
13 Beaver Dams and Dens.
13海狸坝与登斯.
14 Watch Them Build.
14 观察Them Build.
15 Glossary.
15 词汇。
16 Animal Builders Not all builders are human.
16 动物建造者 并非所有建筑者都是人类.
Some builders are animals!
有些建筑工是动物!
They build homes for themselves and their young.
他们为自己和年轻人建造家园。
They build for protection and to catch prey.
它们为了保护和捕捉猎物而建造。
Take a look at what animals build.
看看动物的构造
Male bowerbirds first build the bower for females, then decorate it!
雄性弓鸟先为雌性建造弓鸟后再装饰!.
Prairie Dog Towns A maze of prairie dog tunnels is like a real town.
帕赖里狗镇 草原狗地道的迷宫就像一个真正的小镇.
The underground tunnels have different rooms for sleeping and eating.
地道有不同的入睡和入食房间.
Family groups stay together in “neighborhoods.”
家庭团体在“邻里”里呆在一起。 “
They come and go through many entrances.
他们来来去 穿过许多入口。
Sociable Weaver Bird Nests These friendly birds like a large crowd.
社交织物鸟巢 这些友好的鸟类像一大群人
Their nests can hold up to four hundred birds.
它们的巢可活到400只鸟.
They use large sticks and dry grass for the nest’s roof and sides.
他们使用大棒和干草来做巢的屋顶和侧面.
The inside is lined with softer grasses.
内有柔软花草.
Sociable weavers live in southern Africa.
社会上可织造者生活在南部非洲。
Their nests help protect them from hot and cold outside temperatures.
它们的巢能保护它们免受外出温度的炎热和寒冷.
several entrances.
有几个入口
listen for predators.
听食肉动物。
near the surface.
靠近地表 靠近地表 靠近地表
throughout the burrow.
整个洞穴。
underground.
地铁
Welcome to Tunnel Town Prairie dogs are only found in North America.
欢迎来到Tunnel Town Prairie犬只在北美发现.
Termite Mounds Tiny termites can build mounds that are taller than three people standing on top of each other!
白蚁花 小白蚁可以建造比三个站相上方的人高的地丘!
They build their mounds with mud and chewed wood.
他们用泥土和咀嚼的木头来建地丘.
The walls have tiny holes for fresh air.
墙壁有小孔 新鲜空气。
Pufferfish Circles These male fish make sand art to attract females.
水仙鱼圆 这些雄性鱼会制作沙子艺术来吸引雌性.
They form a large round pattern on the seafloor and decorate the circle with shells.
它们形成海底的大圆形图案并用贝壳来装饰圆圈.
If a female likes the circle, she lays her eggs in the middle.
如果雌性喜欢圆形,她会在中间产卵.
Ocean divers first noticed “mystery circles” in 1995, near Japan.
海洋潜水员于1995年在日本附近首次注意到“神秘圆圈”。
One Queen, 165 Million Eggs!
一个皇后,一亿六千五百万鸡蛋!
The king and queen termite live in a special room.
国王和白蚁女王住在一个特殊的房间里.
The queen can produce thousands of eggs per day and can live up to age forty-five.
后人可以每天出产上千个鸡蛋并可以活到45岁.
Worker termites carry her young to a nursery room where they are fed until they are adults.
工人白蚁把她的幼年带到一个育婴室,在那里喂他们到成年为止。
A termite mound stands tall in western Africa.
西部非洲有一块白蚁丘高起.
After humans, leafcutter ants (inset) form the largest communities on Earth.
在人类之后,叶切蚁(inset)形成了地球上最大的群落.
Spider Trapdoors These sly spiders dig an underground tunnel and make a trapdoor on top.
蜘蛛陷阱门 这些狡猾的蜘蛛在地道上挖地道,并在上面做一个陷阱门.
They cover the trapdoor with their silk, and then cover that with dirt.
他们用丝绸来遮住捕虫门 然后用泥土来遮住它
When prey passes above them, they open the door and the prey falls through.
当猎物从上方经过时,它们会打开门而被猎物掉入.
Underground Ant City Millions of ants work together to build underground ant cities.
地下蚁城上百万蚂蚁携手建设地下蚁城.
These giant cities have dirt “highways” that connect rooms.
这些巨大的城市有连接房间的土 “高速公路”。
Side roads lead to gardens and trash pits.
边道通向花园和垃圾坑.
A trapdoor spider sneaks from its hiding place to grab a passing beetle.
一只捕虫门蜘蛛从它的藏身地偷偷地抓住了一只经过的甲虫.
Paper Wasp Nests Paper wasps chew bits of wood and plants to make a soft nest.
纸蜂巢 纸蜂咀嚼被咬的木和植物来做软巢.
The nest is made up of cells that look like an egg carton.
巢由外观为卵箱的细胞所组成.
Wasp eggs grow in the cells.
黄蜂卵生长在细胞中.
As the wasps grow in number, the nest gets bigger.
随着黄蜂数量的增长,巢会变大.
Paper wasp nests come in a variety of shapes and styles.
纸黄蜂巢有多种形状和风格.
Little Ants, Big City Researchers found a huge, empty underground city in Brazil, once the home of leafcutter ants.
小蚂蚁,大城市 研究人员在巴西发现了一个巨大的,空荡荡的地下城市,曾经是落叶蚁的家园.
In order to build their home, each insect would have carried loads of earth more than half a mile (0.
为了建造家园,每只昆虫都会携带超过半英里(0.
8 km)—over and over.
8公里)——再过一次.
In total, the ants moved around 45 tons (40 mt) of soil to create their network of tunnels.
蚂蚁总共移动了大约45吨(40公吨)的土壤来创建地道网络.
Ants at Work A cross-section shows how deep and wide this ant structure is.
工作中的蚂蚁 一个横截面显示这个蚂蚁结构有多深和宽.
Researchers stand above and beside a leafcutter city in Brazil.
研究人员站在巴西一个花生城市的上边。
Beavers enter their dens by swimming into them (top).
海狸们通过游入它们的巢穴(上部)而进入它们的巢穴.
The living portion, though, is built above the water level.
活地部分虽然建于水位上方.
This keeps the beaver family high and dry!
这让海狸家变得又高又干!
A beaver carries mud to build its dam (bottom).
海狸会携带泥土来建造它的水坝(底部).
Crayfish Chimneys Crayfish dig into moist soil to reach water.
克来鱼烟囱(Crayfish Chamneys Crayfish)从湿土中挖出来去取水.
The dirt they push up looks like a small chimney.
他们推起的泥土看起来像个小烟囱.
Other animals, such as snakes, sometimes hide in the empty chimney.
其他动物如蛇有时会躲入空烟囱.
Beaver Dams and Dens Busy beavers use sticks and mud to build their dams.
海狸坝和登斯活塞海狸用棍子和泥来建造他们的水坝.
The dams make ponds.
大坝作塘.
Beavers build their homes, called dens, in the ponds.
海狸在池塘里建造了他们的家园,叫"穴".
The ponds protect the beavers from other animals.
池塘会保护海狸免受其他动物的伤害.
Crayfish (also known as crawfish) breathe with gills.
克来鱼(又名克来鱼)用 gi来呼吸.
Gills must remain wet, which is why crayfish burrow down in search of water.
吉尔斯必须保持湿润,这就是为什么为找取水而凿下克来鱼.
Watch Them Build Animals build great things.
观察Them Building Animals 建造出伟大的东西.
They do not need tools to build.
他们不需要工具。
They just use their bodies and the Earth around them.
他们只是利用自己的身体和周围的地球.
Animals are amazing!
动物是惊人的!
Glossary builders (n.)
词汇构建者(n.)
those who make or construct something from parts (p.
制造或构筑部件(p.
4) cells (n.)
4) 细胞 (n.
six-sided cups that form honeycomb, hives, or insect nests (p.
形成蜂窝,蜂窝,或昆虫巢(p.
12) entrances (n.)
12)出入口(n.
openings or entryways to a place (p.
打开或进入一个地方(p.
5) prey (n.)
5) 猎物 (n.
an animal that is hunted and eaten (p.
被猎取并被吃掉的动物(p.
4) protection (n.)
4) 保护(不详)
defense from harm or danger (p.
防御损害或危险(p.
4) silk (n.)
4)丝(n.
strong threads made by a spider or silkworm (p.
由蜘蛛或丝虫(p.
9) Caddisfly Cocoons These little insects use their silk to make cocoons.
9) 蝴蝶茧 这些小昆虫用它们的丝来做茧.
They add sand, small sticks, even shells to their cocoons to make beautiful artlike cases.
它们会把沙子,小棍子,甚至贝壳加入到它们的茧中来做出美丽的艺术类的病例.
A black-tailed prairie dog looks out of its burrow.
一只黑尾草原狗从它的地窖里看出来