Life Cycle
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents The Life Cycle.
生活周期目录。
4 Egg.
4个蛋。
5 Pupa.
5 (英语). Pupa.
9 Adult Butterfly.
9个成人蝴蝶.
11 Glossary.
11 词汇表。
16 The Life Cycle A monarch butterfly has four stages in its life cycle.
16 生命周期 君主蝴蝶的生命周期有四个阶段.
They are egg, caterpillar, pupa, and adult.
它们是蛋、毛虫、小狗和成年人。
A butterfly’s body goes through big changes at each stage in its development.
蝴蝶的身体在发展的每一阶段都会经历巨大的变化.
Egg A female monarch butterfly lays an oval-shaped egg on the bottom of a leaf.
鸡蛋 雌性君主蝴蝶将一个椭圆形的卵子放入叶子下方.
She might lay several hundred eggs in her lifetime.
她一生中可能会产出几百个蛋
A caterpillar, or larva, grows inside the tiny egg.
毛毛虫,或作幼虫,生长于小卵内.
The egg hatches in three to twelve days.
鸡蛋在三到十二天内孵出.
A young caterpillar hatches from its egg.
一只幼毛虫从蛋里孵出
A female monarch butterfly usually lays only one egg on a leaf.
女性君主蝴蝶通常只将一卵放入一叶上.
The hungry caterpillar eats constantly.
饥饿的毛虫经常吃.
It needs a lot of food to grow.
它需要大量的食物来生长.
First, the caterpillar eats its own eggshell.
首先,毛虫会吃自己的蛋壳.
It also eats any other eggs on the same leaf.
也吃同叶上的任何其他卵.
Then, the caterpillar eats the leaf it is on.
然后,毛虫吃掉它上面的叶子。
Caterpillars don’t drink.
毛虫不喝酒。
They get all the water they need from their food.
他们从食物里得到所有需要的水.
The caterpillar grows quickly, but its skin does not grow.
毛虫生长很快,但其皮肤没有生长.
The caterpillar’s old skin splits and peels away in a process called molting.
毛毛虫的老皮肤在被取出被叫作"倒地"的过程中分出并剥去.
The caterpillar will shed its old skin many times in this stage.
毛毛虫在这个舞台上会多次出出旧皮.
The time between each molting is called an instar.
每次闪烁之间的时间被称为"恒星".
The caterpillar puts down sticky silk.
毛毛虫放出粘丝.
The silk keeps the old skin in place while the caterpillar wiggles out of it.
丝能把旧的皮肤固定在原地,而毛毛虫会摇出它.
New skin is under the old skin.
新皮为旧皮下.
It is soft at first but soon hardens.
它一开始很柔软,但很快就变硬了。
The caterpillar sheds its skin four to six times and eats the old skin each time.
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The caterpillar grows for two to four weeks.
毛虫会长出两到四个星期
The more it eats, the more it can grow after each molting.
其吃得越多,每次摩克后能生长得越多.
The caterpillar’s bright black and yellow colors warn animals that they will get sick if they eat it.
毛毛虫的明亮的黑黄相色警告动物,如果吃了会生病.
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
Monarch caterpillars only eat the leaves of the milkweed plant.
蒙纳克毛虫只吃奶草植物的叶子.
Pupa When the caterpillar is grown, it hangs from a branch to prepare for the biggest change of all.
Pu 毛毛虫生长后,会从树枝上挂起来为最大的变化做准备.
It molts one last time.
最后一次变了
The new skin is bright green and resembles a leaf.
新外皮为明绿色并类似一叶.
The caterpillar’s skin splits down its back like a zipper!
毛毛虫的皮肤像拉链一样从背上分出来!
This green skin hardens around the caterpillar to protect it from predators as it changes inside.
这种绿色的皮肤会硬化 在毛毛虫周围 保护它免受捕食动物的伤害 当它内部的变化。
The caterpillar becomes a pupa, or chrysalis (KRI-suh-lus).
毛虫会变成一头小毛虫,或叫克赖萨利斯(KRI-suh-lus).
It will stay inside its shell for one to two weeks.
它会在外壳里呆一到两周
During this time, its body is completely transformed.
在此期间,其身体被彻底转变.
The green color helps the caterpillar hide from other animals.
绿色能帮助毛毛虫躲避其他动物.
Adult Butterfly An adult butterfly emerges from the shell.
成人蝴蝶 一只成年蝴蝶从外壳中出现.
Its wet wings are folded against its body.
它的湿翅膀被折叠到身体上.
The butterfly breathes in air to make its body bigger.
蝴蝶在空气中呼吸使其身体变大.
Then, the shell splits so the butterfly can climb out.
然后,外壳分裂,使蝴蝶能爬出.
The butterfly must hang upside down to rest and gain strength, or it will not be able to fly.
蝴蝶必须倒挂去休息并获得力量,否则将无法飞行.
Blood pumping into the wings causes them to unfold and spread out.
血液向翅膀中抽出 会导致它们展开和扩散
While the butterfly hangs, it pushes blood into its wings.
蝴蝶挂起时会把血液推入翅膀.
The butterfly hangs for several hours.
蝴蝶挂了几个小时
The sun and air dry its delicate wings.
阴阳相干其微妙之翼.
A butterfly has two pairs of wings that are covered in scales.
蝴蝶有两对被鳞片覆盖的翅膀.
The wings in the front often have a slightly different pattern from the pair in the back.
前部的翅膀往往与后部的相对有略微不同的图案.
When a butterfly rests, it holds its wings up.
当蝴蝶倒地时 它会举起翅膀
The colors on the wings are usually similar to each other.
翅膀上的颜色通常相近.
Most monarch butterfly wings are about 4 inches (10 cm) from tip to tip.
大多数君主蝶翼从尖到尖相相距约4英寸(10厘米).
Once the butterfly is able to fly, it flies off to eat.
蝴蝶一能飞 就飞去吃东西
Unlike a caterpillar, a butterfly does not eat leaves.
与毛虫不同,蝴蝶不吃叶.
Instead it sips nectar from flowers.
反而从花中吸取花蜜
It also searches for a mate.
它也寻找一个伴侣。
Monarch butterflies drink nectar, a sweet liquid made by plants, with a long tongue shaped like a tube.
蒙纳克蝴蝶会饮用花蜜,是一种由植物所制成的甜味液体,长舌形似管状.
Adult butterflies do not grow.
成年蝴蝶不会长出.
They conserve their energy for flying and laying eggs.
它们保存了飞行和产卵的能量.
Females are usually bigger than males and have wider stripes on their wings.
雌性通常比雄性大,翅膀上有更宽的条纹.
The last monarchs of the season will migrate, or move, to a warmer place in the late summer.
季后期的君主会迁徙,或迁移到夏季后期更温暖的地方.
These few butterflies will survive the winter until they can return home and find a mate.
这几只蝴蝶会活到冬天,直到他们能回家并找到配偶.
A monarch butterfly usually lives for two to six weeks.
君主蝴蝶一般活了两到六周.
After she finds a mate, the female lays her eggs and starts the butterfly life cycle all over again.
在她找到伴侣后,雌鸟会产下卵并重新开始蝴蝶生命周期.
A female monarch butterfly may lay 400 to 500 eggs in her lifetime!
女君主蝴蝶一生可能产出400到500个卵!
Glossary larva (n.)
词汇:幼虫 (n.
the young form of an animal that goes through major body changes before it looks like an adult member of its kind (p.
幼体动物在看起来像同类的成年成员之前会经历重大的身体变化(p.
5) life cycle (n.)
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