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, bushes, and grass.
当我们想到植物时,我们常常会想到树木,花卉,灌木和草地.
Like most plants, these plants have green leaves and sometimes flowers.
与大多数植物一样,这些植物有绿叶,有时有花.
They also have roots growing into the ground.
其根也长入地.
Gerbera daisies Some plants are different from most other plants.
格尔贝拉菊花 一些植物与其他大多数植物不同.
This book explores what makes some of these strange plants special.
这本书探讨了是什么使得这些奇特的植物变得特殊.
Plants called air plants live in trees high above the ground in North and South America.
被称作"空气工厂"的植物生活在北美和南美地上高高的树木中.
Their roots are not buried in dirt.
其根不埋于地.
Instead, the plants grow on tree branches.
相反,这些植物生长在树枝上.
They take moisture from the air through their leaves.
它们通过叶子从空气中取出水分.
They do not live in soil as most plants do.
他们不像大多数植物那样生活在土壤中。
Air plants growing on swamp trees Can you imagine plants that eat meat?
在沼泽树上生长的空气植物 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.
Like all plants, they use sunlight and water to make their own food.
和所有植物一样,它们使用阳光和水来制作自己的食物.
The animals they “eat” on the side help them grow better, though.
但是,他们边上“吃”的动物帮助他们生长得更好。
One well-known meat-eating plant is the Venus flytrap.
一种著名的吃肉植物是"金星蝇".
This plant lives in moist environments.
这种植物生活在潮湿的环境中.
Its leaves look like traps.
它的叶子看起来像陷阱.
They have small spikes along the edges.
沿边有小尖顶.
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 by the spikes.
畜生被钉子所困.
Fly caught in a Venus flytrap The sundew is another meat-eating plant that lives in moist environments.
被活捉在金星的蝇子圈里 太阳ew(学名:Sundew)是又一所生活在潮湿环境中的食肉植物.
It catches its food in a different way.
它以不同的方式捕取食物。
Sticky hairs on its surface smell sweet.
其地表有粘性毛发有甜味.
Insects attracted to the smell land and get stuck.
被闻道所吸引的昆虫被卡住
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 lives on many continents but is most common in North and South America.
道德活地植物分布于多大洲,但在北美洲和南美洲最为常见.
It sends slender rootlike stems into another plant and sucks food and water from the plant.
它会把苗条状的根发芽到另一个植物中去 并吸食植物的食物和水
The dodder plant is a parasite— a living thing that lives off another living thing.
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Dodder plant Many flowers have bad smells that attract insects.
多德德工厂 许多花的臭味吸引了昆虫.
The stapelia flower, also called the “carrion flower,” smells like rotting meat.
花序花被也叫作"烧烤花"(carrion flowers),有腐肉味.
On hot days, the odor is noticeable from about 1.
在炎热的日子里,气味从大约一分就明显了.
6 kilometers (1 mi.)
6公里(1海里)
away.
离开。
Flies like the smell, so they fly into the flower.
苍蝇如出一味,于是飞入花地.
Special powder called “pollen” gets on their bodies.
称为“波伦”的特殊粉末会进入他们的体内。
They carry the powder to other flowers.
他们把粉末带到了其他花上
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 such as South Africa.
它们生活在南非等非常炎热干燥的地方.
They hold water very well because the biggest part of each plant lives underground.
因为每个植物中最大的部分都生活在地下,所以它们保存的水非常好。
These plants usually have only two leaves.
这些植物通常只有两叶.
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.
Stone plants Some cactus plants are covered with wool-like hairs.
石器厂 一些仙人掌植物被羊毛状的毛被覆盖.
These plants come from the Andes Mountains in South America.
这些植物出自南美洲的安第斯山脉.
The “wool” protects them from daytime heat and nighttime cold.
“大叫”使他们免于白天发热和夜晚发冷。
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 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
The wind can blow seeds into small cracks in the rock.
风能将种子吹入岩石上的小裂缝.
Then the seeds start to grow.
后出出种子起发.
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.
Tree roots growing in rock Some plants have animals living inside them.
在岩石上生长的树根 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.
The ants protect the plant from animals that would eat it.
蚂蚁会保护植物免受动物的侵袭
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.
There are many more kinds of strange plants.
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.
Bat plants have fruit that looks like bats hanging upside down from the flowers.
蝙蝠植物的果实 看起来像蝙蝠从花朵上倒吊
There are many amazing plants in the world.
世界上有许多惊人的植物.