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 Picture a home big enough to hold four hundred or a home made of nothing but paper.
16 动物建造者 想象一个大到可以容纳四百人的家 或者一个只有纸的家
How about an underground tunnel with rooms to eat and sleep in?
怎么样地下地道 有房间吃饭睡觉?
These are real, amazing structures, but the builders aren’t human.
这些是真实的,令人惊叹的结构,
Many animals build homes for themselves or their young.
许多动物为自己或年幼时建造家园.
Some animals build to protect themselves or to catch prey.
有些动物为了保护自己或捕捉猎物而建立.
Some build to attract a mate.
一些建筑吸引伴侣。
A bowerbird spruces up his bower with a parrot feather—and blue bottle caps.
一只弓鸟用鹦鹉的羽毛 和蓝色的瓶盖把弓鸟往上喷出
To woo females, the male birds first build the bower, then decorate it!
给雌鸟,雄鸟先建弓后再装饰!
Welcome to Tunnel Town Prairie Dog Towns Prairie dog burrows are like real towns.
欢迎来到隧道镇Prairie狗城 帕蕊狗窝就像真正的城镇
Their maze of underground tunnels has different rooms for sleeping, eating, and even going to the bathroom!
他们的地道迷宫 拥有不同的房间 睡觉,吃饭,甚至去浴室!
Family groups stay together in separate areas or “neighborhoods” that include many entrances.
家庭团体在不同的地区或包括许多入口的“邻里”呆在一起。
Prairie dogs spend a lot of time building and fixing their homes.
帕蕊狗花了很多时间建造并修复了自己的家园.
Sociable Weaver Bird Nests The more the merrier for these friendly birds.
社交织物鸟巢 这些友好的鸟越欢快
They build the biggest nests of any birds—their nests can hold up to four hundred birds.
它们建造出任何鸟类的最大巢穴——它们的巢穴可以容纳多达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.
Inside, separate living areas are lined with softer grasses and fibers.
内部,分出活地以柔软的草和纤维为线.
The largest known prairie dog town, in Texas, covered 25,000 square miles (65,000 sq km).
德克萨斯州最大的已知草原狗城面积为25,000平方英里(65,000平方公里).
It was home to as many as 400 million prairie dogs!
那里有多达4亿只草原狗
Prairie dogs are only found in North America.
草原犬只在北美发现.
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.
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”。
More than a decade passed before anyone knew what made them.
10多年前,人们才知道他们是什么。
Termite Mounds Tiny termites can build structures that are taller than three people standing on top of each other!
白蚁花 小白蚁可以搭建高过三个人相上站的建筑!.
They build their mounds from mud, chewed wood, and saliva.
他们从泥地上筑起地丘,咀嚼出木头来,口出口出.
The walls have tiny holes for fresh air.
墙壁有小孔 新鲜空气。
The termite mounds even have a chimney and a cellar.
白蚁丘甚至有烟囱和地窖.
The termites build many storage areas for wood, their main food source.
白蚁们为木材建立了许多储存地,这是他们的主要食物来源.
Pufferfish Circles These male fish create detailed sand art to attract females.
水仙鱼圆 这些雄性鱼类创造了详细的沙子艺术来吸引雌性.
They flap their fins on the seafloor to form a large round pattern.
它们在海底被打出鳍来形成大圆形的图案.
Then, they decorate the outer part of the circle with shells.
然后,它们用贝壳来装饰圈外部分.
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.
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 chamber.
国王和后白蚁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.
Spider Trapdoors These sly spiders dig an underground tunnel, then make a trapdoor in the tunnel to catch prey.
蜘蛛陷阱门 这些狡猾的蜘蛛会挖出一条地道,然后在地道上做个陷阱门来捕捉猎物.
They cover the trapdoor with their silk, and cover that with dirt.
他们用丝绸来盖住捕虫门 用泥土来盖住它
When they hear prey passing above them, they open the door and the prey falls through.
当他们听到猎物从上方经过时,他们打开了门,猎物从上而下.
The door also protects the spiders from animals that hunt them.
门还保护了蜘蛛免受猎取它们的动物.
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” and main paths that connect rooms.
这些巨大的城市有泥土“高速公路”和连接房间的主要道路。
Side roads lead to gardens and trash pits.
边道通向花园和垃圾坑.
Tunnels allow air to flow.
隧道允许空气流出.
These tiny ants lift many times their own weight to build their huge cities.
这些微小的蚂蚁举起它们自己重量的多倍来建造它们巨大的城市.
A trapdoor spider darts from its mossy hiding place.
一个陷阱门蜘蛛飞镖 从它的苔藓藏地。
After humans, leafcutter ants (inset) form the largest communities of any animal on Earth.
在人类之后,叶切蚁(inset)会形成地球上任何动物中最大的群落.
Paper Wasp Nests Paper wasps gather bits of wood and plants.
花蜂收集了木头和植物
They chew them into a pulp, then spit out the pulp to make a soft nest.
他们把它咀嚼成一纸浆,然后吐出纸浆来做软窝.
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 develop in the cells.
黄蜂卵在细胞中发育.
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。
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.
Crayfish Chimneys In order to reach water, some crayfish burrow into moist soil, pushing up wet dirt.
龙虾烟囱 为了到达水面,一些克来鱼会潜入潮湿的土壤,推上湿土.
The raised soil looks like a small chimney.
被抬起的土壤看起来像个小烟囱.
Since the center of the chimney is empty, other animals, such as snakes, sometimes hide there.
由于烟囱的中心是空的,其他动物如蛇有时会藏在那里.
Beaver Dams and Dens If you are “busy as a beaver,” you are very busy.
海狸大坝和丹斯 如果你“忙得像只海狸”,你就很忙。
Beavers are master builders.
海狸是建筑大师
They gather sticks and mud to build their dams.
他们聚集了棍棒和泥土来建造他们的水坝.
The dams create ponds.
大坝会形成池塘.
Beavers build their homes, called dens, on the ponds.
海狸在池塘上建起家来,叫"穴".
The ponds protect beavers from predators.
池塘会保护海狸免受捕食者的侵害.
They also make it easier for beavers to store food during the winter.
它们也使海狸在冬季储存食物更加容易.
Beavers enter their dens by swimming into them, but their living space is built above the water level.
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This keeps the beaver family high and dry!
这让海狸家变得又高又干!
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 use their bodies, natural skills, and the Earth’s resources to build their structures.
他们利用自己的身体、自然技能和地球资源来建立自己的结构。
Animals are amazing!
动物是惊人的!
Glossary builders those who make or (n.)
术语汇编的构建者
construct something from parts (p.
从部件构造一些东西(p.
4) burrows holes dug in the ground by (n.)
4) 在地上挖出洞来被(n.
animals for use as a home (p.
用作家用动物(p.
5) cellar (n.)
5)地窖 (n.
an underground room that is sometimes used for food storage (p.
一个地下房间,有时用来储存食物(p.
7) cells (n.)
7) 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) predators animals that hunt and eat (n.)
12) 捕食和捕食的动物 (n.
other animals to survive (p.
其他动物生存(p.
14) prey (n.)
14)被猎物 (n.
an animal that is hunted and eaten by a predator (p.
被捕食者猎取并吃掉的动物(p.
4) pulp (n.)
4) 纸浆 (n.
a mass of soft, wet material (p.
软湿材料的质量(p.
12) saliva (n.)
12) 唾液 (n.
a liquid in the mouth that mixes with food to help begin digestion; spit (p.
口中液体能与食物相混合来帮助开始消化;吐出(p.
7) silk (n.)
7) 丝绸 (n.
strong threads made by a spider or silkworm (p.
由蜘蛛或丝虫(p.
9) Caddisfly Larvae Cocoons These little larvae use their silk to make cocoons.
9) Caddisfly Larvae 可可 这些小幼虫用它们的丝来做茧.
The larvae add sand, small sticks, even shells to their cocoons to make beautiful artlike cases.
幼虫会把沙子,小棒子,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