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.
We think about organisms that have stems, leaves, roots, and sometimes flowers.
我们想的生物 已经生出,叶子,根, 有时花。
Most plants, such as the ones in this photograph, have roots that grow into the ground.
多数植物,如这张照片中的植物, 有根生长在地上。
Gerbera daisies While most plants have these four basic components, some plants are different.
格尔贝拉菊花 虽然大多数植物都有这四个基本成分,但有些植物是不同的.
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 near ponds, streams, rivers, and swamps in North and South America.
被叫作"空气工厂"的植物生活在地上高高的树木中,靠近北美和南美的池塘,溪流,河流和沼泽地.
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 all their nutrients and moisture from the air, through their leaves.
它们通过叶子从空气中取出所有的营养和水分.
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 carnivorous, or meat- eating, plants?
在沼泽树上生长的空气植物 你能想象食肉还是吃肉 植物吗?
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” help them grow better because these plants live in places where the soil doesn’t supply enough nutrients.
这些植物生活在土壤营养不足的地方,
One well-known meat-eating plant is the Venus flytrap, which lives in moist environments.
一种著名的吃肉植物是活在潮湿环境中的金星蝇子.
Its leaves look like traps.
它的叶子看起来像陷阱.
The traps have small trigger hairs on the inside.
捕虫笼内部有小的扳机发.
When a critter walks inside a leaf and brushes against the trigger hairs, the leaf snaps shut.
当一个畜生走入一朵叶子并刷出起扳机的毛发时,叶子会被扣住.
The critter is then trapped.
畜生被困住
Fly caught in a Venus flytrap The sundew, another meat-eating plant that lives in moist environments, catches its food in a different way.
被活捉在金星的蝇子圈里 日地黄是另一种生活在湿润环境中的食肉植物,以不同的方式捕取其食物.
It has many sticky hairs on its surface that smell sweet.
其表面多有粘性发型,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, which can grow to 1 meter (3.
澳大利亚的巨型太阳杜鹃花植物,可生长到1米(3.
28 ft.)
28平方英尺)
tall, even eats small frogs!
高,甚至吃小青蛙!
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.
它会把苗条状的根子 发芽到另一个植物中
These stems are pale green, yellow, or bright orange and are easy to see against the host plant.
这些茎为苍绿色,黄色或亮橙色,很容易被看到与宿主植物相对抗.
The dodder sucks food and water from the plant.
道德从植物上吸取食物和水.
It is a parasite—a living thing that lives off another living thing.
它是一种寄生虫——一种活生生的生物,它靠另一种活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活
When a dodder plant attaches to a host plant, its connection to the soil dies.
当一多德植物附着在一宿主植物上时,它与土壤的连接会死亡.
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,” emits an odor of rotting meat.
花序花又叫"烧烤花"出出一股腐肉味.
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。
The flower has a pattern that looks like dead animals.
花有外观为已死动物的图案.
Flies are attracted to the pattern and the smell, so they fly into the flower.
苍蝇被图案和气味所吸引,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 rocks.
有些植物看起来像石头
The plants in the photograph above are called “stone plants” or “living stones.”
以上照片中的植物被称作"石头"或"活石". “
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。
They rarely grow more than 2.
它们的生长很少超过2个.
5 centimeters (1 in.)
5厘米(1英寸).
above the ground and have only two leaves.
在地上,只有两叶。
Once each year, these plants usually grow a white or yellow flower.
每年一次,这些植物通常会长出一朵白色或黄色花.
Their shape helps to hide them so animals do not eat them.
它们的形状有助于隐藏它们 所以动物不会吃它们。
Stone plants Some cactus plants are covered with wool- like hairs.
石器厂 有些仙人掌植物被羊毛覆盖 就像毛发一样
These plants come from Bolivia and Peru, high in the Andes Mountains of South America.
这些植物出自于玻利维亚和秘鲁,在南美洲安第斯山脉高地.
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.
When rain gets into the cracks, the seeds start to grow.
当雨水进入裂缝后,种子开始生长.
Their roots reach down into small cracks for moisture.
它们的根会伸入出水分的小缝隙
Once the roots are stable, the plants grow leaves to absorb sunlight and are then able to keep growing.
一旦根部稳定后,植物会生长出叶子来吸收阳光,然后能够继续生长.
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 within ant plants.
蚂蚁聚居地生活在蚂蚁植物中.
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
The ants use natural cavities, or spaces, in the plant’s stem as houses.
蚂蚁将植物干地的自然腔或空间用作房屋。
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 and to spread its seeds.
蚂蚁工厂利用这些垃圾中的一些来做食物并播下种子.
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
Some ghost plants have white flowers that seem to appear out of nowhere.
一些幽灵植物有白色花朵,似乎从一无所出.
There are many amazing plants in the world.
世界上有许多惊人的植物.