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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
It may not the lengdary match-up .. versus1 octopus2. But imagine this fight: sea dwelling3 cone4 snail5 versus tine fish. Who wins? well, true, the fish can .. away but the snail have chemical weapons. So they use ..cocktail6 of compounds and most of them are neural7 toxins8 and they just completed wipe out the preys10 the physiology11 right so the preys cannot respond any more. Helen .. the biologist of the University of Utah, she and her colleagues discovered the cone snail's venom12 contains not only neural toxins but insulins too which the snail's prey9 taken to their gills and that insulin overdose causes the fishes blood suger to plummet13, deprive brain's of engery and inducing a coma14. And that is what happen when you give people the instant overdose. It can cause a coma and then death, depending on the amount of the insulin. They reported the finding in the jounral Proceding of the National Academy of Scienses. If all sound like the some ... munder mystery, well, it is. The paper actually cites the clause ...trail in the 1980s. .. injected wife with insulin and as a consequence of that, she went to insulin shock and end up in a .. coma. That was the prosecusion theory. But proving it to a jury would be a struggle. ..was ultimatly found not guilty. But in the evolutionary15 struggle between snail and fish, it is now clear who has done it and how.
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prep.以…为对手,对;与…相比之下 | |
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n.章鱼 | |
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n.住宅,住所,寓所 | |
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4 cone | |
n.圆锥体,圆锥形东西,球果 | |
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n.蜗牛 | |
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6 cocktail | |
n.鸡尾酒;餐前开胃小吃;混合物 | |
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7 neural | |
adj.神经的,神经系统的 | |
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8 toxins | |
n.毒素( toxin的名词复数 ) | |
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9 prey | |
n.被掠食者,牺牲者,掠食;v.捕食,掠夺,折磨 | |
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10 preys | |
v.掠食( prey的第三人称单数 );掠食;折磨;(人)靠欺诈为生 | |
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11 physiology | |
n.生理学,生理机能 | |
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12 venom | |
n.毒液,恶毒,痛恨 | |
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13 plummet | |
vi.(价格、水平等)骤然下跌;n.铅坠;重压物 | |
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14 coma | |
n.昏迷,昏迷状态 | |
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15 evolutionary | |
adj.进化的;演化的,演变的;[生]进化论的 | |
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