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Which of these organisms has the most known species?

下列生物中，目前已知哪个物种最多？

Birds, spiders, grass or cockroaches¹?

鸟、蜘蛛、草还是蟑螂？

Scientists believe there are more than 45,000 species of spiders out there.

科学家认为，世界上有超过4.5万种蜘蛛。

What does a spider web sound like? We don't know.

蜘蛛网听起来像什么声音？我们不知道。

But to help understand the creatures better, how they build their webs, how they communicate,

但为了帮助更好地了解这种生物，比如它们如何织网，如何交流等，

scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently conducted an experiment.

麻省理工学院的科学家最近进行了一项实验。

They scan spider webs with a laser. They use the scans to create a 3D computer model of the web.

他们用激光扫描了蜘蛛网。他们用扫描来创造蜘蛛网的3D计算机模型。

Then they used artificial intelligence to assign musical note to the strands² of the web.

之后，他们使用人工智能将音符分配为蜘蛛网的丝线。

When those virtual notes were played together, here's what they sounded like.

这些虚拟音符一起演奏时，它们的声音是这样的。

An MIT engineering professor calls it unusual and eerie³ and scary but ultimately beautiful.

麻省理工学院一名工程学教授称这声音不同寻常、怪异、可怕，但最后是美好的。

He adds, researchers maybe learning to speak the language of the spider and hopes this will lead to better communication with arachnids.

他补充表示，研究人员可能会学习蜘蛛的语言，并希望这将有助于更好地与蛛形纲动物交流。

1 cockroaches   

n.蟑螂( cockroach的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• At night, the cockroaches filled the house with their rustlings. 夜里，屋里尽是蟑螂窸窸瑟瑟的声音。 来自辞典例句
• It loves cockroaches, and can keep a house clear of these hated insects. 它们好食蟑螂，可以使住宅免除这些讨厌昆虫的骚扰。 来自百科语句

2 strands   

n.（线、绳、金属线、毛发等的）股( strand的名词复数 )；缕；海洋、湖或河的)岸；（观点、计划、故事等的）部份v.使滞留，使搁浅( strand的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Twist a length of rope from strands of hemp. 用几股麻搓成了一段绳子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She laced strands into a braid. 她把几股线编织成一根穗带。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 eerie   

adj.怪诞的；奇异的；可怕的；胆怯的

参考例句：

• It's eerie to walk through a dark wood at night.夜晚在漆黑的森林中行走很是恐怖。
• I walked down the eerie dark path.我走在那条漆黑恐怖的小路上。