英语听力：探索发现 2012-05-20 恐龙是怎样的炼成的—1

 Dinosaurs². You’ve probably seen hundreds of them. You might think you know what they look like. But almost every dinosaur¹ you’ve ever seen is a work of fiction. You turn on the television. it almost feels that we know everything about them. And that’s not really the case. But now a groundbreaking new exhibition is working with the world’s dinosaur scientists to revolutionize the way we see these animals. We’ve found using our computer models that human sprinter³ would probably be pretty well match for a muscular tyrannosaurus. Scientists are pushing the frontiers of our knowledge in new and surprising ways. We can say these dark stripes were not red, black or whatever, they were ginger⁴. That’s just amazing. But we’ve never even found a complete skeleton of a tyrannosaurus rex, the most famous dinosaur. So how on earth have we worked out so much about animals that lived millions of years ago? How do we get from an incomplete pile of broken bones to this? How do you build a dinosaur?

 

I’m Alice Roberts. I am an anatomist used to working with human bodies. It’s not hard to put a human skeleton together. You only need to look in the mirror to get a pretty good idea of where the bones go. But what do you do when the bones belong to animals that went extinct millions of years ago? We all think that we know what dinosaurs look like. We’ve seen plenty of them in pictures, in films, in animations⁵, even in toy shops. But given that the last dinosaur died at about 65 million years ago, none of us have ever actually seen a living dinosaur. So how do we know what they look like and can we be sure that we’re getting it right?

1 dinosaur   

n.恐龙

参考例句：

• Are you trying to tell me that David was attacked by a dinosaur?你是想要告诉我大卫被一支恐龙所攻击？
• He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.他凝视著精确的恐龙缩小模型。

2 dinosaurs   

n.恐龙( dinosaur的名词复数 )；守旧落伍的人，过时落后的东西

参考例句：

• The brontosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. 雷龙是所有恐龙中最大的一种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 sprinter   

n.短跑运动员，短距离全速奔跑者

参考例句：

• He is more a sprinter than a swimmer. 他是短跑健将，而不是游泳选手。 来自辞典例句
• The sprinter himself thinks he can run the race at 9.4 seconds. 这位短跑运动员自认为可以用9.4秒跑完比赛。 来自互联网

4 ginger   

n.姜，精力，淡赤黄色；adj.淡赤黄色的；vt.使活泼，使有生气

参考例句：

• There is no ginger in the young man.这个年轻人没有精神。
• Ginger shall be hot in the mouth.生姜吃到嘴里总是辣的。

5 animations   

n.生气( animation的名词复数 )；兴奋；动画片；（指电影、录像、电脑游戏的）动画制作

参考例句：

• You'll see your team cheerleaders and mascot performing new animations as well. 你会看到啦啦队队长跟吉祥物也都会有全新的动作。 来自互联网
• Ability to create simple movie and animations using graphic & multimedia software. 能够用平面和多媒体软件制作简单的电影及动画。 来自互联网