Scientific American 60 Second Science听抄（有音频文件）

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Wind up
1 [countable] something that you say or do in order to make someone angry or worried, as a joke
2 [singular]        a series of actions that are intended to complete a process, meeting etc:
The President made a statement at the windup of the summit in Helsinki.

这是我从LONGMAN Dictionary of Contemporary English 上查的，不过我还是不知道怎么具体解释这个短语，望有高人指点！

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听的我云里雾里的，好多连读没听出来，尤其是那个“it's because it's......”  反复听了N遍都没听出来

If i ask you to picture someone who recycles, you might come up with an image of an idealistic with(delete) young naturelover. someone who has the time and energy to take a personal interest in the enironment. At veryly(least) she publish(you’d probably) picutre more earth mom than soccer mom, but a new study from the university of Gra....  suggests that you'd be wrong. Because scientists there found housewives are more ecologically aware than  undergradeates and they are more willing to recycle. The researchers assessed recycling skills from(of) 500 university students and 150 home makers, and they find that the housewives seprate glass from garage more often than students, even though the students say they are pro-environment, so why are housewives better friends to the planet than students, the researchers say that maybe it's Zizi for them. students have to haul  their vest ......stockpiles of recyclables some distances to the proper receptable(receptacle), whereas housewives ......presumably just deposit their borrows(bottles) at the curb, the researchers suggest that the students could be ......encourage to recycle by programs that emphasis(emphasize) how recylcing is an ethical .....imperative for those who care about the earth, or maybe the school could just put a few recylcing bins in the halls.

[ 本帖最后由 Dance_4u 于 2008-1-15 18:53 编辑 ]

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全线飙红，很多单词听错，看来词汇还是又问题啊

you'd think we will(delete) enjoy something based on its intransit(intrinsic) qualities food should taste good because its molecules tickle  our tongues , but it's much more complicated than that, for example one study has shown that knowing the ingredients and name       brand of a beer can increase the drinker's pleasure what's going on in our brain that allow this to happen, researchers at the Californiat   Institution technology recently investigated a(our) neuron(neural) response to those non-intrinsic stimuli. twenty subjects tasted what   they thought were five different wines. they will give(were given) the price for each , but in reality there were only three wines, two   were offered twice, one still at a(once at an alleged) low price  and once at a much higher price, and the subjects consistently said they enjoyed what they thought were expensive wines more, a functional MI showed that  there was no change in activities in the taste      centres of the brain  when the subjects drank what they thought were cost(costlier) their wines, but the MI also reviewed(revealed)    increased activities in the brain's plesaure centres so somehow our brains combine both the actual taste and what we expect about the  taste, in this case that it will be better because its price (it's pricer).....

[ 本帖最后由 Dance_4u 于 2008-1-17 13:11 编辑 ]

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Any successful business person can tell you about the importance of face time actually sitting down with clients co-workers maybe even competitors, but that(there) maybe even more to this whole face to face business than meets the eye or exactly as much as meets the eye, because a new study from ..... University suggests that the successful of a corporation rests squarely on the face of its CEO, the researchers took photos of 50 CEOs from the highest and the lowest ranked fortune one thousand corporations, they showed these pictures to a group of undergraduates, they asked the students to read(rate) each face on whether they(its owner) looked competent, dominant,likeable,mature or trustworthy what they found is that the students' impressions tracked with the company's profites, the more pwerful the leaders like( and leadlike ) the CEO appeared, the more successful the corporation, even though the CEOs will pulling much midland ...(are all pretty much middle-aged white) guys in ties the study which appeared in February issues of Psychological science, just not say(does not indicate) whether profitable company tend to promote people who look like leaders or whether successful CEOs  grow to look the part, if the(either) way looks like a company's financial about the face can actually be about face.

[ 本帖最后由 Dance_4u 于 2008-1-18 12:47 编辑 ]

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谢谢提醒！