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

xbx_leeUID: 129512

Thanks to dcb.

In 1986, an explosion of(at) the Chernobyl nuclear power plant blanked(blanketed) the surrounding area with radioactive fallout. Now scitists(scientists) who have been tracking that disasters told to add(not exact, but I can't tell) (a) new victim to their list-- birds that live near the reactor. The interesting thing is not all the birds near Chernobyl have been decimted by radioactivity, only those who are brightly（为什么不用bright） color(because it's colored), migrate (long) distances or lay big eggs, all of which require antioxidant molecules. The researcher(s) examined birds from 57 speices. They found that those with brighter plumage(plumes), such as orioles and blue tits, were harder hit by radiation than their drab neighbors, such as coal tits and chaffinches. The same was true for birds to(that) tent to travel (and) likely(like) to lay large eggs. That pattern suggests that antioxidant molecules play an important role in help(听到是help但语法上应该是helping) birds handle radioactivity. Because antioxidants can protect the(x) animals against nasty the(x) chemicals like those spilled from the damaged reacotor(reactor). But brightly color(ed) birds use up their entire antioxidants producing those flashy, red, yellow and orange pigments. So the Chernobyl melt-down may being bright of bus (not sure.means what??)(a bust not sure)for birds, or being dull is the thing to do.

Now you may go on with this:
In 1986 an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear powerplant blanketed the surrounding area with radioactive fallout. Now scientists who've been tracking that disaster's told to add a new victim to their list -- birds that live near the reactor. The interesting thing is: not all the birds near the Chernobyl have been decimated by radioactivity, only those that are brightly colored, migrate long distances or lay big eggs, all of which require antioxidant molecules. The researchers examined birds from 57 species. They found that those with brighter plumes such as orioles and blue tits, were harder hit by radiation than their drab neighbors such as coal tits and chaffinches. The same was true for birds that tend to  travel and like to lay large eggs. That pattern suggests that antioxidant molecules play an important role in helping birds handle radioactivity. Because antioxidants can help protect animal against nasty chemicals like those spilled from the damaged reactor. But brightly colored birds use up their antioxidants producing those flashy red, yellow and orange pigments. So the Chernobyl meltdown may being bright a bust for birds, or being dull is the thing to do.

AllenTingUID: 2308616

如果that指energy，那么后面的
chimps spend knuckle-walking on all fours如何理解？

spend sth on sth?spend 如何搭配？
谢！

vitamin-acUID: 2302762

This is Scientific Americans 60 seconds science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute.

In 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear powerplant blanketed the surrounding area with radioactive fallout. Now scientists who've been tracking that desaster have tolled of adding a new victim to their list -- birds that lived near the reactor. The interesting thing is not all the birds near Chernobyl have been decimated by radioactivity, only those that are brightly colored, migrate long distances or lay big eggs, all of which require antioxidant molecules. The researchers examined birds from 57 species. They found that those with bighter plument, such as oreals and blue tids were harder hit by radiation than their drab neighbors such as cold tids and chaphin shes. The same was true for birds detended to travel are liked to lay large eggs. That pattern suggests that antioxidant molecules play an important role in how birds handle radioactivity. Because antioxidants can protect animal against nasty chemicals like those spilled from the damaged reactor. But brightly colored birds use up their antioxidants producing those flashy red, yellow and orange pigments. So the Chernobyl meltdown may being bright a bust for birds, well being dull is the thing to do.

Thanks for the minute for scientific American 60 seconds science, I'm Karen Hopkin.

[ 本帖最后由 vitamin-ac 于 2007-7-18 17:30 编辑 ]

dcbUID: 2232749

没留意楼上那么认真，一看最后那句“Thanks for the minute for scientific American 60 seconds science, I'm Karen Hopkin”。还以为说这个id最后署名是Karen Hopkin本人，在纳闷她怎么会亲自来这里纠正大家呢，呵呵:loveliness:

回复 #1111  定语后置，硬要写成 spent sth1 +on+ sth2的话大概是
This week a team of researchers reports that human spend only about a quarter of the energy  that chimps spend + knuckle-walking on all fours +(on)+ walking on two legs.
sth1=knuckle-walking on all fours
sth2=walking on two legs.
right? ok?

to xbx_lee's quetion, I listened again and found it may be like this:
Now scientists who've been tracking that disasters told of an added new victim to their list -- birds that live near the reactor.

[ 本帖最后由 dcb 于 2007-7-18 17:32 编辑 ]

vitamin-acUID: 2302762

呵呵~

xbx_leeUID: 129512

原帖由 dcb 于 2007-7-18 17:22 发表
to xbx_lee's quetion, I listened again and found it may be like this:
Now scientists who've been tracking that disasters told of an added new victim to their list -- birds that live near the reactor.

At first I thought it was: somebody has been told (to do) something --> somebody's told (to do) something. But "their list" shows it has to be plural. So I can't be sure.

Your sentence is lacking in predicate, thus I don't think it is the exact answer.

It should be more like this (based on yours): Now scientists who've been tracking that disasters are told of an added new victim to their list -- birds that live near the reactor.

dcbUID: 2232749

well, in my opinion, I think some commas and explanation may be needed:

Now scientists, who've been tracking that disasters, told of an added new victim to their list -- birds that live near the reactor.

Here, I mean : scientsts told of sth~~ in other words, what settles behind the word "that"  is not a clause. In this case, the sentence is not lacking in predicate. Right?

finalmanUID: 2275821

tracking that disaster's told -> toll
这样好像比较合理一点

lydia_zznUID: 2338159

楼主是听一遍就抄成那样了吗

孱仔明UID: 2335378

:)

孱仔明UID: 2335378

:)

zhenzhen_163UID: 196150

Humans    spend     a quarter of the energy      (walking on two legs)     that
I                 spent        half     (of) the money                                             (that)



chimps     spend    (knuckle-walking on all fours).
She           did        (for the same dress).



Instead of using grammatical terms, I am trying to show you the pattern of two similar sentences by parsing them. I hope you will get it intuitively.

zhenzhen_163UID: 196150

This is kind of interesting. All of a sudden, this thread has exploded in a lively discussion. Wonderful!

I want to thank the people who posted #1113, 1115 and 1117; and also AllenTing for asking questions. By the way, #1117 contains the right answer.

There are still quite a few other mistakes in the transcripts you guys wrote for today’s recording. Let’s see if the new posts will have resolved these issues. Unfortunately, I will be away on a short vacation and won’t be here to help you.

But remember, top-down! It will lead you to a much higher level of understanding. Have fun and enjoy!

小马家家UID: 2247022

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虽然还不能听写60 second science

但坚持一直听 :mad

大家都加油

[ 本帖最后由 小马家家 于 2007-7-19 00:23 编辑 ]

RaphealUID: 2336344

well, to the ques u've discussed above..

  from my perspective..  told should be replaced by toll...

    thus, the sentence is supposed to be like this:
Now, scientists who've been tracking that disaster toll of adding a new victim to their list----birds that near live the reacor.
                                       :loveliness: