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chimpanzee
n.黑猩猩
The first time Gallup tried the experiment with a chimpanzee, the animal acted as if it knew that the reflection was its own, it touched the red spot on its forehead.
盖洛普首次用黑猩猩做实验，黑猩猩是内在反应，它的前额触碰了红点。
feeding-feed
v.喂养; 放牧
feedback
n.反应；反馈
Great tracts of lowland country deforested by logging, fire, or both have become ideal feeding grounds of deer.
大部分的低地的树木被砍伐、焚烧，进而成为了鹿群理想的生活场地。
expansion
n.扩充; 膨胀
expanded-expand
v.使膨胀; 扩张
The technology is in place for a major expansion of wind power worldwide.
该项技术将应用于扩大全球风能产业。
solutions-solution
n.解决, 溶液
This technique allows researchers to create solutions that selectively omit certain nutrients and then observe the resulting effects on the plants.
这项技术允许研究人员创造缺乏某种营养素的溶液，然后观察对植物生长造成的影响。
portrayed-portray
v.描写；画
All groups, including the Fore, who had almost no contact with Western culture, agreed on the portrayed emotions.
包括几乎从未接触过西方文化的人在内的所有人得出了一致的答案。
parlors-parlor
n.店
Kinetoscope parlors for viewing films were modeled on phonograph parlors.
观看电影厅是仿照留声机播放厅。
merchants-merchant
n.商人adj.商业的
Auctions were another popular form of occasional trade .Because of the competition, retail merchants opposed these as well as the fairs.
拍卖是临时交易的又一普遍形式。因竞争激烈，零售商不仅会抵制交易会也会抵制拍卖会。
extreme
n.极端, 末端 adj.极端的, 尽头的
extremely
adv.极端地, 很
Birch is one of the few species of tree that can survive in the extreme environments of the upper timberline.
桦树是少有的能够在上行树带界线，这种极端天气情况下存活的树种。
dust
n.灰尘, 粉末
Scientists first identified this impact in 1980 from the worldwide layer of sediment deposited from the dust cloud that enveloped the planet after the impact.
1980年科学家通过研究撞击后形成的、覆盖地球表面的尘雾沉积层，首次确认了这次撞击。
distinct
adj.清楚的；明显的
distinctive
adj.有特色的
distinction
n.区别；差别
Throughout history buildings have been constructed like human bodies, needing distinct “organ” systems in order to function.
回顾历史，人类建筑形似人形，需要独特“器官”才可有效。
comet
n.彗星
Objects in the universe show a variety of shapes: round planets (some with rings), tailed comets,
宇宙天体形状多种多样：有圆形星体（许多带光圈），尾状彗星，
wispy cosmic gas and dust clouds, ringed nebulae, pinwheel-shaped spiral galaxies, and so on.
宇宙气体，尘埃云，环状星云，轮转型螺旋星系等。
beads-bead
n.珠子; 水珠
The earliest discovered traces of art are beads and carvings, and then paintings, from sites dating back to the Upper Paleolithic period.
迄今为止，发现的最早的并且有迹可寻的工艺品是珠链和雕刻，然后还有绘画，人类在旧石器时代晚期的遗址上发现了它们。
basis
n.基础
The President began to address the Senate on a regular basis.
总统按惯例进行参议院演说。
tulips-tulip
n.郁金香
Tulips are Old World, rather than New World, plants, with the origins of the species lying in Central Asia.
郁金香是旧世界，而非新世界物种，它起源于中亚。
textile
n.纺织品 adj.纺织的
Only the last of these was suited at all to the continuous operating of machines,
其中只有水力可以用于支持持续运转的机器，
and although waterpower abounded in Lancashire and Scotland and ran grain mills as well as textile mills,
尽管在当时的兰开夏和苏格兰地区水力资源极其丰富，被用于谷物作坊和纺织厂，
it had one great disadvantage:streams flowed where nature intended them to and water-driven factories had to be located on their banks
但这种动力存在一个极大的缺陷：水的流向是由自然因素决定的，
whether or not the location was desirable for other reasons.
不论适不适合工厂选址，利用水利生产的工厂都必须建造在能够提供水资源动力的岸边。
terrestrial
adj.地球的, 陆地的
The explosion is also calculated to have produced vast quantities of nitric acid and melted rock that sprayed out over much of Earth,
据估计，爆炸过程还产生了大量的硝酸和被溶解的岩浆并喷出地球外，
starting widespread fires that must have consumed most terrestrial forests and grassland.
同时造成了大面积火灾，烧毁了大部分的森林和草原。
surge
v.汹涌; 蜂拥而至
During most of their lives, surge glaciers behave like normal glaciers, traveling perhaps only a couple of inches per day.
冰川运动与普通冰川不无两样，日运动量只有几英寸。
