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Vocabulary
1. cryptic 隱藏的，保護(hù)的
cryptic coloring 保護(hù)色，隱藏色
2. predaceous 食肉的，捕食其他動(dòng)物的。
3. vertebrate 脊椎動(dòng)物門
4. tint 色澤，色彩
5. zebra 斑馬
6. Sargasso 果本馬尾藻
7. twig 嫩枝
8. lichen 地衣
9. flake 一片
10. gradation 等級(jí)，層次，分等
11. obliterate 涂抹，擦去，使消失
12. larva 幼蟲，幼體
13. pupa 蛹
14. mimicry 模仿，擬態(tài)
15. insectivorous 食蟲的
16. procryptic 有保護(hù)色的，保護(hù)性的
難句譯注
1. …the rapidity of movement which is also made use of by both pursuer and pursued, which is similarly raised to a maximum in both by the gradual dying out of the slowest through a series of generations.
[參考譯文] 追捕動(dòng)物和被追的動(dòng)物也利用快速的動(dòng)作。這種快速的運(yùn)動(dòng)同樣是通過幾代更迭，逐漸消除了慢速，而發(fā)展到快速頂峰。
2. Protective resemblance is far commoner among animals than aggressive resemblance, in correspondence with the fact that predaceous forms are as a rule much larger and much less numerous than their prey.
[參考譯文] 保護(hù)性模仿遠(yuǎn)比侵犯行模仿要普遍得多，這是和下述的情況想配合的：食肉的(形式)動(dòng)物，按慣律總是比他們捕食的對象要大而且多得多。
3. The effect of a uniform appearance may be produced by a combination of tints in startling contrast.
[參考譯文] 在驚人的對比中，色澤的綜合可能產(chǎn)生外形一致的效果。
4. …their proportion is such as exactly to match the pale tint which arid ground possesses when seen by moonlight.
[參考譯文] (這里指斑馬的黑白條)比例正好和在月光下觀看貧瘠土地所具有的蒼白色澤相吻合。
5. In these environments the cryptic coloring of animals is usually aided by special modifications of shape, and by the instinct which leads them to assume particular attitudes.
[參考譯文] 在這些環(huán)境中，動(dòng)物的保護(hù)色常常得到特定的形狀變化和本能的協(xié)作，這種本能會(huì)使動(dòng)物采取特定的姿勢。
6. Complete stillness and the assumption of a certain attitude play an essential part in general resemblance on land; but in special resemblance the attitude is often highly specialized…
[參考譯文] 絕對靜態(tài)和采取一般姿勢在陸地的一般模仿中起很大作用，而在專門模仿中，姿勢常常是高度專門化的。
7. Thus the arrangement of colors of many kinds into an appropriate pattern requires the cooperation of a suitable shape and the rigidly exact adoption of a certain elaborate attitude.
[參考譯文] 因此許多類顏色排列成恰當(dāng)?shù)哪Ｊ?形式，要求把合適的外形和嚴(yán)格的采用一定的精心設(shè)計(jì)的姿勢相結(jié)合。
8. The cryptic effect is due to the exact cooperation of all these factors; and in the present state of science, the only possible hole of an interpretation lies in the theory of natural selection, which can accumulate any and every variation which tends toward survival.
[參考譯文] 保護(hù)效果是由于所以這些因素確切合作而形成。根據(jù)目前科學(xué)水平，唯一的解釋(此種現(xiàn)象)就是自然選擇理論，它可以累積要生存的各種變異/變種。
