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grasses-grass
n.草，草原 v.使吃草，放牧
grasshoppers-grasshopper
n.蚱蜢；輕型飛機
grassland
n.牧草地；草原
In the eastern parts of the United States, the preferred grass for forage was a cultivated plant.
在美國西部地區，飼養草場為人工栽植。
carbon
n.碳
carbohydrates-carbohydrate
n.碳水化合物，醣
carbonate
n.碳酸鹽v.使變成碳酸鹽
carboniferous
adj.含碳或煤的
carbonic
adj.碳的；由碳得到的
Many of the more important air pollutants, such as sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides, are found in nature.
像硫氧化物、一氧化碳以及氧化氮等空氣污染物存在于自然界中。
As the Earth developed, the concentrations of these pollutants were altered by various chemical reactions; they became components in biogeochemical cycle.
隨著地球不斷變化，污染物通過集中形成化學反應；并成為生物化學循環的基本元素。
whig
n.輝格黨（是英國歷史上的一個政黨）
The Democratic and Whig Parties developed in response to the needs of competing economic and political constituencies.
“共民”兩黨因經濟和政治選區需要而不斷發展。
predators-predator
n.掠奪者，食肉動物
predatory
adj.掠奪的，捕食生物的
predation
n.動物的捕食行為
First, the major predators of deer wolves, cougar, and lynx have been greatly reduced in numbers.
首先，鹿群天敵數量不斷減少，它們是狼、美洲豹以及猞猁。
particles-particle
n.粒子，極小量
The mineral particles found in soil range in size from microscopic clay particles to large boulders.
依體型而論，土壤中的礦物顆粒從微土壤顆粒到大體積卵石。
forces-force
n.力量，勢力，武力 v.強迫，推動
force
n.力量，勢力，武力 v.強迫，推動
forced
n.力量，勢力，武力 v.強迫，推動
Lacking the right to vote and absent from the seats of power, women were not considered an important force in history.
無選舉權，無掌控權，女性不被看作是社會中堅力量。
advanced-advance
n.前進；增長；v.使向前移動；推進，adj.先行的
advancement
n.前進；促進；進展
Some 800 years ago, Alaska's Hubbard Glacier advanced toward the sea, retreated, and advanced again 500 years later.
約800年前，阿拉斯加哈伯冰川移向海洋，退卻，并將在500年后再次移向大海。
squares-square
n.廣場；方形物
Steam was accumulated in a large, double-acting vertical cylinder, but the steam reached only a few pounds of pressure per square inch.
蒸汽在雙作用直立缸中不斷積聚，但每平方英寸只會增加幾磅壓力。
rise
n.上升，上漲，增加 v.上升；上漲
Instead of trying to keep down the body temperature deep inside the body, which would involve the expenditure of water and energy,
沙漠哺乳動物并不試圖將體溫控制得很低，因為這么做將會涉及水和能量的消耗，
desert mammals allow their temperatures to rise to what would normally be fever height, and temperatures as high as 46 degrees Celsius have been measured in Grant's gazelles.
而是允許體溫上升到平常是高燒的溫度——有人在格蘭特羚羊身上曾測到高達46攝氏度的體溫。
gradually
adv.慢慢地；漸漸地
Then as industrialization became increasingly complicated, the craft techniques of preindustrial society gradually gave way to a technology
隨著工業化不斷加深，前工業化時期的手工技藝逐漸落后，
based on the systematic application of scientific knowledge and scientific methods.
取而代之的是以科學知識和科學方法為基礎的系統性應用。
frequently
adv.頻繁地，屢次地
frequent
adj.時常發生的
Some humans hunt more frequently than gray wolves.
人類的捕獵次數多于灰狼。
diversity
n.差異；多樣性
diverse
adj.不同的；變化多的
diversions-diversion
n.轉移
But on reflection it becomes clear that the more critically useful as well as the more frequently employed sense of the term concerns the artfulness of the verbal creation, not its mode of presentation.
但通過再次考慮，口頭創作更為實用，且使用更為頻繁，它也并不是一種擺設。
