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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.
蓋洛普首次用黑猩猩做實驗，黑猩猩是內在反應，它的前額觸碰了紅點。
feeding-feed
v.喂養; 放牧
feedback
n.反應；反饋
Great tracts of lowland country deforested by logging, fire, or both have become ideal feeding grounds of deer.
大部分的低地的樹木被砍伐、焚燒，進而成為了鹿群理想的生活場地。
expansion
n.擴充; 膨脹
expanded-expand
v.使膨脹; 擴張
The technology is in place for a major expansion of wind power worldwide.
該項技術將應用于擴大全球風能產業。
solutions-solution
n.解決, 溶液
This technique allows researchers to create solutions that selectively omit certain nutrients and then observe the resulting effects on the plants.
這項技術允許研究人員創造缺乏某種營養素的溶液，然后觀察對植物生長造成的影響。
portrayed-portray
v.描寫；畫
All groups, including the Fore, who had almost no contact with Western culture, agreed on the portrayed emotions.
包括幾乎從未接觸過西方文化的人在內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.
觀看電影廳是仿照留聲機播放廳。
merchants-merchant
n.商人adj.商業的
Auctions were another popular form of occasional trade .Because of the competition, retail merchants opposed these as well as the fairs.
拍賣是臨時交易的又一普遍形式。因競爭激烈，零售商不僅會抵制交易會也會抵制拍賣會。
extreme
n.極端, 末端 adj.極端的, 盡頭的
extremely
adv.極端地, 很
Birch is one of the few species of tree that can survive in the extreme environments of the upper timberline.
樺樹是少有的能夠在上行樹帶界線，這種極端天氣情況下存活的樹種。
dust
n.灰塵, 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年科學家通過研究撞擊后形成的、覆蓋地球表面的塵霧沉積層，首次確認了這次撞擊。
distinct
adj.清楚的；明顯的
distinctive
adj.有特色的
distinction
n.區別；差別
Throughout history buildings have been constructed like human bodies, needing distinct “organ” systems in order to function.
回顧歷史，人類建筑形似人形，需要獨特“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,
宇宙天體形狀多種多樣：有圓形星體（許多帶光圈），尾狀彗星，
wispy cosmic gas and dust clouds, ringed nebulae, pinwheel-shaped spiral galaxies, and so on.
宇宙氣體，塵埃云，環狀星云，輪轉型螺旋星系等。
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.
迄今為止，發現的最早的并且有跡可尋的工藝品是珠鏈和雕刻，然后還有繪畫，人類在舊石器時代晚期的遺址上發現了它們。
basis
n.基礎
The President began to address the Senate on a regular basis.
總統按慣例進行參議院演說。
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.
郁金香是舊世界，而非新世界物種，它起源于中亞。
textile
n.紡織品 adj.紡織的
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續運轉的機器，
and although waterpower abounded in Lancashire and Scotland and ran grain mills as well as textile mills,
盡管在當時的蘭開夏和蘇格蘭地區水力資源極其豐富，被用于谷物作坊和紡織廠，
it had one great disadvantage:streams flowed where nature intended them to and water-driven factories had to be located on their banks
但這種動力存在一個極大的缺陷：水的流向是由自然因素決定的，
whether or not the location was desirable for other reasons.
不論適不適合工廠選址，利用水利生產的工廠都必須建造在能夠提供水資源動力的岸邊。
terrestrial
adj.地球的, 陸地的
The explosion is also calculated to have produced vast quantities of nitric acid and melted rock that sprayed out over much of Earth,
據估計，爆炸過程還產生了大量的硝酸和被溶解的巖漿并噴出地球外，
starting widespread fires that must have consumed most terrestrial forests and grassland.
同時造成了大面積火災，燒毀了大部分的森林和草原。
surge
v.洶涌; 蜂擁而至
During most of their lives, surge glaciers behave like normal glaciers, traveling perhaps only a couple of inches per day.
冰川運動與普通冰川不無兩樣，日運動量只有幾英寸。
