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闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:05:10

此外，蜘蛛不同于其他食虫动物，它们丝毫不危害我们和我们的财务。

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:06:37

Spiders are not insects,as many people think,nor even nearly related to them.

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:07:48

许多人认为蜘蛛是昆虫，但他们不是昆虫，甚至与昆虫毫无关系。

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:09:42

One can tell the difference almost at a glance,for a spider always has eight legs and an insect never more than 6.

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:11:02

人们几乎一眼就能看出二者的差异，因为蜘蛛都是8条退，而昆虫的腿从不超过6条。

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:12:16

How many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf?

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:13:19

有多少蜘蛛在为我们效力呢？

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:17:15

One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in a grass field in the south of England,and he estimated that there were more than 2250000 in one acre;that is something like 6000000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitch.

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:19:41

一位研究蜘蛛的权威对英国南部一块草坪上的蜘蛛作了一次调查。他估计每英亩草坪里有225万多只蜘蛛。这就是说，在一个足球场上约有600万只不同种类的蜘蛛。

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:21:20

Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects.

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:22:21

蜘蛛至少有半年忙于吃昆虫。

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:24:51

It is possible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill,but they are hungry creatures,not content with only three meals a day.

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:26:08

他们一年中消灭了多少昆虫，我们简直无法猜测，它们是吃不饱的动物，不满意一日三餐。

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:28:29

It has been estimated that the weight of all the insects destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total weight of all hte human beings in the country.

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:29:59

据估计，在英国蜘蛛一年里所消灭昆虫的重量超过了这个国家人口的总重量。

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:33:52

不熟悉的词语：

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:34:53

devour vt. 吞食

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:36:23

flock n. 兽群；畜群；人群

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:37:45

herd n. 畜群；牧群；人群

闪电止损 · 发表于 2010-10-3 20:38:54

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