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2024考研英语同源外刊4月:这就是植物哭泣时的声音

Humans have glorious ways of vocalizing discontent: We grumble, grouse, gripe, groan, moan. One might think airing complaints requires, at the very least, a mouth. But recent research from the plant kingdom shows that a mouth isn't essential. Stressed plants make audible sounds that can be heard many feet away, and the type of sound corresponds with the kind of bad day they are having. The results were published Thursday in the journal Cell.

人类有很多表达不满的方式：我们抱怨，发牢骚，埋怨，呻吟，嘟囔。有人可能会认为，表达不满至少需要一张嘴。但近期植物界的研究表明，嘴并不是必不可少的。有压力的植物发出的声音在几英尺外都能听到，声音的类型与它们所经历的糟糕的一天相对应。研究结果于周四发表在《细胞》杂志上。

To be clear, the sounds made by harried plants are not the same as the anxious mumbling you might utter if you have a big deadline at work. The researchers suspect the nervous, popping noise is instead a byproduct of cavitation, when tiny bubbles burst and produce mini-shock waves inside the plant's vascular system, not unlike what happens in your joints when you crack your knuckles.

需要说明的是，如果你在工作中有一个很大的期限，你可能会发出焦虑的喃喃自语，而植物发出的声音与此不同。研究人员怀疑，这种紧张的爆裂声是空穴现象的副产品，当微小的气泡破裂时，会在植物的“血管”系统中产生微小的冲击波，就像你掰指关节时在关节中发生的情况一样。

"Cavitation is the most likely explanation, at least for most of the sounds," said Lilach Hadany, a biologist at Tel Aviv University in Israel. Plants interact with organisms that produce sounds all the time — like buzzing bees — and also communicate with other life-forms, including other plants, by emitting chemicals, called volatiles. But when it came to research on plants detecting — or producing — audible sounds, the literature had been silent. "One open question that bugged me," Dr. Hadany said, "was the problem of plants and sounds."

以色列特拉维夫大学的生物学家利拉赫·哈达尼说：“空穴现象是极有可能的解释，至少对大多数声音来说是这样。”植物与一直发出声音的有机体(如嗡嗡作响的蜜蜂)相互作用，也通过释放被称为挥发物的化学物质与其他生命形式(包括其他植物)交流。但是，当涉及到植物探测或产生可听见的声音的研究时，文献一直保持沉默。“有一个悬而未决的问题一直困扰着我，”哈达尼博士说，“那就是植物和声音的问题。”

 

单词

glorious/ˈɡlɔːriəs/ adj. 光荣的;值得称道的;

vocalize/ˈvoʊkəlaɪz/ vt. 说(话);唱(歌);哼;发声;

discontent/ˌdɪskənˈtent/ n. 不满;不满足;不满的缘由;

grumble/ˈɡrʌmb(ə)l/ vi. 咕哝;嘟囔;发牢骚;

grouse/ɡraʊs/ vi. 抱怨;发牢骚;

gripe/ɡraɪp/ vi. 抱怨;怨言;牢骚;

groan/ɡroʊn/ vi. 呻吟;叹息;哼哼;

moan/moʊn/ vi. 呻吟;

air/er/ vt. 公开表达;

at the very least 至少;

essential/ɪˈsenʃ(ə)l/ adj. 必不可少的;

stressed/strest/ adj. 受到压力的;

audible/ˈɔːdəb(ə)l/ adj. 听得见的;

foot/fʊt/ n. 英尺;

correspond/ˌkɔːrəˈspɑːnd/ vi. 相一致;符合;

to be clear 需要说明的是;要清楚的说;

harried/ˈhærid/ adj. 疲惫不堪的;

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