例如:The book is made of high-quality leaf.(这本书是用高质量的纸张制成的。) 三、leaf在句中的用法 作为可数名词和不可数名词,leaf在句中可以作为主语、宾语或定语使用。例如:The leaves of the trees are falling. (树叶正在落下。)、I picked up the leaves in the garden.(我在花园里捡起了叶子...
The table has a top made up of two leaves (4), below which an extra leaf (5) is stored. A synchronized mechanism allows the leaves to be moved apart while the extra leaf is simultaneously raised and turned through 90degrees, so that it fits into the gap between them....
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The insect order Phasmatodea is known for large slender insects masquerading as twigs or bark. In contrast to these so-called stick insects, the subordinated clade of leaf insects (Phylliidae) are dorso-ventrally flattened and therefore resemble leaves in a unique way. Here we show that the...
”“Because that creature is made of steel.” I moved myself quickly to the top of the being, and kicked it. It was evidently a hard, solid body. The black back that supported me was smooth, polished, nothing like an animal. The blow produced a sound of metal; and, incredible though...
Davidson said in one of his reports: the inhabitants of these islands will never be thoroughly Christianised till every boy of more than ten years is made to wear a pair of trousers." But Mrs. Davidson had given two or three of her birdlike glances at heavy grey clouds that...
These unique properties are thought to be related in some part to the high silica content of bamboo. Bamboo extract is the richest known source of natural silica containing over 70% organic silica. This is more than 10 times the level as found in the widely used Horsetail plant (Equi...
you'll win. And now I must see another case I have downstairs. Behrman, his name is -- some kind of an artist, I believe. Pneumonia, too. He is an old, weak man, and the attack is acute. There is no hope for him; ...
A compound leaf begins as a simple peg-like primordium at the flanks of the shoot apical meristem (SAM)3. Then, initiation of leaflet primordia is dependent on the maintenance of a transient morphogenetic activity around the lateral margins of the primary primordium, and it occurs successively ...