反馈建议 切换旧版 去做题 结束训练
全文精听 逐句精听
句间停顿： 关
  • 关
  • 1S
  • 3S
  • 5S
语速： x 1.0
  • 速度0.8X
  • 速度1.0X
  • 速度1.2X
  • 速度1.5X
  • 速度1.8X
  • 速度2X
始终显示原文
欢迎使用 KMF 精听精研
坚持练习精听，反复听、吃透每个句子，能够快速 提升听力能力
开始精听
或按 「 空格」开始播放

段落1

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=

After a long bath, your fingers and toes come out all wrinkly.

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=

You may have wondered why your skin would go and do such a thing.

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=

Now a study shows that puckered digits give us a surer hold on objects that are slippery when wet.

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=

This gripping discovery appears in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=

It might seem like magic, or maybe osmosis, that sets your fingertips rippling after being submerged for awhile.

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=

But it's actually an active process that's controlled by the same part of the nervous system that regulates your heartbeat, breathing and even sweat.

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=

So, underwater wrinkling is something your body does on purpose.

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=

To explore the potential advantages of waterlogged fingertips,

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=

researchers asked volunteers to move a bunch of marbles from one bucket of water to another.

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=

Sometimes their fingers were wrinkled, sometimes they were smooth.

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=

The results: subjects were more nimble with the wet marbles when their fingers were wrinkled.

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=

Could be that this mechanism gave our ancestors a leg-up, or hand-up,

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=

when it came to grabbing wet fruit or dashing through the rain.

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=

Now science has shown that wrinkled fingers also help keep us from losing our marbles.

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=

Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.

点击显示原文

隐藏原文=
[ < 空格 > ]
当前句 /
/
  • 段落1
  • 第 1 句
  • 第 2 句
  • 第 3 句
  • 第 4 句
  • 第 5 句
  • 第 6 句
  • 第 7 句
  • 第 8 句
  • 第 9 句
  • 第 10 句
  • 第 11 句
  • 第 12 句
  • 第 13 句
  • 第 14 句
  • 第 15 句
  • 第 16 句

+ 创建收藏夹
保存 取消