On the mirror the lizard stabilized at one color of green — the green of young leaves on trees in the spring — and returned to that one color each time I tried the experiment.
趴在镜子上的蜥蜴稳定在一种颜色——绿色,是春树发新叶的那种嫩绿。每次把它放进去时都回归到这个颜色。
In spring, caterpillars time their emergence to coincide with the bud burst of trees; birds start nesting when they can feed those newly emerged caterpillars to their fledglings.
春天,毛毛虫的出现时间和树木的萌芽一致;鸟儿开始筑巢的时间要跟毛虫出现的时间吻合,用来哺育幼鸟。
The best time for people to celebrate was when food was available in plenty, and that was possible in spring, or the beginning of the lunar New Year.
人们最好的庆祝时间就是他们能得到食物丰盛的时候,也就是春天或是元月初的那段时间。
Now it is spring in the northern part of the world so it is time to celebrate that season.
VOA: special.2010.03.15
suppose I asked you to time a 100 meter spring in the Olympics, but I give you a stopwatch that is measured in units of 15 seconds?
如果我要求你,在奥林匹克数给100米短跑计时,但我会给你一个秒表,它可以测出15秒的大小?
Spring is the time when farmers in Haiti plant about sixty percent of their crops.
VOA: special.2010.04.13
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