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    An electric eel can produce a shock of more than 600 volts, 3 times more powerful than a household outlet. It not only uses this power to kill its prey but to locate it as well-though it is born with eyes, it is blind as an adult and employs its electricity to find food in much the same way as man uses radar. 

    电鳗能释放出超过600伏的电，是家用电灯电流的3倍。他不仅用这一电力杀死猎获物，还用它寻找猎物。电鳗虽然出生时有眼睛，长大后会变成瞎子，它像人使用雷达那样通过放电寻找食物。

     A factory in which 2,000 different machines are operating with twenty-five men on each machine would rightly be considered a complex structure. The smallest bacterium is that complex. In effect, there are 50,000 chemical reactions taking place in each bacterium.  

    如果一个工厂有2,000台不同的机器，每台机器有25个人操作，这样的工厂可被认为是一个综合体。最小的细菌就是这样一个综合体。事实上，每个细菌在发生这5万个化学反应。

    The penguin has an apparatus above its eyes that enables it to transform salt water into fresh. The penguin takes only one mate during its life and is such a conscientious parent that it will, if necessary, starve to death in order to provide its children with food.

    企鹅眼睛上边有个器官能将盐水变成淡水。企鹅一生中只有一个配偶，对子女很尽心，为了给孩子们找食甚至不惜自己饿死。

    The average hummingbird weighs less than  a penny. It has a body temperature of 111 degrees and beats its wings more than 75 times a second. Its newborn are the size of bumblebees and its nest is the size of a walnut. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backward.

    蜂鸟的平均体重比一枚一便士的硬币还轻。它的体温达111度，翅膀每秒种要扇动75次以上。孵出的蜂鸟只有大黄蜂那么大，其巢只有核桃那么大。蜂鸟是唯一能倒退向后飞的鸟。