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| Convention | Can recognise convention |
| Speculate | It has been speculated that, as the blowholes evolved and migrated to the top of the head |
| Convention | Can recognise convention |
| Evolve | It has been speculated that, as the blowholes evolved and migrated to the top of the head |
| Convention | Can recognise convention |
| Migrate | It has been speculated that, as the blowholes evolved and migrated to the top of the head |
| Cetaceans | Some of the senses are either reduced or absent in cetaceans of fail to function well in the water. |
| Sacrifice | They may have been nearly all sacrificed. |
| Taste bud | Cetaceans have taste buds |
| Degenerate | The nerves serving these have degenerated or are rudimentary |
| Rudimentary | The nerves serving these have degenerated or are rudimentary |
| Trainer | Trainer often remark on their animals' responsiveness |
| Responsiveness | Trainer often remark on their animals' responsiveness |
| Captive | Captive dolphins |
| Rub | To being touched or rubbed |
| Individual | Individuals of all species |
| Maintain | This contact may help to maintain order within a group |
| Stroke | Stroking or touching are part of the courtship ritual in most species |
| Courtship | At courtship time |
| Ritual | This holiday is both an ancient ritual and a moment of renewal |
| Take for granted | You could take for granted that this would exist only once / without the services and conveniences that we all take for granted |
| Appear to | You may appear to be right |
| Remark on | It would be rude to remark on her appearance |
| Close quarters | When the animals got to close quarters |
| Apparently | They can apparently see moderately well both in water and in air |
| Moderately | Eat moderately - stop counting fat grams and calories and look at how much food is on your plate! |
| Restrict | Wise managers in school should be able to understand this feeling and not restrict the colorful thinking with monotonous uniform. |
| Judge from | I think this is only to judge from the view how much of suffering it gives to the person. |
| Airborne | It tracks airborne flying fish |
| Fairly well | 挺不错；相当好；挺好的 |
| Preliminary | Although preliminary experimental evidence suggests that... |
| Anecdotal | It could well be that this not the case, but anecdotal evidence seems to indicate otherwise. |
| Variation | The residues of these three pesticides were observed to have been reducing with the harvest time, but with different variation in reduction |
| Turbid | Those living in turbid rivers and flooded plains |
| Inhabit | Imagine for a moment that you are one of the countless tiny organisms inhabiting the planet's oceans more than 500 million years ago. |
| Flooded plains | 冲积平原 |
| Intensity | Direction and intensity of light |
| Slit | He closed his eyes to slits against the wind and rejoiced |
| Deteriorate | His health began to deteriorate and he was miserable |
| Compensate | The company has compensated him for the extra working time. |
| Acoustic | Acoustic sense |
| Forage | Many forage for food |
| Perception | I was deficient in the perception of life |
| Chorus | Out on the water flickering lights and soft- voiced choruses marked the fishers returning from the reef |
| Haunting | A single haunting piece of music |
| Utterance | Since any human utterance is a continuous speech flow made up of at least one syllable, it cannot be cut into independent units. |
| Spectrum | Frequency spectrum |
| Solid science | It has been more the subject of wild speculation than of solid science |
| Perspective | To put this into perspective, |
| Representation | More than literal representations |
| Draw to my attention | This fact was drawn to my attention |
| Dramatically | The number of startups increases dramatically |
| Initiative | On her own initiative to ... |
| Be taken aback | I was taken aback |
| Illustration | Diagram |
| Rendition | One particularly clever rendition appeared repeatedly |
| Metaphorical | As metaphorical ways of suggesting motion |
| Indicate | This device somehow indicated motion very well |
| Idiosyncratic | They were merely idiosyncratic mark |
| Sight | On the top of the clouds the sun shone brilliantly; stretching away out of sight there was a broad, white road. The sun sank out of sight, the woods grew dark |
| Interpret | Your should interpret what I said in my sense of the word, not in yours. |
| Depict | A ceramic vase depicting orchids |
| Perimeter | Extended beyond the perimeter of the wheel |
| Wobble | Nothing could be worse than to suddenly see one darting out as if from nowhere and wobbling across your front window |
| Jerk | I take the paper between two fingers and jerk it out of his hand |
| Brake | He said the cause of the accident was brake failure. |
| Assume | I think it was somewhat presumptuous of him to assume he could just bring along as many people as he wanted |
| Favoured | Favour |
| Consensus | There seems to be a lack of consensus |
| Doctoral | Adj.博士的；博士学位的 |
| Deem | We deem it premature to take the matter into consideration. |
| Resemble | Their choices closely resembled those |
| Convention | You might even adopt a convention for the journal's file name, which makes it easy to recognize what you've built previously. |
| Presumptuous | And as I said, presumptuous of me to say this, if that occurs and continues to occur, it will benefit the whole world |
| Curve | N.曲线；弯曲；曲面；弧线 v.（使）沿曲线移动；呈曲线形 |
| Dash | To make a dash for the house |
| Identical | Same,indistinguishable,equal,matching,alike |
| Association | You exactly hit off the nature of this association when you call it a mutual praising society. |
| Sprawl | Which sprawls across four states in the American south-west |
| Linguist | Linguists doubt that any native speakers of Navajo will remain in a hundred years' time. |
| Vanish | Half the world's 6800 languages are likely to vanish within two generations |
| Planet | 70% of our planet is water |
| Diversity | Variety |
| Shrunk | She turned to leave and I noticed the shrink of her shoulders. |
| Dominate | Control |
| Mass | It's a mass extinction |
| Extinction | It's a mass extinction |
| Isolation | Isolation breeds linguistic diversity |
| Breed | He said the global fight should not focus on specific religions, but rather on eradicating the root causes that breed terrorism. |
| Despite | Navajo is considered endangered despite having 150,000 speakers. |
| Critically | The critically endangered languages are those that are only spoken by the elderly |
| Alongside | Inside; outside |
| Minority | Governments try to kill off a minority language |
| Discourage | Trying to discourage him from driving back Home tonight. |
| Promote | Advance; upgrade |
| Unity | All to promote national unity |
| Policy | The former US policy |
| Deadliest | Deadly; absolutely |
| Weapon | The deadliest weapon is not government policy but economic globalisation |