英语听力：自然百科 虫虫兄弟—5

 Once the clothes make contact with human skin, so do the lice. They lay twice as many eggs as head lice, live twice as long and feed several times a day. If body lice drink blood infected with disease, they can pass that infection to humans through their droppings. The infected lice droppings dried to fine dust, which is easily blown about. The problem comes if you then scratch the irradiating bite and break the skin, rubbing in the infected dropping and allowing the disease to enter the blood stream. Body lice can help transmit killer² disease like typhus if they get the chance. It might seem a grim start for the Smith and it's only 8 a.m..More uninvited guests arrive for breakfast. We are about to meet the resident's serial³ killer. On the surface everything looks fine, just a typical family breakfast. Look more closely and it's a different story. Attracted in by sugar left-overs and stood a little damage, at least you can see them. The Smith shared their table with some crib diners. These are green wibbles. Magnified several thousand times, they look like alien anteaters with strange brass⁴ bin¹ mouth parts and club-like antenna⁵.

1 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。

2 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

3 serial   

n.连本影片，连本电视节目；adj.连续的

参考例句：

• A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
• Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗？

4 brass   

n.黄铜；黄铜器，铜管乐器

参考例句：

• Many of the workers play in the factory's brass band.许多工人都在工厂铜管乐队中演奏。
• Brass is formed by the fusion of copper and zinc.黄铜是通过铜和锌的熔合而成的。

5 antenna   

n.触角，触须；天线

参考例句：

• The workman fixed the antenna to the roof of the house.工人把天线固定在房顶上。
• In our village, there is an antenna on every roof for receiving TV signals.在我们村里，每家房顶上都有天线接收电视信号。