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（单词翻译）

 Though very powerful, she’s not a sprinter1 and she needs to get close to her prey2 before she strikes. 

 
This time she’s run too soon and it’s a fruitless chase. 
 
Then her attention is diverted to a slower-moving target, slow but not defenseless. She backs off and tries a different approach. 
 
There’s obviously a meal in there, but how to get to it? 
 
She homes in on the head and bites straight through the skull3. The glyptodont is dead, but the jaguar4 still goes hungry. Unable to crack her victim’s tough armor, all she manages to walk away with is a bony scute. The jaguar will vanish in North America. And glyptodonts, like many Ice Age beasts, become extinct. But at the bottom of the spring, one tiny fragment of an Ice Age giant will remain undisturbed for 13,000 years, while above it, the landscape of Florida will change forever.

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1 sprinter Fhczl7     
n.短跑运动员，短距离全速奔跑者
参考例句：
  • He is more a sprinter than a swimmer. 他是短跑健将，而不是游泳选手。 来自辞典例句
  • The sprinter himself thinks he can run the race at 9.4 seconds. 这位短跑运动员自认为可以用9.4秒跑完比赛。 来自互联网
2 prey g1czH     
n.被掠食者，牺牲者，掠食；v.捕食，掠夺，折磨
参考例句：
  • Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
  • The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。
3 skull CETyO     
n.头骨；颅骨
参考例句：
  • The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
  • He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去，跌裂了颅骨。
4 jaguar JaPz8     
n.美洲虎
参考例句：
  • He was green with envy when he saw my new Jaguar car.看见我那辆美洲虎牌新车，他非常妒忌。
  • Should you meet a jaguar in the jungle,just turn slowly,walk away.But slowly,never look back.你在丛林中若碰上美洲虎，就慢慢转身走开，可一定要慢，切莫回头看。

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