英語學(xué)習(xí)筆記:2017-05-16

Indochina

一個(gè)接近「東南亞的大陸部分」的地理概念

originally Indo-China, is a geographical term originating in the early nineteenth century and referring to the continental portion of the region now known as Southeast Asia. The name refers to the lands historically within the cultural influence of India and China, and physically bound by India in the west and China in the north. It corresponds to the present-day areas of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and (variably) peninsular Malaysia. The term was later adopted as the name of the colony of French Indochina (today's Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos), and the entire area of Indochina is now usually referred to as the Indochinese Peninsula or Mainland Southeast Asia.


tuatara

喙頭蜥,一種非常珍貴的物種,僅僅在新西蘭有

The name tuatara means “spiny back” in Māori. But their most extraordinary feature is in the middle of their heads.

The tuatara’s “third eye” is equipped with a lens, retina, cornea and connective tissue leading to the brain, but it is not used to see. Instead it is thought to be used for setting the tuatara's circadian rhythms.


Parietal eye

parietal eye 也可以稱為第三只眼睛,這只眼睛也有晶狀體、視網(wǎng)膜、角膜,可以連接到大腦的神經(jīng),需要蜥蜴都有 parietal eye

Wikipedia: A parietal eye, also known as a third eye or pineal eye, is a part of the epithalamus present in some animal species. The eye is photoreceptive and is associated with the pineal gland, regulating circadian rhythmicity and hormone production for thermoregulation.

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