BEIJING — Outside Honesty Dog House, a
cold and dry December wind whipped coils of beige earth skyward. We ran
for the brick buildings.
北京——在誠信如意犬舍外，12月的凜冽寒風將縷縷黃土揚向天空。我們朝着磚石砌成的建築跑了過去。
Giant Ancient Penguins Wore Beige
The tuxedo look is a recent innovation, scientist find.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/science/01penguin.html?_r=1
Beige tents were chosen for the trip, as they would camouflage well in the desert.
Giant Ancient Penguins Wore Beige
Black and white coats are a penguin's signature look. On Thursday, however,
scientists announced that the penguin's ancient predecessors clothed their towering five-foot forms in brown and grey, reports the
New York Times. The finding was made possible by the discovery in Peru of the first ancient penguin fossil with evidence of feathers. The 36-million-year-old birds may not yet have donned tuxedos, but they had by that point evolved the flippers and streamlined body to fly in water. The ancient bird, named
Inkayacu paracasensis, sported an extraordinarily long beak and a body twice the size of an emperor penguin. Scientists did not find actual feathers with the fossil, but they were able to pick up tiny "pigmentation packets" called melanosomes, which were distinctly different from the melanosomes of today's penguins. Scientists guessed that the change of coat may have been driven by the appearance of new predators or the demands of swimming underwater. The findings will be published today in the journal
Science.
melanoma
- 〔mèl
nóum〕
-
[名]（複〜s, 〜・ta 〔-t〕）《病理学》黒（色）腫(しゅ), 黒色素細胞腫.
beige (bāzh)
n.
- A light grayish brown or yellowish brown to grayish yellow.
- A soft fabric of undyed, unbleached wool.
adj.
Light grayish-brown or yellowish-brown to grayish-yellow.
[French, fine woolen fabric left in its natural color, from Old French
bege, perhaps from shortening of Old Italian
bambagia, cotton wool, ultimately from Medieval Latin
bombax, cotton. See
bombazine.]
adj. - 米色的, 灰棕色的
n. - 原色嗶嘰, 米黃色
日本語 (Japanese)n. - 生地のままの毛織物, ごくうすいとび色, ベージュ
adj. - ベージュ色の
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