【botany】 - SAT备考词汇

botany

UK:  ['bɒtəni]

US:  ['bɒtəni]

复数：botanies  

n.

1.〔总称〕一个地区的植物

2.植物生态

3.植物学书籍[论著]

4.澳洲细羊毛

adj.

1.澳洲细羊毛的

1 . He telephoned Johnny's Uncle Peter, an expert in botany, and asked him if he would let Johnny live with him.
他给约翰的叔叔彼得，一个植物学专家，打电话问他是否可以让小约翰和他住在一起。

2 . Dickinson studied botany from the age of nine and, along with her sister, tended the garden at Homestead.
迪金森九岁的时候，开始与妹妹一起学习植物学并照管家中的花园。

3 . He examined and tested the plant, but it did not belong to his system of botany, nor could he possibly find out to what class it did belong.
他检查和测试工厂，但它不属于他的植物体系，他可能也无法找到它没有什么阶级归属。

4 . These phenomena may be observed just as well as the phenomena of botany or physics in laboratories, but we seldom see this.
这些现象可以像实验室观察植物或物理现象一样加以观察，但我们很少看到这一点。

5 . These were some of the questions Charles Darwin asked himself over years of research in botany, zoology and geology.
多年来，查尔斯.达尔文在研究植物学、动物学和地质学时，一直在思考着这些问题。