Let's take rubber necking, for example.
以“引颈旁观(rubber necking)”为例。
I'm just necking this straight off then.
那我就直接口闷了这。
Baffling, right? We were necking like a couple of hooligans under the school bleachers.
很莫名其妙,对吧?本来我还像在学校看台下的小氓样亲亲我我。
But people still know what you mean if you say you saw a couple necking in the woods.
但当你说看见对情侣在树林里深情亲,还是懂你是什么意的。
Another popular more modern theory is that giraffes have such long necks because of a special behavior called necking.
另行的、更现代的理论是长颈鹿之所以长着这么长的脖子,是因为种叫做颈的特殊行为。
And giraffes that are better at necking and winning are more likely to reproduce, making more babies with long, thick necks.
更擅长颈,并因此获胜的长颈鹿更有可能繁殖下去,生出更多脖子又长又粗的小长颈鹿。
Rubber necking is when drivers slow down on a road to look closely at a wreck or something else eye-catching as they are passing.
“引颈旁观”指的是路上司机经过车祸(wreck)或是其他引注目的事物时,将车辆减速以仔细观看的行为。
One of the neighbor ladies saw me, and she called my mother up and is like, " Eleanor, Debba is necking with Eric." -Awkward.
-位邻居女士看到我,她打电话给我妈妈说, “埃莉诺,黛巴在和埃里克亲热。 ” -尴尬。
Another idea about giraffe neck evolution--one supported by Discokeryx's bone structure--is that neck lengthening was driven by behavior shown in competition for mates like the " necking" seen in giraffes today.
关于长颈鹿脖子进化的另种观点——这观点由獬豸盘角鹿的骨骼结构得以论证——进化成和如今的长颈鹿样长的脖子是由争夺配偶的行为驱动的。
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