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Nonfiction (English-Thai) #6 Discussion

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6.  Hundreds of species of marine life manage to survive even in the darkest depths of the ocean.  They have evolved some ingenious devices for locating their food and enemies.  Where the light is very dim, some have developed enormous eyes with almost telescopic lenses, very much like those of owls.  Others, especially the fish, are quite blind but have developed long feelers that enable them to identify and collect stray bits of food that come within a considerable radius of them.  Some inhabitants of the deep supply their own light. They have built-in torches they can switch on and off depending on whether they are pursuing or being pursued. Some have spots of steady light which spread a faint glow through the water around them. It is supposed that about half of the varieties of fish living in the dark depths of the ocean have some power of illumination. All in all, it would seem that nature has provided its deep-sea creatures with many solutions to the problem of their habitat. 

Reference

• owl eyes

  • Owl Eyes and Vision

    In fact, the eyes are so well developed, that they are not eye balls as such, but elongated tubes.

  • British Garden Birds: Sight

    An owl's eyeball is more like a tube and this increases the focal length of the eye, and gives it telescopic vision, and large irises that can open its pupils very wide and gather lots of light.

  • How Owls See and Hear

    Another attribute that may help account for an owl’s extraordinary eyesight is the shape of its eye. It’s tubular, not spherical like ours. This tubular shape gives the owl good telescopic vision.

  • Ways of the Owl

    The barred owls, however, exhibit the most marvelous powers of sight, and their eyes may well be called telescopic.

Discussion

• marine life – สัตว์ทะเล

• species – ชนิด

• evolve – วิวัฒนาการ

• develop – ค่อยๆ งอก สร้าง เกิด มี

• ingenious – พิเศษ

• devices – ร่างกาย?บางส่วน อวัยวะ

  device – เครื่องมือ อุปกรณ์ 

  1. f: a piece of equipment or a mechanism designed to serve a special purpose or perform a special function <an electronic device> (Merriam-Webster)

   

• locate –

  ที่ช่วยให้รู้ว่าอาหารและศัตรูอยู่ที่ใด

   

• dim (light) – มัว สลัว น้อย (ริบ)หรี่

• enormous – huge, giant; ยักษ์ มหึมา มโหฬาร ใหญ่โต เบ้อเริ่ม เขื่อง เป้ง

• telescope – กล้องส่องทางไกล กล้องโทรทรรศน์

  telescopic –

  1. Of or relating to a telescope.

  2. Seen or obtained by means of a telescope: telescopic data.

  3. Visible only by means of a telescope: a bright star with a telescopic companion.

  4. Capable of discerning distant objects: telescopic vision.

  5. Extensible or compressible by or as if by the sliding of overlapping sections.

   

  almost telescopic lenses – ทำนองเลนส์โทรทรรศน์ ยืดเข้ายืดออกได้  

• very much like – คล้าย แทบจะเหมือน คล้ายมาก ทำนองเดียวกับ ทีเดียว

   

• quite – (adverb) rather;

  1.   to a degree (not used with a negative); rather

        Ex. quite tasty; quite soon; quite ill; quite rich

  2.   to the greatest extent; completely;

         Ex. you're quite right; she was quite alone; was quite mistaken; quite the opposite; not quite finished; did not quite make it

  3.   of an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative)

        Ex. her victory was quite something; she's quite a girl; quite a film; quite a walk; we've had quite an afternoon

  4.   actually or truly or to an extreme

        Ex. was quite a sudden change; it's quite the thing to do; quite the rage; Quite so!

   

• identify –

   

• considerable – (adj) large in amount, extent, or degree

case study: sentence 

Some have spots of steady light which spread a faint glow through the water around them.

บ้างก็มีจุดตามตัวส่องน้ำรอบๆ ให้เรืองแสง  

บ้างก็มีแสงเป็นจุดๆ ตามตัวส่องน้ำรอบๆ ให้เรืองแสง  

• torch – (n) คบ (American) ไฟฉาย (British)

  1. a. A portable light produced by the flame of a stick of resinous wood or of a flammable material wound about the end of a stick of wood; a flambeau.

  b. Chiefly British A flashlight.

  2. Something that serves to illuminate, enlighten, or guide.

  3. Slang An arsonist.

  4. A portable apparatus that produces a very hot flame by the combustion of gases, used in welding and construction.

• it is supposed that –

  suppose

  v.tr.

  1. To assume to be true or real for the sake of argument or explanation: Suppose we win the lottery.

  2. a. To believe, especially on uncertain or tentative grounds: Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps. b. To consider to be probable or likely: I suppose it will rain.

  3. To imply as an antecedent condition; presuppose: "Patience must suppose pain" Samuel Johnson.

  4. To consider as a suggestion: Suppose we dine together.

  v.intr.

  To imagine; conjecture.

   

• all in all – Everything being taken into account

  Ex. All in all, the criticism seemed fair.

  จะว่าไปแล้ว สรุปว่า ทั้งนี้และทั้งนั้น โดยสรุปแล้ว  

   

case study: sentence

It is supposed that about half of the varieties of fish living in the dark depths of the ocean have some power of illumination.

ในบรรดาชนิดปลาต่างๆ สันนิษฐานว่าประมาณครึ่งหนึ่งเปล่งแสงได้

Vocabulary

• considerable – 

• lens, lenses – เลนส์

• habitat – 

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