 124  In the evening bats fly about up and down (3) in the air and catch insects. Their little teeth can bite hard insects. Bats are busiest in the evening. In the day-time they usually sleep in a dark place. Bats do not do us any harm. They help us because they eat insects which we do not like. In South America there is a bat which lives only on blood. Its throat is so narrow that only liquids can pass down it. This bat is not very big, only about four inches long, with wings about eight inches long when they are wide open. This little bat drinks the blood of animals and even of men. At night-time it flies into the house and comes down (4) on the sleeping person's arm or leg. It touches the skin so quietly that the man does not feel anything. Then the bat makes a veiy small bite with its teeth and begins to drink blood. The bat is so small that it does not drink a great deal of blood, but it takes enough to make the person feel ill. Some people think that bats cannot see, but that is not true. They have eyes and they can see, though they cannot see very well. But they have better ears than men have and they can hear things which we cannot hear. Bats can feel where a thing is though they do not touch it. That is why they can fly about in the dark and catch little insects which they cannot see. Примечавии (1) fore данном контексте имеет значение ибо, потому что (2) something like - нечто вроде; несколько похоже на (3) fly about up and down - перелетают с места на место, кружатся. Буквально: летают вокруг, вверх и вниз. Ср. сказанное о слове about в ур. 9. (4) comes down - опускается Новые слова act [aekt] v действовать; и дело, поступок, акт America [э'тепкэ] и Америка arm [a:m] п рука (от кисти до плеча) bat [bast] л летучая мышь bite [bait] v кусать; и уксус blood [bUd] л кровь busy [tiizi] а занятой; деятельный; трудолюбивый catch [kffitj] v ловить, поймать course [ko:s] n курс, ход; of course конечно, разумеется dark [da:k] а темный; n темнота deal [di:l] n количество; a great deal много 124 |
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