1·Carnivorous plants are, in fact, very inefficient at converting sunlight into tissue.
事实上，食肉植物在将阳光转化为组织方面效率很低。
2·In several cases, scientists can see how complex carnivorous plants evolved from simpler ones.
在一些案例中，科学家可以看到复杂的食肉植物是如何从简单的植物进化而来的。
3·Large carnivorous plants in some hot and wet areas have been known to capture rats, birds, and frogs.
在一些湿热地带，大型食肉植物能够捕捉老鼠、鸟类和青蛙。
4·But even if the poaching of carnivorous plants can be halted, they will continue to suffer from other assaults.
但是，即使能够停止对食肉植物的偷猎，它们仍将遭受其它的攻击。
5·While such plants clearly thrive on being carnivorous, the benefits of eating flesh are not the ones you might expect.
虽然这类植物显然以食肉为生，但它们吃肉的好处却不是你想象的那样。
1·Some carnivorous plants that look nearly identical turn out to be only distantly related.
一些看起来几乎相同的肉食植物实际上只是远亲关系。
2·For more than a century, Tyrannosaurus rex has been the King of Dinosaurs, the carnivorous symbol of an entire age in the history of life on Earth.
近一个多世纪以来，雷克斯暴龙不但成为了恐龙帝国的统治者，更是整个地球生命史的肉食象征。
3·The poor soil of bogs, for example, offers little nitrogen and phosphorus, so carnivorous plants enjoy an advantage over plants that obtain these nutrients by more conventional means.
例如，沼泽贫瘠的土壤提供的氮和磷很少，所以肉食植物比那些通过更传统的方式获得这些营养的植物更有优势。
4·Early humans may have evolved as prey animals rather than as predators, suggest the remains of our prehistoric primate ancestors that were devoured by hungry birds and carnivorous mammals.
早期人类更多的是作为一个猎物，而不是猎人。新发现的史前灵长类祖先化石验证了这一点，他们经常被饥饿的鸟类和肉食哺乳动物吞食。
5·In fact, I love indulging in carnivorous delights – I have even overcome my beef with pigs – and sometimes stand weak before the temptations of the flesh.
其实，我非常享受肉类美食——虽然我已经强迫自己以猪肉替代了牛肉——有时还是难以抗拒肉食的诱惑。
1·Carnivorous plants are so finely tuned to low levels of nitrogen that this extra fertilizer is overloading their systems, and they eventually burn themselves out and die.
肉食性植物能很好地适应低浓度氮，因此这些额外的肥料会使它们的系统负担过重，最终它们会被压垮并死亡。
2·The carnivorous calamari, which can grow up to 100 pounds, came up from the depths last week and swarms of them roughed up unsuspecting divers.
这种肉食性枪乌贼来自深海，能长到100磅重。上周，它们成群结队来到游客聚集的海滩，攻击毫无戒备的潜水者。
3·Bladderworts have just been named the world's fastest trapping carnivorous plants.
狸藻类植物是世界上诱捕速度最快的肉食性植物。
4·Polar bears are the only completely carnivorous bears.
北极熊是唯一完全肉食性的熊。
5·Although he is carnivorous, he will also eat vegetables, and when sickly he will nibble grass.
他虽然是肉食性，他也会吃蔬菜，害病的时候，他会蚕食草。