英语学习笔记:2017-05-16

Indochina

一个接近「东南亚的大陆部分」的地理概念

originally Indo-China, is a geographical term originating in the early nineteenth century and referring to the continental portion of the region now known as Southeast Asia. The name refers to the lands historically within the cultural influence of India and China, and physically bound by India in the west and China in the north. It corresponds to the present-day areas of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and (variably) peninsular Malaysia. The term was later adopted as the name of the colony of French Indochina (today's Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos), and the entire area of Indochina is now usually referred to as the Indochinese Peninsula or Mainland Southeast Asia.


tuatara

喙头蜥,一种非常珍贵的物种,仅仅在新西兰有

The name tuatara means “spiny back” in Māori. But their most extraordinary feature is in the middle of their heads.

The tuatara’s “third eye” is equipped with a lens, retina, cornea and connective tissue leading to the brain, but it is not used to see. Instead it is thought to be used for setting the tuatara's circadian rhythms.


Parietal eye

parietal eye 也可以称为第三只眼睛,这只眼睛也有晶状体、视网膜、角膜,可以连接到大脑的神经,需要蜥蜴都有 parietal eye

Wikipedia: A parietal eye, also known as a third eye or pineal eye, is a part of the epithalamus present in some animal species. The eye is photoreceptive and is associated with the pineal gland, regulating circadian rhythmicity and hormone production for thermoregulation.

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