CRI听力:High Definition Imagery Used in Photoing Insects

短语讲解：

1. While insects are not always appealing to the naked eye, this imaging technology lets collectors discover a new level of detail.

appeal to向…呼吁; 向…请求
例句：He earnestly appealed to his friends for support.
他恳切地向朋友请求支持。

2. High-definition cameras are bringing it all into focus, down to the smallest detail.

bring into focus使突出，使明朗化
例句：Your view has helped to bring the historical side of the matter into focus.
你的观点使这件事的历史渊源一清二楚了。

3. Cybertaxonomist Roy Larimer says the technology is similar to that used by computer game programmers and forensic scientists for crime-scene analysis.

be similar to与…相似
例句：My problems are very similar to yours.
我的问题和你的差不多。

4. It's used to analyze trace evidence-hair, fiber, documents-everything from fibers to tool marks and ballistics as well, because it shows tremendous detail.

be used to do被用来做某事
例句：Osier is used to make baskets.
柳条常用来编筐。

5. Once you photograph it, you see incredible detail-appendages and little antennae and claws and things that you couldn't see with the naked eye.

see with借助…看
例句：You can see distant objects with this special instrument.
用这台特殊仪器, 你可以看到远处的物体。

6. I started off doing all this work by hand, so it would take me around about a week to do a full dorsal view of an insect.

start off出发;开始
例句：At night I started off upon my journey.
当晚, 我又踏上了征程。
by hand用手的, 亲自的
例句：We received a typewritten letter with a note added by hand.
我们收到一封用打字机打出的信, 附有手写的一张字条。

7. To try and put some of our definitive type specimens, these very precious specimens, up on the web so that scientists all over the world can look at them without risking sending them overseas.

so that以便
例句：I will give you all the facts so that you can judge for yourself.
我会给你所有的事实以便你可以自己判断。
look at看, 注视
Mary looked at him waiting there.
玛丽看见他在那里等着。

8. Photographs of the museum's insect collection are expected to be catalogued, so the public can also get close up and personal with the critters they normally try to avoid.

be expected to预计, 期望
例句：House prices are expected to perk up.
房价预计会上涨。
close up (使)相互靠拢, (使)连接在一起
例句：The captain ordered his men to close up.
上尉命令士兵靠拢。