VOA慢速英语:Snake Robot Acts Like Real Snake

短语讲解：

1. Mr. Goldman and other researchers wrote about their findings in the journal Science.

write about 写…的事，写到…
例句：what the critics are going to write about your show yet. 
评论家们会对你的展览写些什么。 

2. “We noticed that the animals were in fact sidewinding, using the same kind of pattern of sidewinding they use on hard ground, but laying instead of only a few points of contact on the body contacting the ground, they were essentially laying more and more snake body down on the hill as the incline angle increased.”

instead of （用…）代替…， （是…）而不是…， （用…）而不用…
例句：I should take my rest now instead of later. 
我现在就得休息，而不是一会。 

3. "It turned out they had actually been using the sidewinding gait in their robot for many years to traverse all kinds of ground, but always had trouble on sandy dune inclines."

turn out 结果是; 关掉; 制造
例句：They can not have foresee how thing will turn out. 
他们不可能预知事情的结果。 

4. The researchers performed the same experiment with other snakes closely related to the rattlers.

relate to 涉及; 同…有…关系
例句：All these questions relate to philosophy. 
这些问题都跟哲学有关。