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单词 firefly
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  • Fireflies and glowworms make light to protect themselves.
  • Glowworms make light to scare other animals, and some fireflies make light to show they aren’t good to eat.
  • And in the trees there were owls, and in the bushes there were whip-poor-wills, and sometimes a mockingbird, but no other kinds of birds, and at night the fireflies were all about.
  • If man could emit light in relative proportion to his size as compared with the firefly, he would need no other torch in the coal-mine.
  • Outside innumerable fireflies studded the night with gold.
  • The fireflies of the West Indies emit a continuous glow of considerable luminous intensity and the natives have used these imprisoned insects as light-sources.
  • The wind was blowing, and there were fireflies, and the dogs were jumping up and down.

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firefly
A theory of complex reverberatory behaviour, first analysed in connection with interactions of fireflies, is shown to be applicable also to neural populations.
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Crystal structure offireflyluciferase throws light on a superfamily of adenylate-forming enzymes.
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Cut to the deck of an aircraft carrier scrambling fighter-bombers that disappear like fireflies in the sky.
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Fireflyluciferase : the structure is known, but the mystery remains.
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Fireflyluciferase consists of two domains of different size.
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It is the flash of afireflyin the night.
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It was merely afirefly, but we did not know that.
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But in my opinion, the passage cannot qualify as "repulsive"or"horrible," because it introduces a note of fantasy with thefirefly.
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The bay is known for the mirages on the horizon during the winter months and for being a spawning ground for thefireflysquid.
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However, the aunt notices something - under the tin are two small, glowing fireflies.
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However, he gets out with the help of fireflies.
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Infirefly, oxidation of luciferins, which is catalyzed by luciferases, yields a peroxy compound 1,2-dioxetane.
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Other important thiazole dervatives are benzothiazoles, for example, thefireflychemical luciferin.
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Her movements are dependent on how thefireflymoves, and the player aims to guide her through worlds containing various obstacles.
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These fireflies are most noticeable around twilight, in the early part of the evening and hover close to the ground.
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