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【经济学人】双语阅读：空中旅行 起飞准备 【经济学人】双语阅读：节肢动物学情人为食 Science and technology 科学技术 Arachnology 节肢动物学 Having a mate for dinner 情人为食 Male spiders make the supreme sacrifice for their children 雄蛛对后代的无私奉献 AMONG spiders, the female of the species really is more deadly than the male. 蜘蛛家族中,雌蛛致命性比雄蛛高得多。交配后将配偶狼吞虎咽地吃掉，雌蛛因此声名在外。 Lady arachnids have a well-deserved reputation for polishing off their suitors, post copula, in a manner that Hannibal Lecter might have admired. 它们的这一行为或许在一定程度上赢得了汉尼拔莱克特的敬仰， But it has never been clear why this happens. 然而其原因一直不为人所知。 Some biologists believe it is simply a mixture of