英语听书《海底两万里》第449期 第27章 南极(8)
时间：2018-12-31 作者：英语课 分类：《海底两万里》中英双语有声读物
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It was eight o'clock in the morning. We had four hours to ourselves before the sun could be productively observed. 时间是早晨八点。太阳可以供我们观察利用的时间只剩下四小时了。
I guided our steps toward a huge bay that made a crescent-shaped incision 1 in the granite 2 cliffs along the beach. 我向一处宽大的港湾一步步走去，湾作斩月形，在花岗石的悬崖中间。
There, all about us, I swear that the shores and ice floes were crowded with marine 3 mammals as far as the eye could see, and I involuntarily looked around for old Proteus, that mythological 4 shepherd who guarded King Neptune's immense flocks. 在那里，我简直可以说，我们周围，陆地上和冰层上，一望无际都是被海中哺乳动物挤满了，我眼光不期然而然地找那老头蒲罗德，他是神话中给海神涅豆尼看守家畜群的老收人。
To be specific, these were seals. 海豹特别多。
They formed distinct male-and-female groups, the father watching over his family, the mother suckling her little ones, the stronger youngsters emancipated 5 a few paces away. 它们形成个别分开的队伍，雄的和雌的一起，父海豹关心它的家族，母海豹给它的小海豹喂奶，有些已经壮大的年轻海豹随意走开；在远一些的地方。
When these mammals wanted to relocate, they moved in little jumps made by contracting their bodies, clumsily helped by their imperfectly developed flippers, which, as with their manatee 6 relatives, form actual forearms. 当这些哺乳动物要走动的时候，它们由于躯体的伸缩，一跳一跳地走，同时它们相当笨，拿它们的不发达的鳍来帮助走动，但这鳍在它们的同类海牛身上，就成为真正的前臂了。
n．切口，切开
- The surgeon made a small incision in the patient's cornea.外科医生在病人的眼角膜上切开一个小口。
- The technique involves making a tiny incision in the skin.这项技术需要在皮肤上切一个小口。
adj.花岗岩，花岗石
- They squared a block of granite.他们把一块花岗岩加工成四方形。
- The granite overlies the older rocks.花岗岩躺在磨损的岩石上面。
adj.海的；海生的；航海的；海事的；n.水兵
- Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
- When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
adj.神话的
- He is remembered for his historical and mythological works. 他以其带有历史感和神话色彩的作品而著称。
- But even so, the cumulative process had for most Americans a deep, almost mythological significance. 不过即使如此，移民渐增的过程，对于大部分美国人，还是意味深长的，几乎有不可思议的影响。
adj.被解放的，不受约束的v.解放某人（尤指摆脱政治、法律或社会的束缚）( emancipate的过去式和过去分词 )
- Slaves were not emancipated until 1863 in the United States. 美国奴隶直到1863年才获得自由。
- Women are still struggling to be fully emancipated. 妇女仍在为彻底解放而斗争。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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