时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:2017年NPR美国国家公共电台2月


英语课

 


STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:


The BBC series "Planet Earth" was one of the first blockbuster high-definition TV shows a decade ago. Tomorrow, "Planet Earth II" debuts 1 on BBC America. And this time, it is said to be in ultrahigh def. Reporter Will Huntsberry found an early sign of its popularity. The online trailer promoting this has already been seen more than 9 million times.


WILL HUNTSBERRY, BYLINE 2: The two-minute online clip has all the tension of the best chase scenes. There's just a sandy strip of ground with a baby iguana 3 and a whole lot of hungry snakes.


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "PLANET EARTH II")


HUNTSBERRY: The baby iguana makes a dash for safety. The snakes are close behind. It's about to get away. But then...


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "PLANET EARTH II")


HUNTSBERRY: ...The iguana is swallowed in a swarming 4 ball. Incredibly, it gets free. It jumps for the highest rock. And...


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "PLANET EARTH II")


DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: (As narrator) A near-miraculous escape.


HUNTSBERRY: David Attenborough, famed naturalist 5 and narrator.


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "PLANET EARTH II")


ATTENBOROUGH: (As narrator) The lucky survivors 6 could begin learning the unique way of life demanded by this hostile island.


HUNTSBERRY: "Planet Earth II" uses all the devices of narrative 7 filmmaking. There is emotional scoring, heavy editing and, most crucially, an individual animal's struggle to survive. Along with ultrahigh definition cameras, the series uses innovations in photography, like drones and lightweight steady cams, to get right up next to animals. Here's the show's executive producer, Mike Gunton.


MIKE GUNTON: Once you're with those creatures - once you're in their world, almost looking at it through their eyes, you can tell a slightly more emotionally connecting story.


HUNTSBERRY: The biggest departure from the first series is an entire episode devoted 8 to cities. Most of the episode shows animals thriving in human environments until we meet sea turtle hatchlings in Barbados. Instead of heading towards the moonlight and the sea, they're heading towards the street lights and a road.


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "PLANET EARTH II")


ATTENBOROUGH: (As narrator) The lights become more and more bewildering. Eighty percent of all hatchlings on this beach are now disorientated by the lights of the town.


HUNTSBERRY: The series strives for wonder. But each episode of "Planet Earth II" includes at least one scene like this, illustrating 9 nature's increasing fragility.


For NPR News, I'm Will Huntsberry.


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演员首次演出( debut的名词复数 )
  • He never really debuts the idea of taking money from his parents any longer. 他从此就再也没有认真起过向父母要钱的念头。
  • This young soprano debuts next month at the metropolitan opera. 这位年轻的女高音歌唱家下个月将在纽约大都会歌剧院举行首演。
n.署名;v.署名
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
n.美洲大蜥蜴,鬣鳞蜥
  • With an iguana,you really don't have to say surprise.惊喜两字已经不足以形容这只鬣鳞蜥了。
  • I'm going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguanadj.打开计算机准备制作一部关于我的宠物蜥蜴的电影。
密集( swarm的现在分词 ); 云集; 成群地移动; 蜜蜂或其他飞行昆虫成群地飞来飞去
  • The sacks of rice were swarming with bugs. 一袋袋的米里长满了虫子。
  • The beach is swarming with bathers. 海滩满是海水浴的人。
n.博物学家(尤指直接观察动植物者)
  • He was a printer by trade and naturalist by avocation.他从事印刷业,同时是个博物学爱好者。
  • The naturalist told us many stories about birds.博物学家给我们讲述了许多有关鸟儿的故事。
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
n.叙述,故事;adj.叙事的,故事体的
  • He was a writer of great narrative power.他是一位颇有记述能力的作家。
  • Neither author was very strong on narrative.两个作者都不是很善于讲故事。
adj.忠诚的,忠实的,热心的,献身于...的
  • He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
给…加插图( illustrate的现在分词 ); 说明; 表明; (用示例、图画等)说明
  • He upstaged the other speakers by illustrating his talk with slides. 他演讲中配上幻灯片,比其他演讲人更吸引听众。
  • Material illustrating detailed structure of graptolites has been etched from limestone by means of hydrofluoric acid. 表明笔石详细构造的物质是利用氢氟酸从石灰岩中侵蚀出来。
学英语单词
active immunity
ajaccios
Almyropotamos
Ameca
amedo
angon
average daily calling rate
ball and inner ring assembly
barge to barge transfer
bills drawn under letter of credit
binary to decimal conversion
binnein mor
blowing spray
bomb calorimeters
branches at home and abroad
brick laid with mortar
capricorn beetle
carib woods
chimbley
complete set of eigenstates
contact flange
core and winding assembly
darrayne
disprovide
diverting dam
draw ... up
drift epoch
droseras
electron paramagnetic resonance
europium acetate
exchange volume
field investment
flairing
gemmifications
general call signal
Gentiloni
genus pedilanthuss
global liquidity
gone over
Hai Phong
heat-producing reaction
hflo
independent fault
inlaces
internal fuel
ionic speaker
irreversible circulation
ks-standard loading
latex examination gloves
LAVINIA
lipophilic compound
literatize
Loboc
macrocyclic compounds
metal-semiconductor-metal diode
monosuits
nonpsychological
notched furnace
oil sump tank
pallidofugal
Parafasciolopsis
pass-over offset
pentaradiate
pickup points
Pillsbury, Lake
plaque-infested port
plasma lipids
playdohs
public lawyer
Puccinia epimedii
put one's best foot first
radicicol
ratten-
readmitance
reclaiming by centrifuge
red-shank
relational instruction
resource productivity
sampling length
scare someone out of his wits
seasonal group profile code
settleability test
small wiring
soft corruption
spoliation
steam and gas
stereochemical formula
sun-bathing
suppression hangover time
tax reimbursement for export
thermofocal
tracepoint
tunnel in rock
twofold degeneracy
uncorrugated
unfavorable variance
union colourimeter
wetting of cloth
whidder
Wycakon-G
yudha