英语听力：自然百科 大迁徙之繁衍生息 Need to Breed—19
时间：2018-12-03 作者：英语课 分类：自然百科2011年
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There is no mistaking yet. She is ready to mate. Finally, the lover/ unites a bit briefly 1. After two months, the breeding season is over. It is time for the long track back to their southern feeding grounds, but the females carrying the next generation of nomads 2, and fighters.
In the Falklands too, the mammoth 3 gladiators are turning away from their battlefields and the spectacular exodus 4 must now begin.
For the young, on these bleak 5 southern shores, it is the season of abandonment. With barely a backwards 6 glance, the starving elephant seal females desert their giant three-week-old babies on the shore.
The males, utterly 7 stunt 8, have nothing to do with their young.
With this abrupt 9 winning, the pups make their first forays into the shallows. They, too, will return to these shores after a thousand mile journeys.
The rockhopper parents also take lead of their young, heading back into the war with the joy of the creature, returning to its elements
1 briefly
adv.简单地，简短地
- I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
- He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
2 nomads
n.游牧部落的一员( nomad的名词复数 )；流浪者；游牧生活；流浪生活
- For ten years she dwelled among the nomads of North America. 她在北美游牧民中生活了十年。
- Nomads have inhabited this region for thousands of years. 游牧民族在这地区居住已有数千年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 mammoth
n.长毛象；adj.长毛象似的，巨大的
- You can only undertake mammoth changes if the finances are there.资金到位的情况下方可进行重大变革。
- Building the new railroad will be a mammoth job.修建那条新铁路将是一项巨大工程。
4 exodus
v.大批离去，成群外出
- The medical system is facing collapse because of an exodus of doctors.由于医生大批离去，医疗系统面临崩溃。
- Man's great challenge at this moment is to prevent his exodus from this planet.人在当前所遇到的最大挑战，就是要防止人从这个星球上消失。
5 bleak
adj.(天气)阴冷的；凄凉的；暗淡的
- They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
- The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。
6 backwards
adv.往回地，向原处，倒，相反，前后倒置地
- He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
- All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。
7 utterly
adv.完全地，绝对地
- Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民，把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
- I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。