英语听力：自然百科 大迁徙 Great Migrations—4
时间：2019-01-22 作者：英语课 分类：自然百科2010年
英语课
Only the fit and the lucky will inherit the relay race of their lives. It is a race that is increasingly endangered like many of the world's great migrations 1. Climate change disrupts weather patterns and exploding human populations encroach on their ancient paths.But today they take up their relentless 2 legacy 3. To move, chasing the rains.
Rain, wherever it falls, life waits for it, yearns 4 for it, and above all, moves according to its whims 5. Water from the skies is a reminder 6 to all land-dwelling species that their origins were in the seas. And nowhere is this more remarkably 7 played out than on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean called "Christmas Island".
Deep in the forests, far from the shores where any sensible crustacean 8 should be, red crabs 9, the size of dinner plates, hear the call of the monsoon 10. It's time to return to the seas of their birth. With the humidity soaring, their moisture-dependent lungs can now function beyond the damp confines of the forest. The males go first, like generals at the head of a red tank division. They begin their clicking, yearly march to breed. Millions of generations have engineered these crabs for life on land, but their young must hatch in the ocean.
n.迁移，移居( migration的名词复数 )
- It foundered during the turmoils accompanying the Great Migrations. 它在随着民族大迁徙而出现的混乱中崩溃。 来自辞典例句
- Birds also have built-in timepieces which send them off on fall and spring migrations. 鸟类也有天生的时间感应器指导它们秋春迁移。 来自互联网
adj.残酷的，不留情的，无怜悯心的
- The traffic noise is relentless.交通车辆的噪音一刻也不停止。
- Their training has to be relentless.他们的训练必须是无情的。
n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西
- They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
- He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。
渴望，切盼，向往( yearn的第三人称单数 )
- Every man yearns for sympathy in sorrow. 每个遇到不幸的人都渴望得到同情。
- What I dread is to get into a rut. One yearns for freshness of thought and ideas. 我害怕的就是墨守成规。人总是向往新思想和新观念的。
虚妄，禅病
- The mate observed regretfully that he could not account for that young fellow's whims. 那位伙伴很遗憾地说他不能说出那年轻人产生怪念头的原因。
- The rest she had for food and her own whims. 剩下的钱她用来吃饭和买一些自己喜欢的东西。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
n.提醒物，纪念品；暗示，提示
- I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
- It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。
ad.不同寻常地，相当地
- I thought she was remarkably restrained in the circumstances. 我认为她在那种情况下非常克制。
- He made a remarkably swift recovery. 他康复得相当快。
n.甲壳动物；adj.甲壳纲的
- Seafood is a valuable lobster crustacean section.名贵海珍品龙虾属甲壳科。
- The illustrious Cuvier did not perceive that a barnacle was a crustacean.大名鼎鼎的居维叶也未看出藤壶是一种甲壳动物。
n.蟹( crab的名词复数 )；阴虱寄生病；蟹肉v.捕蟹( crab的第三人称单数 )
- As we walked along the seashore we saw lots of tiny crabs. 我们在海岸上散步时看到很多小蟹。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The fish and crabs scavenge for decaying tissue. 鱼和蟹搜寻腐烂的组织为食。 来自《简明英汉词典》