英伦广角 2013-08-31 为消除牛肺结核病 英国大肆捕杀獾
英语课
This is middle England's response to the badger 1 cull 2,ordinary people out at night,trying to protect their local wildlife. As the sun set,the Wounded Badger Patrol set off on its peaceful mission led by ***.
-As you can see the very middle England people, they are here today. They aren't extreme activists 3.We are here to speak for the badgers 4 and also to try to talk to people and explain to our members that the science is just not backing this cull.
Over six weeks around 5000 badgers be shot by trained marksmen in west Gloucestershire on west Somerset ,try and stop the spread of TB in cattle.Some groups have suggested they will take more direct action to stand in the way of those involved in the cull.
-The sound that you hear,it sounds and has been described like this many times,it is the sound like a woman being absolutely tortured and murdered.
Yet for these campaigners finding and helping 5 the endangered badgers is their priority.
-In terms of animal welfare,it's just not right,not right for badgers and once we focus on shooting badgers,we are not actually addressing the issue of how Bovine 6 TB spread within farms.
Even if that means walking the countryside in the dark which shooting due to take place at dusk and dawn.
Tonight this has been a practice for the wounded badger patrolers,but they know that over the next six weeks,they are gonna have to do all of these for real.
For now they simply have to wait,aware that they can not stop this cull but not prepared to simply walk away.
v.一再烦扰，一再要求，纠缠
- Now that our debts are squared.Don't badger me with them any more.我们的债务两清了。从此以后不要再纠缠我了。
- If you badger him long enough,I'm sure he'll agree.只要你天天纠缠他，我相信他会同意。
v.拣选；剔除；n.拣出的东西；剔除
- It is usually good practice to cull the poorest prior to field planting.通常在实践上的好方法是在出圃栽植前挑出最弱的苗木。
- Laura was passing around photographs she'd culled from the albums at home.劳拉正在分发她从家里相册中挑选出的相片。
n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.獾( badger的名词复数 )；獾皮；（大写）獾州人（美国威斯康星州人的别称）；毛鼻袋熊
- Badgers had undermined the foundations of the church. 獾在这座教堂的地基处打了洞。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- And rams ' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood. 5染红的公羊皮，海狗皮，皂荚木。 来自互联网
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。