British Vision Issue 89 遵循自然还是人为干预？
A German zoo, under fire for letting a mother polar bear eat its five-week-old cub 1, apparently 2, has bowed to public pressure, and decided 3 to hand-rear its last surviving baby.
Their decisions to intervene, rather than let nature take its course, follows last year's worldwide campaign to save Knut, a young Berlin polar bear. Sue Turten reports.
The five-week-old cub was taken from its mother, Vera, after a public outcry in the German press. Polar bear mom eats her babies. Vera seen here is the bear in public disgrace, but in spite of her behaviour, the zoo in Nuremberg was going to leave their only surviving cub with its mother Vera, saying nature should take its course.
Up until now, we did not have any indication that the mother does not take exemplary care of her cub, therefore we clearly favoured a natural upbringing, just recently, we had clear evidence that the mother did not behave correctly any more, and therefore we intervened.
Comparisons have inevitably 4 been made with Knut, the cub in Berlin, who was rejected by his mother last year, and reared by keepers in spite of protests by animal rights campaigners.
What can I say? I think it's not very different in nature, where the animals are on their own. Should they interfere 5 here? I don't know what's right, but I think what they are doing is ok.
It's hoped this cub will not let all the publicity 6 go to its head, Knut now has his own blog and TV show, he's been in Vanity Fair.
- The lion cub's mother was hunting for what she needs. 这只幼师的母亲正在捕猎。
- The cub licked the milk from its mother's breast. 这头幼兽吸吮着它妈妈的奶水。
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- In the way you go on,you are inevitably coming apart.照你们这样下去，毫无疑问是会散伙的。
- Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment.技术变革必然会导致失业。
- If we interfere, it may do more harm than good.如果我们干预的话，可能弊多利少。
- When others interfere in the affair,it always makes troubles. 别人一卷入这一事件，棘手的事情就来了。