赖世雄英语新闻听力通 第14期:早期人类将稀有物种猎捕殆尽
时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:赖世雄英语新闻听力通
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(San Francisco,AP)Prehistoric human hunters,using spears and fire, drove many large animals to extinction 1.
(美联社旧金山电)史前时期的猎人使用矛与火猎捕许多大型动物,迫使它们绝种。
About 13,000 years ago, large mammoths, huge antelope 2 and very tall camels, populated North America.
大约在一万三千年前,北美地区栖息许多体型巨大的长毛象、大羚羊与长得很高的骆驼。
All disappeared within a thousand years or so after the first Americans migrated from Asia.
第一批亚洲人迁徙到美洲之后,这些大型动物大约在一千年之内全数消失。
They had moved across a dry land bridge between the two continents.
这些亚洲人越过连接这两块大陆的干陆桥来到美洲。
1 extinction
n.熄灭,消亡,消灭,灭绝,绝种
- The plant is now in danger of extinction.这种植物现在有绝种的危险。
- The island's way of life is doomed to extinction.这个岛上的生活方式注定要消失。