英语听力：Wild China 美丽中国 -11
时间：2019-02-05 作者：英语课 分类：英语听力：文化博览2008年
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But the visitors are not what they seem.
Zhe Shuzheng and her son live nearby. Zhe has been caring for her local alligators 2 for over 20 years, so she had a fair idea when the eggs were likely to hatch 3. Back home, she's built a pond, surrounded by netting to keep out predators 4 where her charges will spend the next 6 months until they are big enough to fend 5 for themselves.
For the past 20 years, small-scale conservation projects like this are all that have kept China's 150 wild alligators from extinction 6.
Just south of the alligator 1 country, dawn breaks over a very different landscape -- the 1800-meter-high granite 7 peaks of the Huangshan or Yellow Mountain. To the Chinese, Huangshan's pines epitomize the strength and resilience of nature. Some of these trees are thought to be over a thousand years old.
Below the granite peaks, steep forested valleys shelter surprising inhabitants, Huangshan macaques, rare descendants 8 of the Tibetan macaques of western China are unique to these mountain valleys where they enjoy strict official protection.
After a morning spent in the treetops, the troop is heading for the shade of the valley, a chance for the grownups to escape the heat and maybe pick up a lunch snack from the stream.
As in most monkey societies, social contact involves a lot of grooming 9. Grooming is all very well for grownups. But young macaques have energy to burn.
Like so much monkey business, what starts off as a bit of playful rough-and-tumble soon begins to get out of hand.
The alpha male has seen it all before. He's not in the least bothered. But someone or something is watching, with a less-than-friendly interest.
n.短吻鳄(一种鳄鱼)
- She wandered off to play with her toy alligator.她开始玩鳄鱼玩具。
- Alligator skin is five times more costlier than leather.鳄鱼皮比通常的皮革要贵5倍。
n.短吻鳄( alligator的名词复数 )
- Two alligators rest their snouts on the water's surface. 两只鳄鱼的大嘴栖息在水面上。 来自辞典例句
- In the movement of logs by water the lumber industry was greatly helped by alligators. 木材工业过去在水上运输木料时所十分倚重的就是鳄鱼。 来自辞典例句
n.孵化，舱口；vt.孵，孵出，策划；vi. 孵化
- No one knows how the new plan will hatch out.谁也不知道这新方案将怎样制订出来。
- The bird mistook the pebble for egg and tried to hatch it.这只鸟错把卵石当蛋，想去孵它。
n.食肉动物( predator的名词复数 )；奴役他人者（尤指在财务或性关系方面）
- birds and their earthbound predators 鸟和地面上捕食它们的动物
- The eyes of predators are highly sensitive to the slightest movement. 捕食性动物的眼睛能感觉到最细小的动静。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.照料（自己），（自己）谋生，挡开，避开
- I've had to fend for myself since I was 14.我从十四岁时起就不得不照料自己。
- He raised his arm up to fend branches from his eyes.他举手将树枝从他眼前挡开。
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。
adj.花岗岩，花岗石
- They squared a block of granite.他们把一块花岗岩加工成四方形。
- The granite overlies the older rocks.花岗岩躺在磨损的岩石上面。
n. 修饰, 美容，（动物）梳理毛发
- You should always pay attention to personal grooming. 你应随时注意个人仪容。
- We watched two apes grooming each other. 我们看两只猩猩在互相理毛。