时间:2019-03-10 作者:英语课 分类:双语有声阅读


英语课
How Do People Treat Animals?
 
人们是怎样对待动物的?
Many people now keep animals as pets.
如今,许多人把动物当作宠物来养。
Some people have cats and dogs in their houses.
一些人在家里养猫养狗。
Other people like fish,caged birds, tortoises 1 and even snakes, monkeys or lions.
另一些人喜欢养鱼,鸟,乌龟,甚至蛇,猴子还有狮子。
Millions of dollars and much time are spent every year on pet food,equipment, taming 2 and medical treatment.
每年上百万美元的金钱和大量的时间花在养宠物所需的食物,设施,驯养以及医疗保健上。
Of course,there are some people who do not look after their pets properly or are even cruel to them.
当然有些人并不善待动物,甚至虐待它们。
For this reason a royal society was created in 1824 in Britain to prevent cruel treatment of animals.
为此,1824年英国成立了皇家动物保护协会,防止人们虐待动物。
In contrast to the love of pets is the fact
与人们对宠物的热爱相反,
that blood sports still exist in most countries.
血腥的运动仍然存在于大多数国家。
People hunt foxes, elephants,pandas, ducks rabbits, pheasants pheasants and other animals,
人们捕猎狐狸,大象,熊猫,野鸭,野兔和其他动物,
not because they need the meat to eat,but just for pleasure.
并不是因为要吃肉,而是为了寻开心。
In some countries, blood sports like bull-fighting and cock-fighting are common
在有些国家,斗牛,斗鸡等血腥运动还非常普遍,
and hunting rare animals for commercial purpose
而捕猎珍惜动物以获取商业利益
has brought about an even more serious problem in the protection of the ecosystem 3.
更是带来了非常严峻的问题,在生态系统的保护方面。
It is strange that people love certain animals,
奇怪的是人们喜爱有些动物,
but enjoy cruelly killing 4 others.
却又乐于以残酷的方式残杀另一些动物。

n.乌龟( tortoise的名词复数 );行动迟缓的人(或物)
  • Very small tortoises must be given a shorter, carefully controlled hibernation. 非常小的龟龟需要短期的,非常小心控制下的冬眠。 来自互联网
  • Ten tiny tortoises tried to talk to twenty timid toads. 十个瘦小的乌龟试着和二十个胆小的蟾蜍聊天。 来自互联网
(使)服从,驯服( tame的现在分词 )
  • There are many reports of people taming and even training Indian rhinos. 有许多关于人们驯养甚至训练印度犀牛的记载。
  • She is an expert in taming animals. 她是一个驯兽专家。
n.生态系统
  • This destroyed the ecosystem of the island.这样破坏了岛上的生态系统。
  • We all have an interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem.维持生态系统的完整是我们共同的利益。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
学英语单词
a calcium compound
administrative trial organ
agent-neutral
antiatrophic
antispermatogenic
archeopallium
Bay of Ob
benzyltetrahydroisoquinolines
biological factors
borovoy
Campbeltown
carrier coprecipitation
chart lamp
cheilanthes hirsuta mett.
chlorobromacetate
chloromethyl ether
coalifications
columnlike
concanavalins
cyclohexanediones
dead melt
delta bar
demuxes
department responsibility for spending
direct broadcast satellite system
eccentric clamp
edge margin
egotise
evening classes
extra-heavy duty
facing up
fee simple subject to condition subsequent
friction type vacuum gauge
Hawaiian Trough
heteroannular diene
high modulus fibre
icteroid
ignoramuses
intensity of colour
irretrievable breakdown
Karamti
Konandikro
laceriform
leap the pale
Lloyd's mirror
lobe swing
low right
mini-relational data base
MOLSO
nonconspecific
nonopioid
nonrotavirus
obscurify
orthophotographs
papillae of tongue
parmacopoeia
parvifolia
plastinates
play agent
plcc
polarization of electric wave
pole bracket cantilever
POP - Post Office Protocol
provok't
pulling whaleboat
put pen to paper
reference radiometer
rock tank
rosette plate
Ryder
safe shutdown system
San Yanaro
satellite altimetry
saucer-shapeds
schuchardtite
Sen'kove
shock test machine
simplified coefficient of friction
sing away
single stage compressor
Smoky R.
sonar blind zone
sorting routine generator
special customer-oriented language
spherical inclusion body
steam-trap
storager part
sub-zero
tamerlane
TDV
television receiver
thwack
Toromskaya Guba
touchy-feeliness
trioxids
trust liability
Truyère
Tymovskiy Rayon
unfactual
unyieldingly
Utonians
X-network