万花筒 2011-01-12&01-13 2011动物成批死亡之谜？！-英语课

时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：万花筒2011年

英语课

The mystery of the dying birds. There has been another incident of mass deaths.

This time in Italy. Is this now a global phenomenon or are we just paying more attention to nature work? Here is Matt Guttman.

They’re calling this the Aflockalypse. Turtle Doves falling from the sky, Faenza, Italy

littering roads and

hanging lifeless in trees, it looked like a scene from the Hitchcock The birds.

It looked similar to the mass bird kill in Louisiana this week

which looked like Beebe, Arkansas. 3,000 dead birds there, leaving locals confused.

"Beebe police department,This is Mary. Yes, ma’am I was wondering why all the birds, are just

like, dying? We’re trying to find that out.

Mass deaths recorded this week from all across the world from Arkansas to New Zealand, each incident shocking on its own. 100 tons of dead fish in Brazil, 40,000 crabs 1 in Britain and just yesterday, this in Folly 2

Beach South Carolina.

"Smelled like bad sea food. "

So what is going on?

These kinds of incidents of animal

die-offs take place every

single day. In fact, 163 incidents are

reported to the federal government every year.

So, if these animal deaths are not unusual, what causes them?

Conspiracy 3 theorists would say UFOs, solar flares 4

or secret air force tests. Medical

professionals offer more mundane 5

answers.

"That was New Year’s Eve; it could have been fireworks that frightened the birds."

But there is maybe an invisible hand in all of this, our hand, or more connected, wired, viral

than that any time in history.

"Things that were below radar 6 are now above the radar. Everyone’s amazed by something that

happens every day."

For Good Morning America, Matt Guttmann, abc News, Miami.

1 crabs

n.蟹( crab的名词复数 )；阴虱寄生病；蟹肉v.捕蟹( crab的第三人称单数 )

As we walked along the seashore we saw lots of tiny crabs. 我们在海岸上散步时看到很多小蟹。来自《简明英汉词典》
The fish and crabs scavenge for decaying tissue. 鱼和蟹搜寻腐烂的组织为食。来自《简明英汉词典》

2 folly

n.愚笨，愚蠢，蠢事，蠢行，傻话

Learn wisdom by the folly of others.从别人的愚蠢行动中学到智慧。
Events proved the folly of such calculations.事情的进展证明了这种估计是愚蠢的。

3 conspiracy

n.阴谋，密谋，共谋

The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。

4 flares

n.喇叭裤v.（使）闪耀( flare的第三人称单数 )；（使）（船舷）外倾；（使）鼻孔张大；（使）（衣裙、酒杯等）呈喇叭形展开

万花筒 2011-01-12&amp;01-13 2011动物成批死亡之谜？！

万花筒 2011-01-12&01-13 2011动物成批死亡之谜？！