时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2012年


英语课

 I’m in the baking heat of the Kimberley in north Australia. Out here, over 3,000 people each year get bitten by snakes. I’m gonna show you what to do if you come face-to-face with one. It’s an olive python. Let’s just get him out here. There you come. We’ll just leave his head on the ground. They are always calmest when they got their head on the ground like that. This is a pretty common snake in Australia. And here we go. We’ll just get his head. He’ll probably live off like rodents 1, skinks, even other, actually other small snakes. And one thing there’s no shortage of in Australia are snakes. In fact, I think it’s something like 21 of the 25 most poisonous snakes in the world are actually in Australia. The Aborigines have always lived in harmony with the land, only taking what nature can maintain. And today, they are the only people in Australia allowed to kill indigenous 2 species. They would carry their live prey 3 until they needed to eat it. As I’m not a native Australian, I’m gonna let this snake go. As it’s so humid, I don’t need a shelter tonight. I’ll just sleep under the stars. 


 
It’s kind of hard to sleep at the moment just because I’m still just pouring in sweat. It’s so humid. But it has just given me time just to sit and look around and listen. I can hear the river flowing. There’s a distant thunderstorm. So I can hear the odd crack of lightning occasionally. And it just gives me that time just to go actually, wow, this is special. And it’s just for me a real privilege to be in somewhere so wild but also so unique. And that for me keeps my spirits going.

1 rodents
n.啮齿目动物( rodent的名词复数 )
  • Rodents carry diseases and are generally regarded as pests. 啮齿目动物传播疾病,常被当作害虫对待。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Some wild rodents in Africa also harbor the virus. 在非洲,有些野生啮齿动物也是储毒者。 来自辞典例句
2 indigenous
adj.土产的,土生土长的,本地的
  • Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
  • Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。
3 prey
n.被掠食者,牺牲者,掠食;v.捕食,掠夺,折磨
  • Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
  • The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。
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aberrant ductules
Abrera
absorption ability of nutrient
acoustooptic Q-switching
affinition
albicillas
Albrecht Durer
allelic inactivation
anovulomenorrhea
aorangi ra. (haurangi mts.)
automatic speed limiting brake
bag goods
battery-less
Bayliss distribution
be in for the high jump
black print
Bondarenko self-shielding factor
bubbleheaded
burst detector
caretaker status
Celenza Valfortore
coinvention
congo snake
cross current solvent extraction
cruralium
damage insurance
dautie
deadstick landing
deep depression
diapered type brick paver
downgrade against engine
e.o.s.
each and every
equivalent categories
ethnocentrisms
fireman
fruit scale
fueling gear
full eccentric drive shaft
graining box
gully control planting
Hall effect device
Havasupai
have a reputation for
High Energy Astronomy Observatory
hollowing file
Hut'iba
hydrangiography
i do so
inspection of arms
Jim Prescott
legal restrictions
li hing mui
logko
love ya
m. transversus abdominis
manufacturing pig
MDOPA
merriweather
miniature real-time operating system
minors' lung
natural hydrate vehicle
Omdangwa
open ended contract
Osterwieck
overissuance
piece rate
polytene
postkinematic stage
private incomes
pull speed
Raggastani
Rauvolfia cubana
Reddies
rediallers
Rhoon
run time organization
Saturnioidea
semivertagus zebrus
Shikotan
showhow
single target data read-out
sire-land
Skawa
snecke
sphere of gravity
stereocaulon alishanum
stope pillar
superimposed record
tailstock clamp-bolt
tall-growing
Tam Hoa
tasuldine
temporal frequency spectrum
theopathies
thermal insulation door
turbohearth
ultrared drying
undefaulting
verbascose
vizored