英语听力：2012-01-20 从南极到北极 From Pole To Pole—2
时间：2018-12-27 作者：英语课 分类：探索与发现2012年
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The penguins 1 stay when all other creatures have fled because each guards a treasure—a single egg rested on the top of its feet and kept warm beneath the downy bulge 2 of its stomach.
There is no food and no water for them. And they will not see the sun again for four months. Surely, no greater ordeal 3 is faced by any animal.
As the sun departs from the Antarctic, it lightens the skies in the far north. It’s March and light returns to the high Arctic, sweeping 4 away four months’ of darkness.
A polar bear stirs. She has been in her den 5 the whole winter. Her emergence 6 marks the beginning of spring. After months of confinement 7 underground, she toboggans down the slope, perhaps to clean her fur, perhaps for sheer joy.
Her cubs 8 gaze out of their bright new world for the very first time. The female calls them , but this steep slope is not the easiest place to take your first steps.
1 penguins
n.企鹅( penguin的名词复数 )
- Why can penguins live in cold environment? 为什么企鹅能生活在寒冷的环境中？ 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Whales, seals, penguins, and turtles have flippers. 鲸、海豹，企鹅和海龟均有鳍形肢。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
2 bulge
n.突出，膨胀，激增；vt.突出，膨胀
- The apple made a bulge in his pocket.苹果把他口袋塞得鼓了起来。
- What's that awkward bulge in your pocket?你口袋里那块鼓鼓囊囊的东西是什么？
3 ordeal
n.苦难经历，（尤指对品格、耐力的）严峻考验
- She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。
- Being lost in the wilderness for a week was an ordeal for me.在荒野里迷路一星期对我来说真是一场磨难。
4 sweeping
adj.范围广大的，一扫无遗的
- The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
- Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗？
5 den
n.兽穴；秘密地方；安静的小房间，私室
- There is a big fox den on the back hill.后山有一个很大的狐狸窝。
- The only way to catch tiger cubs is to go into tiger's den.不入虎穴焉得虎子。
6 emergence
n.浮现，显现，出现，（植物）突出体
- The last decade saw the emergence of a dynamic economy.最近10年见证了经济增长的姿态。
- Language emerges and develops with the emergence and development of society.语言是随着社会的产生而产生，随着社会的发展而发展的。
7 confinement
n.幽禁，拘留，监禁；分娩；限制，局限
- He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.他度过了11年的单独监禁。
- The date for my wife's confinement was approaching closer and closer.妻子分娩的日子越来越近了。