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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a gob
aan
adhesion plaque
aortitides
argon system
aristocratisms
bandwidth hog
bioproduct
bipolymers
book scorpion
branches of mathematics
burstone
candlelit
centchroman
channel queue
Citrus wilsnii Tanaka
classification of stations
codrons
collating sorting
coremia
cuny
deficit electrons
degenerative diseases
draught beer
Ellesmere Port and Neston
Eriocaulon acutibracteatum
error expected
esencial
family Callitrichaceae
Fanglun 1414
fetishism for hand
furrowers
gain the advantage of
Geloniinae
geniculate neuron
heat disease
helene
in aggregates
inner-tube extension
iridium dioxide
Kaindu
Kathryn Elizabeth Smith
KL Nebula
kulturs
lake eutrophication
laser focal shift monitor
linear hard core pinch device
Livani
lobelia blue
memory lock write
metalorganic
meter-out system
midian
moon phase yoke tube
moskito
Mountain Park
Multan
Nemo, Vulkan
next-available block register
nickel-molybdenum steel
non-reflectives
nosocomial gangrene
nuchthemerinal
opinion paragraph in auditor's report
orthiocoryphus
Panclar
patrocliny
peau de soie
pentagynous
pentaphene
peronospora parasitica
perpolic
postfeudal
raffle leaf
Ranchito
relative GPS
restaurant chain
RF preselector
safe navigational procedure
saj
schiavelli
scoliodonic acid
Sirius
sodium gold thiosulfate
squill vinegar
stoneborer
teeth decalcification
text analysis program
Tidjane
travelling-wave photomultiplier
trfle
under-dose
underextend
UNSF
user perspective
v. sublingualis
venus and adonis
verdigrised
void item
Zariski ring
zero voltage relay