2006年NPR美国国家公共电台十一月-Listening to Winged Wildlife in the Arct

News, news, the heck with news, let's go outdoors, Alaska, which really is the great outdoors, but getting cold these days, the birds migrating to the lower 48, and that's why producer Martyn Stewart went in June, he was going to record birds. He set out four microphones over a 500-yard area in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge back in June and this is what he got.

Just recording¹ up is a joy, you know, it's just fantastic. 24 hours of light and you've got these fantastic sounds. At any given time, you've got birds' sound all around you. I was in a tent, in a yellow tent, I felt like I was sleeping in an embryo², I was inside an egg.

It seemed to be that when the sun went further north, it never actually set behind any of the mountains, it was still in the sky. So it was circling all the time, 24 hours a day. But from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock in the morning, I found it was the most dense³ part of the day for the sound.

(The) plane lands, drops you off, leaves you with all the equipment and then, off they go. And then you quickly realize that where you are, the chances of seeing anybody, you know, it's so remote. Probably on the second day I walked out with all my equipment across the tundra⁴. The tundra is very difficult to walk on, you know, you walk in with these boots and you've got these tufts of grass and stuff in you, you really do find difficult footing. em, so I'd walk a mile away from my base camp, and drop my microphones and the recorders and the rest of it, and then, over the horizon comes Mr. Grizzly⁵ Bear, and I realize that I can't stay there to record so I've got to walk back another difficult mile, err⁶, so that Mr. Bear can get out of the way. You know, you just get out of the way because you're basically standing⁷ in his dinner plate.

It kinda takes you back to your primal⁸ self in a way, you can hear your, your heart beating, you can feel your pulse running through, you can basically feel your blood going up and down your arms. Em, it's an incredible feeling. I've never felt like that in any other country I've been into. It's like being in a dream, and, but there's nobody there to wake you up. And so this dream just carries on and on and on, until you decide that you've had enough and you go away.

Martyn Stewart, contributes to the new book, Arctic Wings, it features a CD of his recordings⁹ and thanks to Jeff Rice of Hearing Voices, the Hearing Voices' radio collector.

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tundra
苔原, 冻土地带
tuft
一丛, 丛生植物, 一蔟
grizzly bear
大灰熊
primal
最初的

1 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

2 embryo   

n.胚胎，萌芽的事物

参考例句：

• They are engaging in an embryo research.他们正在进行一项胚胎研究。
• The project was barely in embryo.该计划只是个雏形。

3 dense   

a.密集的，稠密的，浓密的；密度大的

参考例句：

• The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里。
• The path was completely covered by the dense foliage. 小路被树叶厚厚地盖了一层。

4 tundra   

n.苔原，冻土地带

参考例句：

• The arctic tundra is at the top of the world around the North Pole.北极冻原是指北极点周边的地区，是世界最高的地方。
• There is a large amount of methane gas under the Siberian tundra.西伯利亚的冻土地带之下有大量的甲烷气体。

5 grizzly   

adj.略为灰色的，呈灰色的；n.灰色大熊

参考例句：

• This grizzly liked people.这只灰熊却喜欢人。
• Grizzly bears are not generally social creatures.一般说来，灰熊不是社交型动物。

6 err   

vi.犯错误，出差错

参考例句：

• He did not err by a hair's breadth in his calculation.他的计算结果一丝不差。
• The arrows err not from their aim.箭无虚发。

7 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

8 primal   

adj.原始的；最重要的

参考例句：

• Jealousy is a primal emotion.嫉妒是最原始的情感。
• Money was a primal necessity to them.对于他们，钱是主要的需要。

9 recordings   

n.记录( recording的名词复数 )；录音；录像；唱片

参考例句：

• a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
• old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐