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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
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The fish are scooped1 up from the water, a tonne or two at a time. Every last fish from this school of 7,000 yellow fin2 and skip jack3 tuna is plucked from the water. With fishing techniques now so efficient, and with ever more vessels5 plying6 the Pacific, there is real concern among biologists that even the resilient skip jack may begin to decline. This vessel4 is not one of the newcomers. It's a Papua New Guinea-flagged ship, fishing in their territorial7 waters. So it's subject to catch limits and regulations that are amongst the strictest in the Pacific, designed to ensure that tuna fishing remains8 sustainable. But New Guinea's fishermen are concerned about the increasing numbers of foreign vessels now fishing for Pacific tuna. They were the first nation to propose that the high seas pockets beyond their national waters be declared marine9 reserves, as now advocated by Greenpeace.
1 scooped | |
v.抢先报道( scoop的过去式和过去分词 );(敏捷地)抱起;抢先获得;用铲[勺]等挖(洞等) | |
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2 fin | |
n.鳍;(飞机的)安定翼 | |
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3 jack | |
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克 | |
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4 vessel | |
n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管 | |
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n.血管( vessel的名词复数 );船;容器;(具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的)人 | |
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6 plying | |
v.使用(工具)( ply的现在分词 );经常供应(食物、饮料);固定往来;经营生意 | |
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7 territorial | |
adj.领土的,领地的 | |
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8 remains | |
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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9 marine | |
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵 | |
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