纪录片《非洲》 第11期:喀拉哈里沙漠（11）

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For four years, the Africa team searched the continent

4年以来 《非洲》摄制组寻遍非洲大陆

for new and surprising stories.

只为找到新鲜奇特的故事

Not only of strange and unfamiliar¹ creatures,

不仅是那些未知的陌生生物

but also of some we think we know.

也包括那些我们自以为很了解的生物

Veteran wildlife cameraman Martyn Colbeck took on the challenge

资深野生动物摄影师马丁·科伯克接受挑战

of shedding new light

意图以全新视角

on the life of Namibia's desert giraffe.

展现纳米比亚沙漠长颈鹿的生活

I jumped at the opportunity

我迫不及待地抓住此次机会

of working with an animal that I hadn't really spent much time with.

去和平时很少能接触的动物共同工作

Straight away, they proved to be quite an eye-opener.

很快 他们的表现就令人大开眼界

They're very bizarre looking animals.

他们是长相十分古怪的动物

We just kept looking at them from different angles

我们从不同角度不停注视他们

and they looked even weirder³.

他们看起来就更古怪了

The combination of the sort of weird² close-ups,

他们奇怪样貌的大特写

the beautiful landscape that they're in.

和优美的风景组合到一起

They're amusing.

非常有趣

I got really attached to them, actually.

事实上我被他们深深迷住了

Overlying all this, we were always waiting for a fight.

但我们最期待的 却是拍到他们打斗的场景

But to see a full-blooded fight is very rare.

但头破血流的打斗却很少见

So, the only way that we were going to see it

所以我们能见识到的唯一方法

is if we stuck at it, day after day, every day for 30 days.

就是坚持不懈 总共坚持了30天

1 unfamiliar   

adj.陌生的，不熟悉的

参考例句：

• I am unfamiliar with the place and the people here.我在这儿人地生疏。
• The man seemed unfamiliar to me.这人很面生。

2 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

3 weirder   

怪诞的( weird的比较级 )； 神秘而可怕的； 超然的； 古怪的

参考例句：

• Actually, things got a little weirder when the tow truck driver showed up. 事实上，在拖吊车司机出现后，事情的发展更加怪异。