纪录片《非洲》 第58期:好望角（16）

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The whole village comes to help the hatchlings.

全村的人都会帮助这些刚孵化的小家伙们

But the most important effort

但最重要的工作

is to protect the adults

是保护成年海龟

from outsiders who would hunt them for their meat.

不被外人猎杀取肉

They've taken it upon themselves

他们主动承担了

to really police the beaches around here

保护沙滩的责任

and make sure that poaching is kept to a minimum¹.

将非法偷猎行为减少到最低程度

The selfless protection these people provide means

那些人提供的无私保护

that this is one of the few places in the world

使得这里的海龟数量成为

where turtle numbers are actually increasing.

全世界少有的出现增长的地区之一

And remarkably², here in Itsamia,

最了不起的是 在伊兹米亚

the population has in fact doubled in the last decade.

海龟数量在过去的十年中甚至翻了一番

As the shoot was coming to the end,

在我们拍摄即将结束的时候

cameraman Kevin Flay³ noticed that

摄影师凯文·弗莱注意到

some of the turtles that made it through the surf

有些成功进入海洋的小海龟

faced one last danger.

可能面临最后一道危险

I'm getting shots of a kite which is flying down

我拍到一只鸢飞下来

and taking turtles off the water surface.

然后从海面上把小海龟叼走了

That was a part of the story we had to tell.

那部分故事我们不得不拍

1 minimum   

adj.最低的，最小的；n.最小量，最低限度

参考例句：

• What is the minimum price?最低价是多少？
• Today's minimum temperature is 10℃.今天的最低气温是10℃。

2 remarkably   

ad.不同寻常地，相当地

参考例句：

• I thought she was remarkably restrained in the circumstances. 我认为她在那种情况下非常克制。
• He made a remarkably swift recovery. 他康复得相当快。

3 flay   

vt.剥皮；痛骂

参考例句：

• You cannot flay the same ox twice.一头牛不能剥两次皮。
• He was going to flay that stranger with every trick known to the law.他要用法律上所有的招数来痛斥那个陌生人。