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Abused Animals Find Refuge In A New Sanctuary¹ In Jordan

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Now we head to the Middle East. Several animals will be discovering the great outdoors for the first time in a forest, including lions moved from out of a zoo in Gaza. The sanctuary is a new wild animal preserve that has opened its doors to rescued wildlife in one of the Middle East's biggest animal trafficking routes. NPR's Jane Arraf meets some of the animals and their keepers.

SARRA GHAZI: Balou.

JANE ARRAF, BYLINE³: Jordanian Sarra Ghazi is crawling to a bear, a Syrian brown bear. He's 600 pounds with long claws and sharp teeth. But he grew up cowering⁴ at the sight of people.

GHAZI: To get him out of his night room, they would beat him. And if, you know, he was so hurt that he would come out, and then they'd lock him into the exhibit area, which was a completely bear area. And then he would be faced with all these - the screaming crowds poking⁵ and prodding⁶ and throwing things at him.

ARRAF: That was at a private zoo in Jordan. Then he was brought to a wildlife preserve near Amman. For months after he was rescued, Ghazi spent every evening sitting next to his enclosure with fruit and honey until he wasn't afraid anymore. The foundation Ghazi works for opened a new, much larger preserve in October in the north of Jordan. The bear now has space to roam, plus a wading⁷ pool, trees and a rock cave.

GHAZI: Balou bear...

ARRAF: There he is. He's coming out of his cave.

GHAZI: Yes, sweet boy. Balou.

What he's done is he's dug out the back, so who knows? He may actually choose to hibernate⁸, and that would be amazing because he's again one of the animals that has been in captivity⁹ his whole life. If we ever got to the point where he would hibernate, it would be a huge success for him.

ARRAF: The government of Abu Dhabi and the international group Four Paws provided most of the $5 million to build al-Maw'a, the sanctuary. It's run by the Jordanian Princess Alia Foundation. Ghazi is the CEO.

The preserve includes an eco-lodge and a visitor's program to raise awareness¹⁰ about animal trafficking. Some of the animals have been confiscated¹¹ by wildlife rangers¹² as they were smuggled¹³ from Iraq in Syria on their way to Gulf¹⁴ countries, where a lot of them end up as high-status pets.

(LION ROARING)

ARRAF: Others have been rescued from zoos that couldn't care for them, including Sabrine and Sultan, two lions from a now closed zoo in the Gaza Strip.

GHAZI: Sabrine, Sabrine, what are you looking at?

ARRAF: They were so traumatized by the war there, Ghazi says that when a car backfired on a nearby road after they first arrived, the two huge lions hit the ground.

GHAZI: Where's Sultan? Hey, where's Sultan?

The first thought was if that is happening, if that's the impact of such a terrible war on a lion, what are the people and those children there suffering?

ARRAF: Over at the foundation's original center near Amman, there are 12 other lions, along with wolves, hyenas¹⁵, monkeys and baboons¹⁷.

GHAZI: Hello, you. Hello.

ARRAF: Keepers limit contact with the animals to allow them to revert¹⁸ to more natural behavior. But some, like this baboon¹⁶, have spent their whole lives with humans.

GHAZI: It's all right, it's all right. Not my beads¹⁹.

ARRAF: He was holding your hand.

GHAZI: Yes, he does.

ARRAF: There's a - there's a fuzzy cover on this microphone. And it's almost like fur, so he's reached out through the cage and he's grooming²⁰ it.

GHAZI: We have to go. It's OK. Yes? No, don't be cross.

ARRAF: Ghazi says a recent success was a pelican²¹ from Gaza that had spent its entire life in a cage. They nursed it back to health. When migrating pelicans²² came through recently, they took the once captive pelican with them. Jane Arraf, NPR News near Amman, Jordan.

1 sanctuary   

n.圣所，圣堂，寺庙；禁猎区，保护区

参考例句：

• There was a sanctuary of political refugees behind the hospital.医院后面有一个政治难民的避难所。
• Most countries refuse to give sanctuary to people who hijack aeroplanes.大多数国家拒绝对劫机者提供庇护。

2 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 cowering   

v.畏缩，抖缩( cower的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He turned his baleful glare on the cowering suspect. 他恶毒地盯着那个蜷缩成一团的嫌疑犯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He stood over the cowering Herb with fists of fury. 他紧握着两个拳头怒气冲天地站在惊魂未定的赫伯面前。 来自辞典例句

5 poking   

n. 刺，戳，袋 vt. 拨开，刺，戳 vi. 戳，刺，捅，搜索，伸出，行动散慢

参考例句：

• He was poking at the rubbish with his stick. 他正用手杖拨动垃圾。
• He spent his weekends poking around dusty old bookshops. 他周末都泡在布满尘埃的旧书店里。

6 prodding   

v.刺，戳( prod的现在分词 )；刺激；促使；（用手指或尖物）戳

参考例句：

• He needed no prodding. 他不用督促。
• The boy is prodding the animal with a needle. 那男孩正用一根针刺那动物。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

7 wading   

（从水、泥等）蹚，走过，跋( wade的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The man tucked up his trousers for wading. 那人卷起裤子，准备涉水。
• The children were wading in the sea. 孩子们在海水中走着。

8 hibernate   

v.冬眠，蛰伏

参考例句：

• Bears often hibernate in caves.熊常在山洞里冬眠。
• Some warm-blooded animals do not need to hibernate.一些温血动物不需要冬眠。

9 captivity   

n.囚禁；被俘；束缚

参考例句：

• A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
• He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。

10 awareness   

n.意识，觉悟，懂事，明智

参考例句：

• There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
• Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。

11 confiscated   

没收，充公( confiscate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Their land was confiscated after the war. 他们的土地在战后被没收。
• The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。

12 rangers   

护林者( ranger的名词复数 )； 突击队员

参考例句：

• Do you know where the Rangers Stadium is? 你知道Rangers体育场在哪吗？ 来自超越目标英语 第3册
• Now I'm a Rangers' fan, so I like to be near the stadium. 现在我是Rangers的爱好者，所以我想离体育场近一点。 来自超越目标英语 第3册

13 smuggled   

水货

参考例句：

• The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Those smuggled goods have been detained by the port office. 那些走私货物被港务局扣押了。 来自互联网

14 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

15 hyenas   

n.鬣狗( hyena的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• These animals were the prey of hyenas. 这些动物是鬣狗的猎物。 来自辞典例句
• We detest with horror the duplicity and villainy of the murderous hyenas of Bukharinite wreckers. 我们非常憎恨布哈林那帮两面三刀、杀人破坏，干尽坏事的豺狼。 来自辞典例句

16 baboon   

n.狒狒

参考例句：

• A baboon is a large monkey that lives in Africa.狒狒是一种生活在非洲的大猴子。
• As long as the baboon holds on to what it wants,it's trapped.只要狒狒紧抓住想要的东西不放手，它就会被牢牢困住。

17 baboons   

n.狒狒( baboon的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Baboons could break branches and leaders. 狒狒会折断侧枝和顶梢。 来自辞典例句
• And as nonprimates, they provoke fewer ethical and safety-related concerns than chimps or baboons. 而且作为非灵长类，就不会产生像用黑猩猩或狒狒那样的伦理和安全方面的顾虑。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命

18 revert   

v.恢复，复归，回到

参考例句：

• Let us revert to the earlier part of the chapter.让我们回到本章的前面部分。
• Shall we revert to the matter we talked about yesterday?我们接着昨天谈过的问题谈，好吗？

19 beads   

n.（空心）小珠子( bead的名词复数 )；水珠；珠子项链

参考例句：

• a necklace of wooden beads 一条木珠项链
• Beads of perspiration stood out on his forehead. 他的前额上挂着汗珠。

20 grooming   

n. 修饰, 美容，（动物）梳理毛发

参考例句：

• You should always pay attention to personal grooming. 你应随时注意个人仪容。
• We watched two apes grooming each other. 我们看两只猩猩在互相理毛。

21 pelican   

n.鹈鹕，伽蓝鸟

参考例句：

• The pelican has a very useful beak.鹈鹕有一张非常有用的嘴。
• This pelican is expected to fully recover.这只鹈鹕不久就能痊愈。

22 pelicans   

n.鹈鹕( pelican的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Kurt watched the Pelicans fire their jets and scorch the grass. 库尔特看着鹈鹕运兵船点火，它们的喷焰把草烧焦。 来自互联网
• The Pelican Feeding Officers present an educational talk while feeding the pelicans. 那个正在喂鹈鹕的工作人员会边喂鹈鹕边给它上一节教育课。 来自互联网