夏说英语新闻晨读 第325期:世界上最丑的猪

 本期内容：
Scientists have captured the first footage in the wild of one of the world's rarest - and ugliest - pigs. The Javan warty¹ pig is under such threat from hunting and habitat loss that conservationists surveying its habitat believed it might already have been driven to extinction². Camera traps have now revealed that small populations survive in Java's increasingly fragmented forests.

capture：捕捉到
footage：镜头
rare：稀有的
warty pig：疣猪
habitat：栖息地
conservationist：自然环境保护主义者
extinction：灭绝
fragmented：碎片的

1 warty   

adj.有疣的，似疣的；瘤状

参考例句：

• Warty recurrences occurred in the perineal wound within a month of surgery. 局部切除术后一个月内伤口疣体复发。 来自互联网
• African wild swine with warty protuberances on the face and large protruding tusks. 在脸部和突出的长牙上有疣样隆起的非洲野猪。 来自互联网

2 extinction   

n.熄灭，消亡，消灭，灭绝，绝种

参考例句：

• The plant is now in danger of extinction.这种植物现在有绝种的危险。
• The island's way of life is doomed to extinction.这个岛上的生活方式注定要消失。