英国新闻听力 在美国狩猎

现在，科学技术已经大大改善了我们生活的很多方面，就连狩猎也不例外：激光测距仪、跟踪定位仪和运动感应器不过是美国猎人的诸多高科技装备中的一小部分而已。

注释：

forsake¹ v. 放弃，抛弃

spear n. 矛，枪

monitor vt. 监控

marksmanship n. 枪法，射击术

Hunting in AmericaHunting in America

Now technology has improved many parts of our lives and hunting is no exception: laser range finders, GPS tracking and motion detectors² are just a few of the high tech devices American hunters are carrying these days to help bag the biggest game. But not all hunters believe using these hi tech aids is fair. Some national hunting organisations are limiting their use and a small but growing fringe of hunters is forsaking³ fire-arms altogether in favour of bows and arrows, spears and atlatls. The latter is an ancient hand weapon that Aztec hunters also used to hurl⁴ darts⁵. Mark Thorpe is the executive editor of Petersons Hunting Magazine and he told Culture Shock's Denis Nichy about the changing views in the hunting community and the growing popularity of bow hunting.

The Boon⁶ and Crocket Club is one of the main organisations that monitor the game populations in this country. They are now changing the rules to prohibit the use of certain technologies to make hunters rely more on what they used to rely on in the past which would be skill and woods craft. A lot of that has gone by the wayside in favour of technology and so they want to kind of turn the clocks back and that's part of an interest that hunters have in a primitive⁷ approach and focussing on a craft of hunting and kind of seeing how difficult it is. And I think that is part of perhaps where bow hunting comes in.

People who like to bow hunt are more interested in getting closer to the animal and the techniques involved in the hunt as opposed to shooting an animal from 300 yards away when it doesn't even know you are there. In this case, it's challenging yourself; it's learning about the environment, it's learning about the animal's habitat, it's learning about the animal. And so bow hunting is kind of the modern extension of things like atlatl hunting in which you have hunters out there who are now relying more on skill than they are on marksmanship.

在美国狩猎

现在，科学技术已经大大改善了我们生活的很多方面，就连狩猎也不例外：激光测距仪、跟踪定位仪和运动感应器不过是美国猎人的诸多高科技装备中的一小部分而已。这些高科技装备能帮助他们捕获最大个的猎物。但是并不是所有的猎人都认为使用这些高科技设备是正当的。一些国家狩猎组织正努力限制这些高科技设备的使用，一小部分猎人正彻底放弃轻武器、弹药，转而青睐弓、箭、矛和梭标投射器这类工具。这样的猎人虽然为数不多，但却有日益增多的趋势。后者是古代人徒手操作的武器，阿兹特克猎人也曾用它来投掷飞镖。马克·索普是《彼得森狩猎杂志》的执行总编，他和"文化冲击"摄制组的丹尼斯·内奇讨论了狩猎社区和用弓箭狩猎日趋流行的问题。

The Boon and Crocket俱乐部是美国主要的一家关注猎人的组织。他们正在修订规则，禁止使用某些高科技装备，以使猎人更多依赖他们过去所依赖的技能和木制工具。这些技能和工具很多已经过时，因为高科技设备的出现而被废弃。所以，这个组织想扭转这个时代潮流。使用过去的工具和技能也是猎人采用原始狩猎方式的部分乐趣所在--专注于狩猎技巧并仔细考虑狩猎的困难程度。我想这可能正是弓箭狩猎兴起的原因部分原因所在吧。

喜欢用弓箭狩猎的人更喜欢尽可能近地靠近猎物，相反，在狩猎中使用高科技装备则可以使你在离猎物300英尺远的地方将其射中，而猎物甚至还完全意识不到你的存在。在用弓箭狩猎的情况下，你需要挑战自我，熟悉环境，了解动物的栖息地，深谙动物的习性。所以，弓箭狩猎是梭标投射器狩猎的现代方式。在这种方式中，猎人在户外更多的依靠技巧而非枪法。

1 forsake   

vt.遗弃，抛弃；舍弃，放弃

参考例句：

• She pleaded with her husband not to forsake her.她恳求丈夫不要抛弃她。
• You must forsake your bad habits.你必须革除你的坏习惯。

2 detectors   

探测器( detector的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The report advocated that all buildings be fitted with smoke detectors. 报告主张所有的建筑物都应安装烟火探测器。
• This is heady wine for experimenters using these neutrino detectors. 对于使用中微子探测器的实验工作者，这是令人兴奋的美酒。 来自英汉非文学 - 科技

3 forsaking   

放弃( forsake的现在分词 )； 弃绝； 抛弃； 摒弃

参考例句：

• I will not be cowed into forsaking my beliefs. 我不会因为被恐吓而放弃自己的信仰。
• At fourteen he ran away, forsaking his home and friends. 他十四岁出走，离开了家乡和朋友。

4 hurl   

vt.猛投，力掷，声叫骂

参考例句：

• The best cure for unhappiness is to hurl yourself into your work.医治愁苦的最好办法就是全身心地投入工作。
• To hurl abuse is no way to fight.谩骂决不是战斗。

5 darts   

n.掷飞镖游戏；飞镖( dart的名词复数 )；急驰，飞奔v.投掷，投射( dart的第三人称单数 )；向前冲，飞奔

参考例句：

• His darts trophy takes pride of place on the mantelpiece. 他将掷镖奖杯放在壁炉顶上最显著的地方。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I never saw so many darts in a bodice! 我从没见过紧身胸衣上纳了这么多的缝褶！ 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 boon   

n.恩赐，恩物，恩惠

参考例句：

• A car is a real boon when you live in the country.在郊外居住，有辆汽车确实极为方便。
• These machines have proved a real boon to disabled people.事实证明这些机器让残疾人受益匪浅。

7 primitive   

adj.原始的；简单的；n.原(始)人，原始事物

参考例句：

• It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.逃离危险的地方是一种原始本能。
• His book describes the march of the civilization of a primitive society.他的著作描述了一个原始社会的开化过程。