[英伦广角] 2015-10-24 英国最后的驯狮人 马戏团面临关闭

 Inside the lion cage, Thomas Cho*fields of Wales has gone smoothly¹, but step outside it's been fierce.-I think it's pooling. They were wild animals there. -It's outdated², outmoded. It's a rubbish form of entertainment.

-Wild animal being made to do tricks, to me, it's abuse. -A*, quick! A*, good boy, over!

The C*field family have been taming lions for generations, but after a summer of protests, petitions and political intervention³, they've got a fight on their hands than never before.

-Good boy, on your place.

People let their motions get better of them. With these arguments, it's very easy to appeal someone's need to be angry, and you can win a lot of people over like that. -Have a kiss, Kiss.

This is one of the only three remaining wild animal circuses left in the country, and only one with big cats. Various pools point anywhere between 60 and 95 percent of the public wanting a ban, but it's been in the pipeline⁴ for years. -The last government said it would ban it. This government said it's committed to a ban, but if you ask them what's going on, now given the same answer they've been giving, for more than a year, which it will happen when the parliamentary tie allows, but it seems, under increasing pressure here in Wales, the assembly might be acting⁵ alone.

-There's been new issue in Netherlands. Many countries, 17 now all together, actually banned the uesd wild animals and circuses, so looking at that new research, what that could tell us in terms of how we can move forward with legislation here in Wales?

The last major report in the UK found little evidence that well-fed animals kept in travelling circuses is any better or worse than those in zoos. This show with clearly to Wales, but deny permission to perform in England for the first time this year because of the size of the cats' sleeping area. They didn't refuse us. They just said that we have to...

-It was a reject though, wasn't it? That's a refusal, isn't it?

-No, it wasn't a reject of it. They gave us recommendations in order to move forward to obtain the licence. But the time for the application ran out. They said we had to start the process again, because there's a time limit issue on it. The team hoped to build a new enclosure by crowd funding. They say they're getting a lot of support from paying customers.

-I thought it was a wonderful show, magnificent tr* both lions and tigers.

-There are pools that say, you know, that 90 percent of people in this country don't want wild animals used in circuses. Do you think the pools are wrong? Do you think people do want this?

-Yeah, that's why those come today. The tore of Wales is almost over, and the future of the circus has never been more uncertain, but despite all of this, Mr. C*field is determined⁶ to continue. -The day that the demand dries up for this type of work will be the day we would have to stop, but that hasn't come yet. The only thing that's really going to stop me doing from what I'm doing in the minute is me falling dead. But with so much st* against him, Mr. C*field could well live up to his nickname as the Britain's last lion tamer. Joe Tiddy, Sky News, in T*.

1 smoothly   

adv.平滑地，顺利地，流利地，流畅地

参考例句：

• The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作，所以工作进展顺利。
• Just change one or two words and the sentence will read smoothly.这句话只要动一两个字就顺了。

2 outdated   

adj.旧式的，落伍的，过时的；v.使过时

参考例句：

• That list of addresses is outdated,many have changed.那个通讯录已经没用了，许多地址已经改了。
• Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.我们许多人都遵循祖先立下的过时习俗。

3 intervention   

n.介入，干涉，干预

参考例句：

• The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
• Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。

4 pipeline   

n.管道，管线

参考例句：

• The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
• A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。

5 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

6 determined   

adj.坚定的；有决心的

参考例句：

• I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
• He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。