英语听力：2013-11-27 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—3

 -So you had a tough year.-We have got that, yeah. It's been an incredibly bad winter, and that's companed with probably the worst summer we ever have had as well, last year.

-So these boxes should be out, full of bees working.

-Yeah, they have been brought back from the fields, because the bees didn't survive the winter, which went right onto me.

-It's been devastating¹.

-It was very depressing, yeah. We reckon we lost 3 or 400 hives just this last winter, and we had 5 bad years in the room, so Headhills should have 1,300 hives in operation at this time of year, and we've got less than half about it. And that's preety common throughout not just Scotland, but whole of the UK. I mean I heard stories of someone losing 96 percent.

-Right. One last bee there. It may just survive the year. So very difficult position for you, what are you going to do to survive?

-Come, have a look. Here we have some important bees, just arrived this morning all the way from Italy. It could be on the road for 2 or 3 days, I would say.

Seeing this really bring home to me the problem that we have with bees here. Mark's lost his old 2 familiar story that has been replicated² around Britain. Today, I'm going to help put a hundred thousand of newly arrived bees into his hives. 

-Here you goes.

-That's it.

-I don't like banging them around but it has to be done yet.

-It has be be done, yeah, and that's supposed to be a killer³ of half bees.

-Will lay them there right?

-Yeah, yeah.

Mark puts losses on his farm down to the bad summers we've had in recent years.

 

1 devastating   

adj.毁灭性的，令人震惊的，强有力的

参考例句：

• It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
• Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。

2 replicated   

复制( replicate的过去式和过去分词 )； 重复； 再造； 再生

参考例句：

• Later outplant the seedlings in a replicated permanent test plantation. 以后苗木出圃栽植成重复的永久性试验林。
• The phage has replicated and the donor cells have lysed. 噬菌体已复制和给体细胞已发生裂解。

3 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。