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To stay is to face the certainty of snow and wolves. To go offers the chance of an easier life, but the uncertainty1 of the world beyond Yellowstone.
Every autumn, thousands of elk2 do leave Yellowstone, and as they go, they cross an invisible line out of the protection of the national park. Here, they confront new danger. Dressed in orange to avoid each other, but a color that elk can’t see, hunters come to the forests just around Yellowstone in October to shoot elk.
Elk, of course, have no understanding of park boundaries or of Yellowstone. To them, this is simply an instinctive/ migration3 to find more hospitable4 land, so they just keep going. Beyond the ring of hunting lands, the natural mosaic5 of forest and grass is replaced by an alien geometry, circles of irrigated6 grass, squares of maize7, golf courses, the signature patterns of mankind. It’s unlikely they’ll be welcome here.
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1 uncertainty | |
n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物 | |
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2 elk | |
n.麋鹿 | |
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3 migration | |
n.迁移,移居,(鸟类等的)迁徙 | |
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adj.好客的;宽容的;有利的,适宜的 | |
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5 mosaic | |
n./adj.镶嵌细工的,镶嵌工艺品的,嵌花式的 | |
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6 irrigated | |
[医]冲洗的 | |
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n.玉米 | |
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