英语听力：自然百科 鲨鱼湾的海豚—6

 "Here's Puck right here with India. He just stroked her along the side. Right now, Puck seems to be very tolerant of India. I don't know if that will happen when the baby is born, and she might really have to push India out of the way. Puck can't support two calves¹ at once and certainly not a giant one along with the little one."

 

Home for the research team is this mobile caravan². It's been a long day following different families in the Bay. The life stories of more than 1,600 dolphins are stored in this state-of-the-art database - every birth, every death, every interaction is input³ with pains-taking detail.

 

"When I started this research project in the 1980s, literally⁴ nothing was known about wild bottlenose dolphins. And since then we've learned a tremendous amount. But we still haven't followed a single animal from birth to very old age."

 

Puck could be the first wild dolphin whose entire life story is known. Three weeks later, Puck's still waiting for her baby to be born. Today, she's out hunting alone. These grassy⁵ meadows are exceptionally rich feeding grounds, but it's dangerous hunting out here. The tiger sharks are arriving, and this is their favorite place to feed. A stealth hunter, it uses the cover of the sea grass to creep up on its prey⁶.

1 calves   

n.(calf的复数)笨拙的男子，腓；腿肚子( calf的名词复数 )；牛犊；腓；小腿肚v.生小牛( calve的第三人称单数 )；（冰川）崩解；生（小牛等），产（犊）；使（冰川）崩解

参考例句：

• a cow suckling her calves 给小牛吃奶的母牛
• The calves are grazed intensively during their first season. 小牛在生长的第一季里集中喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 caravan   

n.大蓬车；活动房屋

参考例句：

• The community adviser gave us a caravan to live in.社区顾问给了我们一间活动住房栖身。
• Geoff connected the caravan to the car.杰弗把旅行用的住屋拖车挂在汽车上。

3 input   

n.输入(物)；投入；vt.把(数据等)输入计算机

参考例句：

• I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.我将永远感激他的大量投入。
• All this information had to be input onto the computer.所有这些信息都必须输入计算机。

4 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

5 grassy   

adj.盖满草的；长满草的

参考例句：

• They sat and had their lunch on a grassy hillside.他们坐在长满草的山坡上吃午饭。
• Cattle move freely across the grassy plain.牛群自由自在地走过草原。

6 prey   

n.被掠食者，牺牲者，掠食；v.捕食，掠夺，折磨

参考例句：

• Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
• The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。