英语听力：自然百科 徒步南非之克鲁格公园(7)

Day one on foot in the Kruger has been absorbing.

第一天徒步克鲁格一直在学习各种各样的事物。

Yako's relaxed approach can easily make you forget about the reality of where you are.

Yako的轻松方法可以轻易让你忘记现实是在哪里。

But as we head back to camp, he tells me of an occasion when a walker encountered a leopard¹ inside the camp ended dead of night.

但当我们回到营地,他告诉我夜深人静营地里的一名徒步者遭遇豹子的情境。

It seems that occasionally elderly animals prefer rummaging² through beans to running after their own prey³.

看起来偶尔年长的动物更喜欢追赶自己的猎物。

Yako's lent me thisbook.

Yako借给我这本书。

It's the memoirs⁴ of Harry⁵ Voliter,

这是哈利·沃利特的回忆录,

who's the pioneering game ranger⁶ from this park.

他是这个公园角逐赛事的先驱者。

One of the reasons that he's famous is that he survived a lion attack.

而他著名的一个原因是他从一头狮子的袭击中活了下来。

A pair of lions knocked him off his horse.

一对狮子使他从马上落下。

One of the lions went after the horse itself,

一只狮子追赶马,

and the other lion savaged⁷ him from the rear.

而另一只则从他的后方猛烈攻击。

Of course, in those first few moments I was convinced that it was all over for me,

当然,在前面的时刻我确信对我来说一切都结束了,

but then as the painful progress still continued, it suddenly struck me that I might still have my sheep knife.

但随着痛苦仍然继续,我忽然觉得为之一震，我还有我的羊刀傍身。

1 leopard   

n.豹

参考例句：

• I saw a man in a leopard skin yesterday.我昨天看见一个穿着豹皮的男人。
• The leopard's skin is marked with black spots.豹皮上有黑色斑点。

2 rummaging   

翻找，搜寻( rummage的现在分词 )； 海关检查

参考例句：

• She was rummaging around in her bag for her keys. 她在自己的包里翻来翻去找钥匙。
• Who's been rummaging through my papers? 谁乱翻我的文件来着？

3 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。

4 memoirs   

n.回忆录；回忆录传( mem,自oir的名词复数)

参考例句：

• Her memoirs were ghostwritten. 她的回忆录是由别人代写的。
• I watched a trailer for the screenplay of his memoirs. 我看过以他的回忆录改编成电影的预告片。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

6 ranger   

n.国家公园管理员，护林员；骑兵巡逻队员

参考例句：

• He was the head ranger of the national park.他曾是国家公园的首席看守员。
• He loved working as a ranger.他喜欢做护林人。

7 savaged   

（动物）凶狠地攻击（或伤害）( savage的过去式和过去分词 )； 残害； 猛烈批评； 激烈抨击

参考例句：

• The horse threw its rider to the ground and savaged him. 那马将骑马者摔在地上，乱踢他。
• The drink had savaged him. 酒使他变得野蛮。