美国小学英语教材6:第26课 卡尔·阿克利将丛林带到美国(7)（在线收听） |
All have been finished and are ready to be installed in African Hall as soon as it shall have been built. 所有一切准备完成，一旦非洲馆落成就等待搬进馆中。 Around this central hall there will be forty wonderful habitat groups of animals, 在中央大厅旁边将有40个栖息地动物标本，
twenty of which will be viewed from the main floor and twenty from the balcony. 其中20个要在主层观看，其它20个在楼厅观看。
In all these groups the animals will be shown in their natural surroundings of forest, 所有展品都会以自然景观为背景呈现，有森林，
plain, river, or mountain, with backgrounds painted by trained artists from sketches made in the field. 平原，湖泊或者山峰，背景都是艺术家在野外绘画草图后复制到背景上。
An indoor field-trip through this hall when completed will be almost as good as touring the African wilds. 在室内展览馆中探寻野外和走进非洲丛林的感觉一样好。
Since the great game animals are now decreasing, 由于狩猎动物正在逐渐减少，
it will soon be impossible to see in Africa as much of African wild life as is shown in this great hall. 在非洲原野看到它们的机会要小于展览馆。
As a part of his third expedition to Africa, Akeley had planned to go into the forests of gorilla country. 在他的第三次非洲之行中，阿克利曾计划前往非洲丛林，这个大猩猩国家。
He was compelled, however, to postpone his study of the gorillas because of a skirmish he had with an old elephant. 但他被迫暂缓对大猩猩的研究，因为他与一头老象发生了小摩擦。
In this sudden encounter Akeley was left crushed and unconscious, and several months were required for his recovery. 在这次突然袭击中，阿克利被打倒并不省人事，他需要数月的康复时间。
It was not until his fourth expedition, in 1921-22, that he entered the country where the gorillas live, 直到1921-1922年，他才再一次来到大猩猩生活的国度，
a country of marvelous beauty with large open forests and sunny hillsides. 这里的美让人惊艳，有广阔的森林和日照充足的山坡。
At this time he made the first motion pictures ever taken of wild gorillas in their natural surroundings. 这次，他第一次在野外为野生大猩猩拍摄了电影。
By his studies he showed that these man-like apes are hardly wild, 通过研究他向人们证明了，这些人形猿类动物并不野蛮，
that they are not at all the ferocious beasts they were formerly considered to be. 它们并不是之前人们认为的凶残野兽。
The gorillas already prepared for the African Hall 非洲馆中展出的大猩猩标本是人类的首次，
are the only ones ever mounted by a man who has seen them free in their native surroundings. 人类之前只在野外环境中看到过它们。 |
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