【英语时差8，16】美国海军对搁浅喙鲸进行听力测验

 A team of U.S. Navy audiologists conducted a hearing test on a rare beaked¹ whale convalescing² at a marine³ mammal rehabilitation⁴ center in the Florida Keys.

The mature female whale has been tentatively identified as a Gervais' beaked whale or a Sowerby's beaked whale, said Dorian Houser, a consulting biologist with the Navy Marine Mammal Program in San Diego.

The whale was discovered in shallow waters behind a home in Islamorada. It was transported to the Marine Mammal Conservancy in Key Largo⁵.

Houser and Navy staff scientist James Finneran made a trip to the conservancy to establish a hearing baseline measure for the whale－something that has only been done once for a Gervais' and never for a Sowerby's. That gives them data they can use for comparison purposes in the future.

"These animals are very rare," Houser said. "Usually when you find one stranded⁶, it's dead."Researchers were taking blood samples from the 14-foot (4.3-meter)-long, 1,595-pound (723.5-kilogram) whale to try to determine why it got stranded. It also was being rehydrated with fluids through a tube in its stomach every four hours.

1 beaked   

adj.有喙的，鸟嘴状的

参考例句：

• A Fox invited a long-beaked Stork to have dinner with him. 狐狸请长嘴鹳同他一起吃饭。 来自互联网
• Most of the other fossils come from rhynchosaurs (parrot-beaked reptiles). 其他大部分化石来自剪嘴龙（嘴像鹦鹉的爬行动物）。 来自互联网

2 convalescing   

v.康复( convalesce的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• She is convalescing at home after her operation. 手术后她正在家休养康复。
• The patient is convalescing nicely. 病人正在顺利地康复。 来自辞典例句

3 marine   

adj.海的；海生的；航海的；海事的；n.水兵

参考例句：

• Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

4 rehabilitation   

n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位

参考例句：

• He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
• No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。

5 largo   

n.广板乐章；adj.缓慢的，宽广的；adv.缓慢地，宽广地

参考例句：

• The tempo marking in most cases is andante,adagio,or largo.大多数第一乐章的速度标记是行板、柔板或广板。
• The second movement is a largo.第二乐章是广板乐章。

6 stranded   

a.搁浅的，进退两难的

参考例句：

• He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
• I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。