赖世雄英语新闻听力通 第14期:早期人类将稀有物种猎捕殆尽

 (San Francisco,AP)Prehistoric human hunters,using spears and fire, drove many large animals to extinction¹.

（美联社旧金山电）史前时期的猎人使用矛与火猎捕许多大型动物，迫使它们绝种。

About 13，000 years ago, large mammoths, huge antelope² and very tall camels, populated North America.

大约在一万三千年前，北美地区栖息许多体型巨大的长毛象、大羚羊与长得很高的骆驼。

All disappeared within a thousand years or so after the first Americans migrated from Asia.

第一批亚洲人迁徙到美洲之后，这些大型动物大约在一千年之内全数消失。

They had moved across a dry land bridge between the two continents.

这些亚洲人越过连接这两块大陆的干陆桥来到美洲。

1 extinction   

n.熄灭，消亡，消灭，灭绝，绝种

参考例句：

• The plant is now in danger of extinction.这种植物现在有绝种的危险。
• The island's way of life is doomed to extinction.这个岛上的生活方式注定要消失。

2 antelope   

n.羚羊；羚羊皮

参考例句：

• Choosing the antelope shows that China wants a Green Olympics.选择藏羚羊表示中国需要绿色奥运。
• The tiger was dragging the antelope across the field.老虎拖着羚羊穿过原野。