人教新课标高中英语必修四课文逐句翻译.pdf

1.必修四 Unit1A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE 非洲野生动物研究者 It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Africa. 清晨 5点 45分，太阳刚从东非的贡贝国家公园的上空升起， Following Janes way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest. 我们一行人准备按照简研究黑猩猩的方法去 森林里拜访它们。 Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans. 简研究这些黑猩猩家族已经很多年了， 她帮助 人们了解黑猩猩跟人类的行为是多么的相似。 Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day. 我们当天的首项任务就是观察黑猩猩一家是如何醒来的。 This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before. 这意味着我们要返 回前一天晚上我们离开黑猩猩一家睡觉的大树旁。 Everybody sits and waits in the shade of the trees while the family begins to wake up and move off. 大家坐在树荫下等待着，这时候猩猩们 睡醒了，准备离开。 Then we follow as they wander into the forest. 然后这群黑猩猩向森林深 处漫步而去， 我们尾随其后。 Most of the time, chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family. 在大部分时间里， 黑猩猩或相互喂食， 或彼此擦身， 这在它们的 家庭里是表示爱的方式。 Jane warns us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right. 简预先提醒我们，到下午的时候我们就会又脏又累。她说对了。 However, the evening makes it all worthwhile. 不过到傍晚时分我们觉得这一切都是值得的。 We watch the mother chimp and her babies play in the tree. Then we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night. 我们看到黑猩猩妈妈跟她的幼子们在树上玩耍， 后来看见它们晚上 一起回窝里睡觉了。 We realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human family. 我明白了猩猩家庭成员之间的联系像人类家庭一样紧密。 Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour. 在简之前没有人完全了解黑猩猩 的行为。 She spent years observing and recording their daily activities. 她花了多年的时间来观 察并记录黑猩猩的日常生活。 Since her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in the