Parenting on the move is all about sacrifice.
在遷徙中父母大多都犧牲了自己,保全了后代。
And in the forests of northeastern Australia, another great journey spurred by parental dedication is about to begin. On translucent tawny wings, a little red flying fox flaps homeward after a night of intense foraging. And she is one of millions.
在澳大利亞東北部的森林,由于父母的奉獻(xiàn),另一個(gè)偉大的征程即將開始。拍打著半透明的黃色翅膀,一只紅色的小飛狐在一夜緊張的覓食后正在歸途當(dāng)中。她是數(shù)以百萬計(jì)當(dāng)中的一個(gè)。
Somehow, she finds her pup in the din of the camp. She wraps him in her nursing embrace. He needs calcium from her milk to build flimsy bones. And he's leaching it away from her own fragile flying machinery at an alarming rate.
不知怎么地,她發(fā)現(xiàn)她的小崽在窩里有些吵鬧。她一把將他摟入懷中照料。她從奶中給予他鈣質(zhì)以幫助他來搭建很薄的骨頭。他在令人擔(dān)憂的從她脆弱的飛行器中過濾它。
The bats have eaten through the calcium and energy-rich eucalyptus blossoms for miles around. The situation is getting desperate, the need to move intense.
蝙蝠通過攝取方圓數(shù)英里之外的桉樹花來獲得大量鈣質(zhì)和自身所需能量。現(xiàn)在的形勢十分緊張,是需要遷徙的時(shí)候了。
詞語解釋:
1. sacrifice v. 犧牲
2. spur v. 刺激,激勵(lì);鼓舞
3. translucent a. 透明的
4. tawny a.黃褐色的
5. pup n. 小狗,幼犬
來源:可可英語 http://www.ccdyzl.cn/Article/201111/161782.shtml