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Dian Fossey was an American zoologist who studied gorillas in Africa. Her research and life in the mountain forests of Rwanda made her famous. She wrote a book about her work, ‘Gorillas in the Mist’. A major Hollywood studio paid her a million dollars for the movie rights. Her brutal murder in 1985 had to be added to the film.
戴安·弗西是一名美國動物學家，她曾經前往非洲研究大猩猩。她在盧旺達深山中的研究和生活讓她備受關注。就她的研究，她出版了一本名叫“霧中猩猩”的圖書。一家好萊塢大制片廠出100萬美金向她購買了電影制作權。1985年，她被殘忍殺害也在電影中得以展現。
Fossey was born in 1932. She became interested in animals from a very early age and enrolled on a veterinary course. At university, she studied occupational therapy, which would help her later research. She became interested in Africa in her late twenties. She took out a loan and went to Tanzania, where she met the man who would change her life, anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey.
弗西出生于1932年。她從小就對動物感興趣，并學習了有關動物的課程。在大學期間，她學寫了作業療法，這也為她后來的研究有所幫助。在她28-9歲時，她開始對非洲產生了興趣。她貸款前往了坦桑尼亞，并在那里遇見了改變其一生的男人，人類學家路易斯·李奇博士。
Fossey was encouraged by Dr. Leakey to carry out long-term research on mountain gorillas. In 1967, she set up the Karisoke Research Centre in the remote Rwanda rainforest. She became an international celebrity in 1970 after appearing on the cover of ‘National Geographic’ magazine. It brought huge publicity for her campaign to protect the mountain gorillas and save them from extinction.
受到李奇博士的鼓勵，弗西在大猩猩出沒的深山中對猩猩進行了長期研究。1967年，她在遙遠的盧旺達熱帶雨林建立了卡里索凱研究中心。1970年，就在她登上“國際地理雜志”的封面以后，她成為了一名國際名人。這為她保護深山大猩猩和免遭滅絕活動帶來了巨大的宣傳作用。
Fossey was strongly opposed to zoos. In 1978, she tried to stop two young gorillas from being taken from Rwanda to a zoo in Germany. Twenty adult gorillas were killed during their capture. She also disagreed with “conservation tourism”, which disturbs the animals’ natural habitat. Many believe she was killed by those who wanted to make big money from gorilla tourism.
弗西強烈反對動物園。1978年，她曾試圖阻止兩只年輕大猩猩從盧旺達前往德國動物園。在這次抓捕中，有20只成年大猩猩遭到了屠殺。她還反對“保護性旅游”，這將讓動物的棲息地遭到破壞。許多人相信那些希望通過猩猩旅游來發財的人是殺害弗西的兇手。
譯文屬可可英語原創，未經允許，不得轉載。
