Conversation A
對話A
Rob: Welcome to the show, Anna Wild!
羅布:歡迎來到我們的節目,安娜·懷爾德!
Anna: Thank you, Rob. I'm glad to be here.
安娜:謝謝,羅布。我很高興來到這里。
Rob: There are some amazing animals in the world. Tell us about some.
羅布:世界上有一些令人驚奇的動物。給我們說一些吧。
Anna: Do you know what the largest animal in the world is?
安娜:你知道世界上最大的動物是什么嗎?
Rob: I think so. It's some kind of whale, right?
羅布:我想想。是某種鯨魚嗎?
Anna: Yes! A blue whale can be 32 meters long. And it eats about 3,600 kilograms of food a day!
安娜:沒錯!藍鯨有32米長。它一天會吃掉大約3600公斤的食物。
Conversation B
對話B
Rob: What about the smallest animal?
羅布:那最小的動物是什么呢?
Anna: That's a little harder to decide. There are some tiny animals out there.
安娜:這有點兒難說。世界上有一些極小的動物。
Rob: Tell me about one.
羅布:給我講一種吧。
Anna: Well, the bumblebee bat's body is only about 30 millimeters long.
安娜:凹臉蝠體長只有30毫米左右。
Rob: That's pretty small! Where do they live?
羅布:那也太小了!它們生活在哪里?
Anna: They live in Thailand. No one knew about them until 1973!
安娜:它們生活在泰國。直到1973年,才有人知道這種動物。
Rob: Interesting! How much do they weigh?
羅布:有意思!它們有多重呢?
Anna: They weigh about two grams.
安娜:大約2克左右。
Conversation C
對話C
Rob: Tell me another interesting animal fact.
羅布:給我講講另外有關動物的趣聞吧。
Anna: Well, one of my favorite animals moves very slowly.
安娜:好的,我最喜歡的一種動物里,有一種移動非常緩慢。
Rob: What animal is that?
羅布:那是什么動物?
Anna: A sloth. It's the slowest land animal. It moves only 0.24 kilometers an hour!
安娜:樹懶。這是陸地動物中最慢的。它每小時大約只移動0.24千米。
Rob: So it takes more than four hours to go a kilometer? Wow!
羅布:所以這種動物移動1千米要超過4個小時的時間?哇!
Anna: They're slow because their claws are so long. But they don't walk much. They spend most of their time in trees.
安娜:它們很慢,因為它們的爪子非常長。但是它們不會走很多路。它們大多數時間都待在樹上。