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The wonders of dolphins
海豚的奇妙
Read this magazine article to find out about man's true best friend.
閱讀這篇雜志文章，找出人類真正的最好的朋友。
Here is a true story.
這是一個(gè)真實(shí)的故事。
In June 1990, Keith, Steve and Dave, three friends, were fishing about 35 miles off the east coast of America when their boat sank.
在1990年6月，當(dāng)他們的船下沉的時(shí)候，基思，斯蒂夫和戴夫三個(gè)朋友正在離美國東海岸35英里的地方釣魚。
They clung to the boat praying for rescue.
他們緊抓漁船不放，乞求著有人來解救他們。
The hours went by. Night came.
幾個(gè)小時(shí)過去了，夜晚來臨。
'We had been thinking about sharks all night.' said Keith.
“我們已經(jīng)整整考慮鯊魚一晚上了”基思說。
The next morning a really big fish approached.
第二天早上，一條大魚靠近了他們。
I asked Steve, 'Do you know what that fish is?'
我問斯蒂夫：“你知道那是什么魚嗎？”
He said it was a shark.
他說那是一條鯊魚。
Suddenly there were dolphins all around us.
突然，我們的周圍都是海豚。
It was the dolphins that pushed back the shark, and drove it away.
是這些海豚驅(qū)走了鯊魚。
Steve said, 'Tell them to go and get help,'
斯蒂夫說：“告訴它們?nèi)フ胰藥兔Γ?/div>
so I said, 'Hey, go get help,' and the dolphins all disappeared.
我說：“嘿，去找人幫忙”，然后海豚全部都消失了。
Thirty minutes later, they came back, bringing a coastguard boat with them.
30分鐘后，它們帶著海岸警衛(wèi)隊(duì)的船回來了。
The men were rescued.
這三人得救了。
The coastguards told them that the dolphins swam in front of the boat all of the way until they located them.
海岸警衛(wèi)隊(duì)員告訴他們是這些海豚一路領(lǐng)著隊(duì)員們直到找到了他們。
Why dolphins sometimes act like this is a mystery to most people.
海豚為什么會(huì)時(shí)常做出如此舉動(dòng)對于大多數(shù)人來說是一個(gè)謎。
The ancient Greeks certainly believed that dolphins were very special.
古希臘人篤信海豚是很特別的。
They believed dolphins could think and act like humans,
他們認(rèn)為海豚可以像人類一樣思考并行動(dòng)，
and had many stories of dolphins befriending young boys and saving sailors by towing them to shore.
并有許多關(guān)于海豚及時(shí)幫助小男孩和救助水手并把他們拖向岸邊的故事。
In those days, the penalty for killing a dolphin was death.
在那時(shí)，捕殺海豚要判死刑。
In modern times, we know a number of scientific facts about dolphins.
在當(dāng)代，我們知道大量關(guān)于海豚的事實(shí)。
We know that they are mammals, not fish.
我們知道它們是哺乳動(dòng)物而不是魚。
They must come up to the surface to breathe air.
它們必須上到海水表面來呼吸空氣。
They can live to about 35 or 45.
它們能存活至35歲或45歲。
They are among the most intelligent animals in the world, with good memories,
它們是世界上最聰明的動(dòng)物之一，記憶力強(qiáng)，
and can be trained to follow complicated sets of commands.
還能接受訓(xùn)練去執(zhí)行一系列復(fù)雜的指令。
They use a kind of sonar to locate objects, and they can communicate with each other.
它們運(yùn)用一種聲吶來搜尋目標(biāo)，它們還可以互相交流。
