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Lesson 46 Tigers
第46課老虎
Tigers are found in India and most of the countries of South-east Asia. They live in forests and grassy plains, where there are plenty of other animals for them to hunt for food.
老虎生活在印度和大多數(shù)的東南亞國家。它們生活在森林里和草原上，那里有豐富的獵物供它們捕食。
If you see a tiger in the zoo, you may think its coat is brightly collared and easily seen, but in the jungles and grassland where it lives, a tiger is hard to see. The sunlight, shining through leaves and branches, makes patches of bright light and shadow. A tiger's golden collared coat mixes so well into these patches of sunlight and shadow that it is not easily seen. When it walks through the long forest grass, it is also hard to see, for its hair is the same colour as the blades of yellowish grass and patches of deep shadow.
在動物園里見到老虎，你可能認(rèn)為它們的皮毛顏色亮麗，很容易被發(fā)現(xiàn)，但是在它們所生活的叢林里和草地上，老虎是很難被發(fā)現(xiàn)的。陽光穿過樹葉和樹枝，使光亮和陰影斑駁交錯。老虎的金黃色皮毛與這些光亮和陰影很好地融合在一起，使它們很難被發(fā)現(xiàn)。老虎走在深深的森林草叢里，也很難被發(fā)現(xiàn)，因為老虎的毛發(fā)與淺黃色草葉和深色陰影交錯的顏色是一樣的。
This camouflage, as we call it, is very important, because tigers are hunters and catch other animals for their food. If the animals could see a tiger coming, they would quickly escape. It has strong, sharp teeth which it uses for seizing and eating the animals it catches. A tiger's chief food is deer, wild pigs, monkeys and other small animals, but it will also kill cows. A tiger is also very strong and if it kills a deer or a cow, it will often drag the dead animal several hundred yards to the shelter of some bushes, where it can eat its meal in peace. Tigers usually hunt and eat at night, and during the daytime they lie resting, hidden in the long grass.
這種我們所說的偽裝是非常重要的，因為老虎是獵手，靠捕獵其他動物為食。如果獵物看到老虎來了，它們就會快速地逃離。老虎長著堅硬鋒利的牙齒，用來抓住和咬食捕捉到的獵物。老虎主要的食物是鹿、野豬、猴子和其他小動物，但是也會捕食牛。老虎非常強壯，殺死鹿或牛后，老虎通常會將獵物的尸體拖到幾百碼外的樹叢隱蔽處，然后安靜地進食。老虎通常在晚上捕獵和進食，白天它們躲在深深的草叢里休息。
