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All have been finished and are ready to be installed in African Hall as soon as it shall have been built.
所有一切準備完成，一旦非洲館落成就等待搬進館中。
Around this central hall there will be forty wonderful habitat groups of animals,
在中央大廳旁邊將有40個棲息地動物標本，
twenty of which will be viewed from the main floor and twenty from the balcony.
其中20個要在主層觀看，其它20個在樓廳觀看。
In all these groups the animals will be shown in their natural surroundings of forest,
所有展品都會以自然景觀為背景呈現，有森林，
plain, river, or mountain, with backgrounds painted by trained artists from sketches made in the field.
平原，湖泊或者山峰，背景都是藝術家在野外繪畫草圖后復制到背景上。
An indoor field-trip through this hall when completed will be almost as good as touring the African wilds.
在室內展覽館中探尋野外和走進非洲叢林的感覺一樣好。
Since the great game animals are now decreasing,
由于狩獵動物正在逐漸減少，
it will soon be impossible to see in Africa as much of African wild life as is shown in this great hall.
在非洲原野看到它們的機會要小于展覽館。
As a part of his third expedition to Africa, Akeley had planned to go into the forests of gorilla country.
在他的第三次非洲之行中，阿克利曾計劃前往非洲叢林，這個大猩猩國家。
He was compelled, however, to postpone his study of the gorillas because of a skirmish he had with an old elephant.
但他被迫暫緩對大猩猩的研究，因為他與一頭老象發生了小摩擦。
In this sudden encounter Akeley was left crushed and unconscious, and several months were required for his recovery.
在這次突然襲擊中，阿克利被打倒并不省人事，他需要數月的康復時間。
It was not until his fourth expedition, in 1921-22, that he entered the country where the gorillas live,
直到1921-1922年，他才再一次來到大猩猩生活的國度，
a country of marvelous beauty with large open forests and sunny hillsides.
這里的美讓人驚艷，有廣闊的森林和日照充足的山坡。
At this time he made the first motion pictures ever taken of wild gorillas in their natural surroundings.
這次，他第一次在野外為野生大猩猩拍攝了電影。
By his studies he showed that these man-like apes are hardly wild,
通過研究他向人們證明了，這些人形猿類動物并不野蠻，
that they are not at all the ferocious beasts they were formerly considered to be.
它們并不是之前人們認為的兇殘野獸。
The gorillas already prepared for the African Hall
非洲館中展出的大猩猩標本是人類的首次，
are the only ones ever mounted by a man who has seen them free in their native surroundings.
人類之前只在野外環境中看到過它們。
