奇妙岛屿 16

歌曲 奇妙岛屿 16
歌手 英语听力
专辑 BBC南太平洋

歌词

[00:00.00] It's home to a living fossil,
[00:02.09] a relict,
[00:03.42] barely changed for over 100 million years. The tuatara.
[00:07.91] And half the world's population survive on this one island refuge.
[00:12.89] During the reign of the dinosaurs,
[00:14.42] the ancestors of the tuatara were everywhere.
[00:17.62] They survived the cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs,
[00:21.07] but then couldn't compete with the mammals and died out.
[00:24.95] Everywhere, except on what was then a mammal-free New Zealand.
[00:29.28] Unlike mammals,
[00:30.63] tuatara live life in the slow lane.
[00:34.68] Days can pass when they barely move a muscle.
[00:37.99] Sometimes taking just one breath an hour.
[00:41.49] They feed on wetas,
[00:43.25] beetles and other invertebrates
[00:45.60] but don't appear very good at catching them.
[00:48.30] Even after millions of years of practice,
[00:50.65] eye-mouth co-ordination is not what it could be.
[00:53.86] "Survival of the fittest" just doesn't seem to apply here. “
[00:58.49] The tuatara's survival,
[01:00.15] first on New Zealand,
[01:01.33] now on Stephens Island,
[01:02.75] proves a point - islands are pretty safe places to be,
[01:06.81] at least until invaded.

拼音

[00:00.00] It' s home to a living fossil,
[00:02.09] a relict,
[00:03.42] barely changed for over 100 million years. The tuatara.
[00:07.91] And half the world' s population survive on this one island refuge.
[00:12.89] During the reign of the dinosaurs,
[00:14.42] the ancestors of the tuatara were everywhere.
[00:17.62] They survived the cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs,
[00:21.07] but then couldn' t compete with the mammals and died out.
[00:24.95] Everywhere, except on what was then a mammalfree New Zealand.
[00:29.28] Unlike mammals,
[00:30.63] tuatara live life in the slow lane.
[00:34.68] Days can pass when they barely move a muscle.
[00:37.99] Sometimes taking just one breath an hour.
[00:41.49] They feed on wetas,
[00:43.25] beetles and other invertebrates
[00:45.60] but don' t appear very good at catching them.
[00:48.30] Even after millions of years of practice,
[00:50.65] eyemouth coordination is not what it could be.
[00:53.86] " Survival of the fittest" just doesn' t seem to apply here. "
[00:58.49] The tuatara' s survival,
[01:00.15] first on New Zealand,
[01:01.33] now on Stephens Island,
[01:02.75] proves a point islands are pretty safe places to be,
[01:06.81] at least until invaded.

歌词大意

[00:00.00] zhè lǐ shì huó huà shí de jiā
[00:02.09] yí gè bì nàn suǒ
[00:03.42] è xī yī yì duō nián lái jī hū méi shén me biàn huà
[00:07.91] quán shì jiè jìn bàn shù de è xī shēng huó zài zhè suǒ bì nàn dǎo shàng
[00:12.89] zài kǒng lóng dāng dào de shí dài
[00:14.42] è xī de zǔ xiān wú chǔ bù zài
[00:17.62] tā men zài nà chǎng ràng kǒng lóng miè jué de zāi nàn zhōng xìng cún xià lái
[00:21.07] dàn shì tā men méi fǎ hé bǔ rǔ dòng wù jìng zhēng màn màn de miè jué le
[00:24.95] chú le nà kuài méi yǒu bǔ rǔ dòng wù de dì fāng xīn xī lán, shì tā men néng huó xià qù de bì nàn suǒ
[00:29.28] è xī bù xiàng bǔ rǔ dòng wù
[00:30.63] tā men de shēng huó jié zòu hěn màn
[00:34.68] xǔ duō tiān guò qù le, yě xǔ tā men hái méi dòng guò shēn shàng de rèn hé yí kuài jī ròu
[00:37.99] yǒu shí shèn zhì yí gè xiǎo shí zhǐ hū xī yī cì
[00:41.49] tā men chī shā zhōng
[00:43.25] jiǎ chóng hé qí tā wú jǐ zhuī dòng wù
[00:45.60] dàn shì tā men bù tài shàn cháng bǔ zhuō zhèi xiē dōng xī
[00:48.30] jí shǐ shì jīng guò le jǐ bǎi wàn nián de shí jiàn
[00:50.65] kǒu yǎn de xié tiáo hái shì bù zěn yàng
[00:53.86] yōu shèng liè tài" de shēng huó sì hū bìng bù shì yòng yú zhè lǐ
[00:58.49] è xī de shēng cún
[01:00.15] shǒu xuǎn xīn xī lán
[01:01.33] xiàn zài dà duō jí zhōng zài sī dì fēn sī dǎo
[01:02.75] zhè yě zhèng shí le dǎo shàng de shēng huó hái shì xiāng dāng ān quán de
[01:06.81] zhì shǎo kě yǐ bǎo zhèng ān quán zhí dào yǒu qí tā wù zhǒng rù qīn