- 英語聽力 奇妙島嶼 07 歌詞
- 英語聽力
- The spider-silk lure hangs below the kite,
風箏下面是蜘蛛絲誘餌垂
flitting across the water like an insect.
就像昆蟲一樣在水中掠過
Now he must steer the kite to where he thinks the fish are gathered.
現在他必須把風箏控制在他認為魚群聚集的地方
Somewhere, just beneath the surface, shoals of needlefish lie in wait.
某處在水面下顎針魚群埋伏以待
He keeps a close eye on the kite - if it drops, a fish is snared.
他留心注意風箏如果它下跌魚就中圈套了
No hook is needed.
無需魚鉤
The sharp teeth and rough scales of the needlefish are tangled in the spider silk.
有著鋒利的牙齒和粗糙的魚鱗的顎針魚受到了蜘蛛絲的迷惑
Its clever, its effective...
靈巧而又有效...
..and many fish can be caught in this way.
許多魚就用這種方法捕獲..
Their ability to adapt and find food both on land and at sea
適應了既能在海洋也能在陸地覓食的技能
was crucial to the survival of the Pacifics first human colonizers.
是太平洋首批人類開拓者生存的關鍵
But it wasnt all plain sailing...
但並非一切都是順利的
the Pacifics more remote islands
太平洋許多偏遠島嶼是
were some of the last places on Earth to be discovered by humans.
人類最晚發現的一些地方
And the island chain of Hawaii is the remotest of them all.
夏威夷列島是其中最偏僻的
These islands are so hard to reach that before humans arrived,
人類到達前這些島嶼很難觸及
only one new species of plant or animal turned up here every 35,000 years.
每隔35000年才會有一個新的植物或動物物種出現在這裡
For those lucky few that made it, this was a land of milk and honey.
對於那些幸運到達的這是一片肥沃而豐裕的土地
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