英文原版对话1000个:1139 Sea Turtles

 　　Mike: So Dusty, your background is in Marine¹ Biology. Is that right?

 

　　Dusty: Yes.

 

　　Mike: You're kind of a marine biologist.

 

　　Dusty: Mm-hm.

 

　　Mike: You've mentioned before yesterday, we're at the aquarium², you mentioned that you've done work with sea turtles in helping³ sea turtles. Can you tell me what you were doing there?

 

　　Dusty: Yeah. Well, when I was in university, during the first two summers of my university, I would go to Greece, and I worked at a sea turtle rehabilitation⁴ center.

 

　　Mike: Wow.

 

　　Dusty: Basically, I kind of worked like a sea turtle nurse. So I went out, give injections to turtles that were sick, and help sew up wounds, and basically, just do first aid for sea turtles.

 

　　Mike: Were you wearing like a cute little nurse's outfit⁵?

 

　　Dusty: All the time. Actually, I found that helpful a lot.

 

　　Mike: What kind of care do sea turtles require?

 

　　Dusty: Well basically, what happens is when a sea turtle gets sick, their defense⁶ mechanism⁷ is that they just float, you know. They're not fish; they can't breathe water.

 

　　Mike: Right.

 

　　Dusty: So for them, it's better to be on the surface.

 

　　Mike: Okay.

 

　　Dusty: Sometimes, kind fishermen find them, or people on the beach find them, and they bring it to us. The first thing we do is we give them a freshwater bath, because, you know, sea turtles live in saltwater, so all their parasites⁸ are things that are used to being in saltwater. So when you give them the freshwater, that kills most of them. We get some of the barnacles, clean up their shells a bit, and try and see what the injury was.

 

　　After that, we put them usually on - give them vitamin injections to kind of get their systems up a bit. And then, we take them to a professional vet⁹ if they're really badly injured. The most common things we found were fish hooks stuck in throats.

 

　　Mike: Wow!

 

　　Dusty: Or sometimes, they'd swallow things. Sea turtles will eat anything.

 

　　Mike: Really?

 

　　Dusty: Yeah. The amount of cigarette butts¹⁰ you'll find coming out of one sea turtle is incredible. You'd think they were chain smokers¹¹.

 

　　Mike: Holy smoke! Holy smoke is right, I guess. What was the worst sea turtle kind of situation that you found?

 

　　Dusty: You know, one of the things, apparently¹², in Greece - and I don't know if it still goes on; it's just almost ten years ago - but apparently, it's bad luck to catch a sea turtle in your nets, and so they try to kill the turtles. Not all fishermen, but many fishermen would try to injure the turtles. It's really hard to kill one. They only use what they had on the boat, which meant their boots or their fish hooks or their knives, or what not. They're tough creatures.

 

　　So we had one turtle came in, who's head had just been split open. You know, it looked like someone had opened a book all the way, and you could see its skull¹³ and even a section of its brain. And they've gouged¹⁴ out, I think, one of its eyes. It was not in a good shape. The kind of sad thing is that, you know, the best thing to do would be to euthanize the turtle, but we're not allowed to do that because they're threatened or endangered species. So you have to get permission from the government first to do it, and they have to - yeah.

 

　　Mike: Wow! Sounds like a process. I'm assuming that the turtle didn't make it out too well.

 

　　Dusty: No. Yeah, that one's been set down. It's really a hard choice, you know.

 

　　Mike: Yeah. I got to understand that. Any happy turtle stories?

 

　　Dusty: Yup, lots of happy turtle stories, too. A lot of times, we get turtles that come in with a flipper¹⁵ that's missing, and that's actually not a big deal.

 

　　Mike: Really?

 

　　Dusty: Yeah. They can survive with missing a flipper.

 

　　Mike: Really?

 

　　Dusty: Sometimes even two flippers, depending on which ones.

 

　　Mike: Really?

 

　　Dusty: It's kind of nice to rehabilitate¹⁶ them and see them go from when it's not eating and is very weak, within just a few months, be much stronger and ready to swim off.

 

　　Mike: Can you give them like a peg¹⁷ flipper, or something?

 

　　Dusty: Actually, some scientists are looking to do that.

 

　　Mike: Really?

 

　　Dusty: Yeah. In Japan, there are scientists now that are working on making fake limbs for sea turtles. And that's one of the possibilities.

 

　　Mike: Fascinating stuff! Wow!

 

　　Dusty: Yeah. In one of the islands, the veterinarians there were using actual bird wings, like the bones inside them -

 

　　Mike: Really? Wow!

 

　　Dusty: --to help rebuild the sea turtle shells. Sea turtle shells will grow back, as well, if they're injured. We had one turtle that was missing about 15% of its shell from the back down. And we just watched in less than two months, a good chunk¹⁸ of that had grown back. Actually, it was really surprising.

 

　　Mike: How did it lose its shell?

 

　　Dusty: Probably a propeller¹⁹. Sea turtles - they're not very fast, and they're not very smart. And they tend to get hit by boats a lot, as well. So you'll see these big gashes²⁰ in their shells sometimes.

 

　　Mike: Okay. So you won't see too many sea turtle mathematicians²¹.

 

　　Dusty: No. Sea turtle politicians, perhaps.

 

　　Mike: We got plenty of those, yes.

1 marine   

adj.海的；海生的；航海的；海事的；n.水兵

参考例句：

• Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

2 aquarium   

n.水族馆，养鱼池，玻璃缸

参考例句：

• The first time I saw seals was in an aquarium.我第一次看见海豹是在水族馆里。
• I'm going to the aquarium with my parents this Sunday.这个星期天，我要和父母一起到水族馆去。

3 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

4 rehabilitation   

n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位

参考例句：

• He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
• No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。

5 outfit   

n.（为特殊用途的）全套装备，全套服装

参考例句：

• Jenney bought a new outfit for her daughter's wedding.珍妮为参加女儿的婚礼买了一套新装。
• His father bought a ski outfit for him on his birthday.他父亲在他生日那天给他买了一套滑雪用具。

6 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

7 mechanism   

n.机械装置；机构，结构

参考例句：

• The bones and muscles are parts of the mechanism of the body.骨骼和肌肉是人体的组成部件。
• The mechanism of the machine is very complicated.这台机器的结构是非常复杂的。

8 parasites   

寄生物( parasite的名词复数 )； 靠他人为生的人； 诸虫

参考例句：

• These symptoms may be referable to virus infection rather than parasites. 这些症状也许是由病毒感染引起的，而与寄生虫无关。
• Kangaroos harbor a vast range of parasites. 袋鼠身上有各种各样的寄生虫。

9 vet   

n.兽医，退役军人；vt.检查

参考例句：

• I took my dog to the vet.我把狗带到兽医诊所看病。
• Someone should vet this report before it goes out.这篇报道发表之前应该有人对它进行详查。

10 butts   

笑柄( butt的名词复数 )； （武器或工具的）粗大的一端； 屁股； 烟蒂

参考例句：

• The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。
• The house butts to a cemetery. 这所房子和墓地相连。

11 smokers   

吸烟者( smoker的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Many smokers who are chemically addicted to nicotine cannot cut down easily. 许多有尼古丁瘾的抽烟人不容易把烟戒掉。
• Chain smokers don't care about the dangers of smoking. 烟鬼似乎不在乎吸烟带来的种种危害。

12 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

13 skull   

n.头骨；颅骨

参考例句：

• The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
• He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去，跌裂了颅骨。

14 gouged   

v.凿( gouge的过去式和过去分词 )；乱要价；（在…中）抠出…；挖出…

参考例句：

• The lion's claws had gouged a wound in the horse's side. 狮爪在马身一侧抓了一道深口。
• The lovers gouged out their names on the tree. 情人们把他们的名字刻在树上。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

15 flipper   

n. 鳍状肢，潜水用橡皮制鳍状肢

参考例句：

• The seal's flipper is homologous with the human arm. 海豹的鳍肢与人类的手臂同源。
• It's almost like a flipper action as she kicks down. 她向下踢腿时有鱼鳍的效果。

16 rehabilitate   

vt.改造(罪犯)，修复；vi.复兴，(罪犯)经受改造

参考例句：

• There was no money to rehabilitate the tower.没有资金修复那座塔。
• He used exercise programmes to rehabilitate the patients.他采用体育锻炼疗法使患者恢复健康。

17 peg   

n.木栓，木钉；vt.用木钉钉，用短桩固定

参考例句：

• Hang your overcoat on the peg in the hall.把你的大衣挂在门厅的挂衣钩上。
• He hit the peg mightily on the top with a mallet.他用木槌猛敲木栓顶。

18 chunk   

n.厚片，大块，相当大的部分（数量）

参考例句：

• They had to be careful of floating chunks of ice.他们必须当心大块浮冰。
• The company owns a chunk of farmland near Gatwick Airport.该公司拥有盖特威克机场周边的大片农田。

19 propeller   

n.螺旋桨，推进器

参考例句：

• The propeller started to spin around.螺旋桨开始飞快地旋转起来。
• A rope jammed the boat's propeller.一根绳子卡住了船的螺旋桨。

20 gashes   

n.深长的切口（或伤口）( gash的名词复数 )v.划伤，割破( gash的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The classmates' hearts ached for him and they begged him to wear gloves to prevent any more gashes. 同学们都心疼他，劝他干活时戴上手套，免得再弄破手。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He stripped himself, and I counted twenty-seven separate scars and gashes. 他脱去衣服，我在他身上数出了二十七处瘢痕和深深的伤口。 来自辞典例句

21 mathematicians   

数学家( mathematician的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? 你以为我们的数学家做不到这一点吗？ 来自英汉文学
• Mathematicians can solve problems with two variables. 数学家们可以用两个变数来解决问题。 来自哲学部分