英语听力：自然百科 人类抚养的大猩猩(上)

This is Wild Chronicles. I am White Matthews.

这里是《野生动物日记》。我是怀特·马修斯。

At the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, an infant gorilla¹ named Wumundi gets some tender loving care from a dedicated² keeper and lots of attention from curious visitors.

在夏延山动物园,一个名叫Wumundi的婴儿猩猩在一名专业看护员及很多好奇游客的帮助中得到了温柔呵护。

He is on with a keeper all the time 24 hours a day.

他所有的时间甚至一天24小时都无时无刻在看护。

Zoo spokesman Sean Anglum explains that the baby's real mother abandoned him at birth. Twelve-year-old Kwisha was hand raised by humans with diapers and bottle. She had nowhere to learn how to raise her own young.

动物园发言人肖恩·安格鲁姆解释说,婴儿的亲生母亲在它出生时弃他于不顾。十二岁的Kwisha的吃喝拉撒都是经由人类之手抚养。她没有办法学习如何抚养自己的下一代。

His mom gave birth to him and didn't really know what to do with him. She was hand reared; she never had a child before; she had never been around other gorillas³ that have a baby so she really didn't know any of the procedure. She didn't know what to do.

他的妈妈生下他,真的不知道拿他怎么办。她被人类养育，她从未有过孩子,她身边从未有过其他猩猩母亲,她举棋不定不知道下一步该怎么做。她真的不知道怎么办才好。

Wild gorillas, on the other hand, have plenty of role models.

另一方面,野生大猩猩,有大量的榜样。

I often tell people of the human, has never seen a baby and never seen, you know, anything on TV, or books about a baby, and have a baby, they probably wouldn't know what to do either. We just take it for granted that, so much around us teaches us what we need to know. And they are really about the same way; they need to learn most of things they know.

我经常告诉别其他人类，虽然从来没有见过婴儿，但你能从任何相关的电视、书籍中获得婴儿的相关信息。而在有孩子的时候，他们也可能不知道要做什么。我们只是想当然地认为，我们周围的环境告诉我们需要知道的。他们应该是相同的方式，他们需要学习很多他们知道的东西。

With his own mom unable to care for him, the task of rearing little Wumundi has fallen on keepers like Mandy Hollingsworth. But he is not being raised to be like his mother. Instead of treating Wumundi like a human baby, Mandy is acting⁴ like a gorilla mom.

既然他自己的妈妈无法抚育他，小Wumundi的抚养任务就落在看门人曼迪?赫利沃斯身上。但他没有像个母亲，而是把Wumundi当成了人类婴儿,曼蒂表现的像一只猩猩母亲。

词语解释:

1. gorilla n. 猩猩

2. diaper n. 尿布

1 gorilla   

n.大猩猩，暴徒，打手

参考例句：

• I was awed by the huge gorilla.那只大猩猩使我惊惧。
• A gorilla is just a speechless animal.猩猩只不过是一种不会说话的动物。

2 dedicated   

adj.一心一意的；献身的；热诚的

参考例句：

• He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
• His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。

3 gorillas   

n.大猩猩( gorilla的名词复数 )；暴徒，打手

参考例句：

• the similitude between humans and gorillas 人类和大猩猩的相像
• Each family of gorillas is led by a great silverbacked patriarch. 每个大星星家族都由一个魁梧的、长着银色被毛的族长带领着。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。