英语听力：自然百科 徒步南非之花园大道 The Garden Route—7

 Bloody hell, so the fynboses becomes finely manicured grass, about the nature, I’d like to introduce you to the leisure industry. Pinnacle¹ point is perhaps the most ambitious development on the stretch of the garden route. Up to 850 properties are planned here with an elaborately designed golf course at its heart. 

 

Assume that mega-building is the club house and you can see from here how carefully positioned the golf course is, right on the edge of the cliffs. The 19th hole must be the sea. But the symbol of modern garden route development may prove to be an unlikely cover to one of the greatest treasures of southern Africa. And so it’s by the clubhouse that I’m meeting an international expert who’s exploring the extraordinary story of what lies below. 

 

Professor Curtis Marian and his team from Arizona have been here for 18 years, much longer in fact than the golf course. Beneath the glamour² of the resort, Curtis’s work takes place in these simple caves, work that suggests that every single person on the planet can trace their origins to this very spot. 

 

Now as I understand it, the work you are doing is so significant, you could spend the rest of your working career here, is that right?

 

I could easily spend the rest of my working career here, I mean to dig one of these sites—13B, it took us 8 years.

 

It’s widely believed and understood now that we all come from Africa, so I guess the two remaining questions are where in Africa and exactly when?

 

We know that that lineage that leads to everyone appeared sometime between 200,000 and 140,000 years ago, we think that progenitor³ population was here on the coast of South Africa. 

 

So cave 13B holds some bigger ounces?

 

We think that those people lived in that cave?

 

Let’s go see it.

 

Ok. This way.

1 pinnacle   

n.尖塔，尖顶，山峰；(喻)顶峰

参考例句：

• Now he is at the very pinnacle of his career.现在他正值事业中的顶峰时期。
• It represents the pinnacle of intellectual capability.它代表了智能的顶峰。

2 glamour   

n.魔力，魅力；vt.迷住

参考例句：

• Foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.到国外旅行对她已失去吸引力了。
• The moonlight cast a glamour over the scene.月光给景色增添了魅力。

3 progenitor   

n.祖先，先驱

参考例句：

• He was also a progenitor of seven presidents of Nicaragua.他也是尼加拉瓜7任总统的祖先。
• Schoenberg was a progenitor of modern music.勋伯格是一位现代音乐的先驱。