纪录片《我们的地球》 第186期 多样浅海(20)

The giant shearwater flocks hunt the krill swarms¹

庞大的水雉鸟群大量捕食磷虾，

sometimes diving to depths of forty meters to reach them.

有时它们潜到40米深。

A large humpback eats three tons of krill a day.

一头成年座头鲸每天能吃掉3吨磷虾。

The polar seas in summer are the most productive on the planet

夏季的极地海域是地球上最多产的，

and the whales gorge² themselves round the clock.

鲸鱼昼夜不停地在此进食。

The fat reserves they lay down now will keep them alive during the year to come

它们现在积累的脂肪可以支持到明年再来，

but it may not always be this way.

不过也可能不会再来了。

Fish and krill stocks are declining so rapidly that spectacles like this may soon be part of history.

鱼和磷虾的产量正在迅速减少，像这样的景象可能很快将成为历史。

Once the mother and calf³ have reached their feeding grounds, they will separate.

一旦母鲸和小鲸到达他们的给养地，它们就要分开。

With luck, the calf will make the epic⁴ journey across the oceans from equator to pole another seventy times

如果幸运的话，小座头鲸还要把从赤道到极地的史诗般旅程重复70次，

cruising back and forth⁵ between the shallow seas where life proliferates⁶ so abundantly on our planet.

让我们在浅海之间来回巡游，赞叹于地球生命的丰富多彩。

1 swarms   

蜂群，一大群( swarm的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They came to town in swarms. 他们蜂拥来到城里。
• On June the first there were swarms of children playing in the park. 6月1日那一天，这个公园里有一群群的孩子玩耍。

2 gorge   

n.咽喉，胃，暴食，山峡；v.塞饱，狼吞虎咽地吃

参考例句：

• East of the gorge leveled out.峡谷东面地势变得平坦起来。
• It made my gorge rise to hear the news.这消息令我作呕。

3 calf   

n.小牛，犊，幼仔，小牛皮

参考例句：

• The cow slinked its calf.那头母牛早产了一头小牛犊。
• The calf blared for its mother.牛犊哞哞地高声叫喊找妈妈。

4 epic   

n.史诗，叙事诗；adj.史诗般的，壮丽的

参考例句：

• I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗，而写了这个小故事。
• They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。

5 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

6 proliferates   

激增( proliferate的名词复数 )； （迅速）繁殖； 增生； 扩散

参考例句：

• The tumor proliferates, invades the uterine wall, and disseminates to remote organs. 肿瘤增殖，侵犯到子宫壁，并播散至远处的脏器。
• We should expect the services to be more interdependent as digitization proliferates. 因为数字化技术在扩散，我们殷切希望各军种更好地相互依赖。