英语新闻听写 肆意泛滥的小龙虾

It sounds like a bad monster movie plot: A 10-legged mutant creature that reproduces asexually, escapes from confinement¹ in Germany, and quietly begins a global invasion.

这听来像是一段邪恶的怪兽电影桥段：通过无性繁殖的10只腿变异物种从德国限域逃离并很快开始全球入侵。

Within 2 decades, clones of the voracious² animal spread through Europe and Africa, bringing devastation³ to ecosystems⁴ and threatening native species.

二十天内，这种贪婪动物的无性繁殖体就遍布了欧洲和非洲，给生态系统带来巨大破坏并威胁到了原生物种。

That appears to be the strange-but-true story of the marbled crayfish, an invasive freshwater species suspected to have been created through a reproductive accident in an aquarium⁵ around 1995.

这似乎就是关于龙纹敖虾奇怪而真实的故事，大家怀疑这种入侵性淡水生物是通过1995年水族馆中的一次繁殖事故而被创造了出来。

A new analysis of the crustacean's genome supports this unlikely origin and may help explain how the animal has subsequently spread and adapted to so many new environments.

对甲壳纲类基因组的一次新的分析支持了这一不可能的起源，这或许能够帮助解释后来这种生物是如何散布以及如何适应这么多的新环境的。

1 confinement   

n.幽禁，拘留，监禁；分娩；限制，局限

参考例句：

• He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.他度过了11年的单独监禁。
• The date for my wife's confinement was approaching closer and closer.妻子分娩的日子越来越近了。

2 voracious   

adj.狼吞虎咽的，贪婪的

参考例句：

• She's a voracious reader of all kinds of love stories.什么样的爱情故事她都百看不厌。
• Joseph Smith was a voracious book collector.约瑟夫·史密斯是个如饥似渴的藏书家。

3 devastation   

n.毁坏；荒废；极度震惊或悲伤

参考例句：

• The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
• There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 ecosystems   

n.生态系统( ecosystem的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There are highly sensitive and delicately balanced ecosystems in the forest. 森林里有高度敏感、灵敏平衡的各种生态系统。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Madagascar's ecosystems range from rainforest to semi-desert. 马达加斯加生态系统类型多样，从雨林到半荒漠等不一而足。 来自辞典例句

5 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。