英语新闻听写 零食如何成为杀害红毛猩猩的凶手

About 87 percent of the world's orangutans live on Borneo, but their numbers have fallen dramatically over the past two decades.

世界上约87%的红毛猩猩生活在婆罗洲，但是在过去二十年的时间里，他们的数量急剧下降。

This is due to the systematic¹ destruction of the rainforest for a cheap, mass-produced commodity few consumers have even heard of: palm oil.

这是因为热带雨林遭到蓄意破坏，只为得到一种大批生产的廉价商品，甚至只有为数不多的人听说过这种商品名字：棕榈油。

About half of the packaged items in our grocery stores contain palm oil.

食品商店中约有一半的包装商品都含有棕榈油。

To produce the oil, large portions of rainforest in Indonesia and Malaysia are cleared out every year.

为了生产这种油，每年在印度尼西亚和马拉西亚都有大面积的雨林遭到清除。

This deforestation destroys fragile, biodiverse habitats on which animals such as orangutans — but also rhinos², tigers and elephants — depend.

这种森林砍伐破坏了脆弱的生物多样化栖息地，而这些栖息地是红毛猩猩、犀牛、老虎、大象等动物生活的地方。

1 systematic   

adj.有系统的，有计划的，有方法的

参考例句：

• The way he works isn't very systematic.他的工作不是很有条理。
• The teacher made a systematic work of teaching.这个教师进行系统的教学工作。

2 rhinos   

n.犀牛（rhino的复数形式）

参考例句：

• There are many reports of people taming and even training Indian rhinos. 有许多关于人们驯养甚至训练印度犀牛的记载。 来自辞典例句
• The rhinos had fed during the night in the rice fields of these villagers. 犀牛夜里在这些村民的庄稼地里也已吃饱了。 来自辞典例句