英语听力：自然百科 大堡礁 堡礁内外(19)

This is no mindless killer¹, this shark is smart.

没有愚笨无知的杀手，这些鲨鱼非常聪明。

It pitches up at the peak of the turtle nesting season and simply waits for the tide to deliver its food.

它在海龟的繁殖高峰大吃了一顿,只是等待潮水给它带来食物。

Ah, look at that.

看那个。

So distinctive,right under the boat.

非常特别，正好在船的下面。

Tigers have been found with all matter of interesting things in their stomachs and, as an opportunistic predator,she's come in and had a look at the boat a little look at me.

人们在虎鲨的胃里发现了几乎每样有趣的东西，作为一个投机取巧的捕食者，它游过来，看了一眼船又看了一眼我。

Just a nudge of the boat. She's using the nose,all those senses packed into the nose, to try and figure out what we are and what I am.

它用它的鼻子轻推了一下船它所有的感觉都集中在鼻子上，来分辨出 我们是什么，我是谁。

And now she's heading back to the carcass.

现在它掉头回到了海龟尸体。

I hope.

我认为是这样的。

Watch this bite.

看看这个咬伤。

Good grief! What she is doing now is sawing using the weight of her body.

真悲惨！看它现在在做的，它利用它身体的锯开海龟。

These are huge, bulky animals and you get a lot of torsion with that weight.

这些庞大的动物，字利用体重它获得了很多的扭曲力。

And with that torsion she'll clamp the jaws² on to the flipper³ or head and just rip from side to side and the mechanical action and the cutting action of the teeth will tear lumps of flesh off.

用巨大的扭曲力，它会用下巴咬住海龟的鳍状肢或者头从一边撕裂到另一边，牙齿撕咬的力和切断的力能把肉撕成碎块。

Vibrations⁴ from the commotion⁵ and the odour of mashed⁶ turtle flesh are carried on the currents, attracting more sharks to the feast.

来自这场骚乱的震动和海龟肉块的味道被水流带走，吸引了更多鲨鱼参与这一宴会。

But, this is no feeding frenzy⁷.

但是这只没有捕食热情。

Sharks of this size could do each other real damage,so instead they take it in turns,with smaller sharks deferring⁸ to the larger ones.

这种大小的鲨鱼互相之间能造成实质的伤害，所以它们要轮流吃东西，小鲨鱼要顺从大鲨鱼。

1 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

2 jaws   

n.口部；嘴

参考例句：

• The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。
• The scored jaws of a vise help it bite the work. 台钳上有刻痕的虎钳牙帮助它紧咬住工件。

3 flipper   

n. 鳍状肢，潜水用橡皮制鳍状肢

参考例句：

• The seal's flipper is homologous with the human arm. 海豹的鳍肢与人类的手臂同源。
• It's almost like a flipper action as she kicks down. 她向下踢腿时有鱼鳍的效果。

4 vibrations   

n.摆动( vibration的名词复数 )；震动；感受；（偏离平衡位置的）一次性往复振动

参考例句：

• We could feel the vibrations from the trucks passing outside. 我们可以感到外面卡车经过时的颤动。
• I am drawn to that girl; I get good vibrations from her. 我被那女孩吸引住了，她使我产生良好的感觉。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 commotion   

n.骚动，动乱

参考例句：

• They made a commotion by yelling at each other in the theatre.他们在剧院里相互争吵，引起了一阵骚乱。
• Suddenly the whole street was in commotion.突然间，整条街道变得一片混乱。

6 mashed   

a.捣烂的

参考例句：

• two scoops of mashed potato 两勺土豆泥
• Just one scoop of mashed potato for me, please. 请给我盛一勺土豆泥。

7 frenzy   

n.疯狂，狂热，极度的激动

参考例句：

• He was able to work the young students up into a frenzy.他能激起青年学生的狂热。
• They were singing in a frenzy of joy.他们欣喜若狂地高声歌唱。

8 deferring   

v.拖延，延缓，推迟( defer的现在分词 )；服从某人的意愿，遵从

参考例句：

• Recently, the Supreme Court has focused on an additional reason for deferring to administrative agencies. 最近，最高法院强调了尊重行政机构的另一种理由。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• Think of it as deferring part of the compiler's job to runtime. 可以认为这是将编译器的部分工作延迟到了运行时。 来自互联网