英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-12 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—23

 This is good honey. It's very good honey. Yeah, it's very good honey. And this is the honey from the Refuday Tegmoden. 

Tegmoden,... is not very far, is it?  Emnh, now the distance between the hive that produce this and the hive that produce that, how far? 

A mile and a half, probably outside. 

How is it that you can get such a different variety of honey though you are in such a small short distance? 

You know Bernario especially does the fantastic carey of flary blossom¹ trees. 

Of course, I couldn't pass off the chance of showing off my own produce. 

Well, do you enjoy honey, man? 

This is from bucking².., deepest, well not deepest, but seems to be 25 really. I love the label. It is like it should be in the warning. 

No, it looks great.

It's a couple years old. And he's getting mature. 

Mature? Is it getting best in the job? 

....

Oh, that runs a good bill.

Is it?

Yeah, it runs good. 

Really lovely. 

I think Steve probably being generous. This factor the bees are doing well in cities could cause bee ..what's happening in the country side. And I'd like to find out a bit more how that habitat is changing. 

Doctor Deep Sinor Prophy has been studying the changes in the countryside. 

To demonstrate what she has found, she wants to give me a bird's eye view. So we fly to the mix-wood lands here. Would you think it will be a pretty nice place? This side would storicly would be Woodland. Very little has changed unless than 5% of this side overtime³. 

Yet, there is a plenty 5% decline⁴ in species⁵ richness that has been reported. 

1 blossom   

n.花，开花；vi.开花，发展

参考例句：

• The blossom on the trees looks lovely in springtime.春天树上的花很漂亮。
• Let a hundred flowers blossom,let a hundred schools of thought contend.百花齐放，百家争鸣。

2 bucking   

v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的现在分词 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• a bucking bronco in the rodeo 牛仔竞技表演中一匹弓背跳跃的野马
• That means we'll be bucking grain bags, bustin's gut. 那就是说咱们要背这一袋袋的谷子，得把五脏都累坏。 来自辞典例句

3 overtime   

adj.超时的，加班的；adv.加班地

参考例句：

• They are working overtime to finish the work.为了完成任务他们正在加班加点地工作。
• He was paid for the overtime he worked.他领到了加班费。

4 decline   

n.衰微，跌落，下降；vt.使降低，婉谢；vi.下降，衰落，偏斜

参考例句：

• I must decline to show favour to any of the candidates.我必须拒绝偏袒任何一位候选人。
• The birthrate is on the decline.出生率在下降。

5 species   

n.物种，种群

参考例句：

• Are we the only thinking species in the whole of creation?我们是万物中惟一有思想的物种吗？
• This species of bird now exists only in Africa.这种鸟现在只存在于非洲。