英语听力：自然百科 野生动物回归莫桑比克

 It's early morning in South Africa's Kruger National Park. The morning stillness is broken by the quiet puma¹ helicopters. Their target is a herd² of elephants. Within minutes, an expert team is on the ground. These elephants haven't been harmed, just tranquilized. If all goes well, they will wake up safely in a new world, animal pioneers in a grand human experiment. Their destination is a stand 40 miles away just across the border in Mozambique. The chaos³ of Mozambique's wars and its poverty made the country a living hell for its wildlife as well as its citizens. During and after the war, poaching was out of control.

 

There's maybe a hundred elephants at the moment in the bulk program, maybe a couple of hundred of buffalo⁴ compared to these many thousands in the Kruger Park.

 

Repopulation will take years, so today, scientist is giving nature a push. It’s part of a radical⁵ new program to rehabilitate⁶ Mozambique and its wildlife.

 

The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, otherwise known as a Peace Park. The idea is to use this joint⁷ project to forge cross-border ties and share the wealth of tourism from the park. Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique will each contribute portions of the park. If the plan works out, everybody wins.

 

And while there is a wealth of unspoiled nature here, there is also danger, above and below ground. This landscape is littered with land mines. Around a million are still buried in Mozambique. Near the borders of the new Transnational Park, Mozambique is doing the tough work of digging up its past.

 

This was the area of confrontation⁸ between government and guerrilla. So, this was a typical protective mine belt like we found in a lot places in Mozambique, around bridges and any kinds of infrastructure⁹.

 

The Transfrontier Park has only recently been cleared of mines, but the wilderness¹⁰ still carries the scars of war. Mozambique's past was bloody¹¹, but the future looks bright. The elephants may not know it, but their pioneers in a Great African Experiment, walking toward their new home, they are part of a great change that is sweeping¹² this entire region.

 

1 puma   

美洲豹

参考例句：

• The police and the volunteers combed the forest for the lost puma from the zoo.警察和志愿者们在森林里到处寻找动物园迷失的美洲狮。
• A businessman on a fishing trip saw the puma up a tree.一位商人去钓鱼，看见那只美洲狮在树上。

2 herd   

n.兽群，牧群；vt.使集中，把…赶在一起

参考例句：

• She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
• He had no opinions of his own but simply follow the herd.他从无主见，只是人云亦云。

3 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。

4 buffalo   

n.(北美)野牛；(亚洲)水牛

参考例句：

• Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's. 亚洲水牛比美洲水牛温顺些。
• The boots are made of buffalo hide. 这双靴子是由水牛皮制成的。

5 radical   

n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的

参考例句：

• The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
• She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。

6 rehabilitate   

vt.改造(罪犯)，修复；vi.复兴，(罪犯)经受改造

参考例句：

• There was no money to rehabilitate the tower.没有资金修复那座塔。
• He used exercise programmes to rehabilitate the patients.他采用体育锻炼疗法使患者恢复健康。

7 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

8 confrontation   

n.对抗，对峙，冲突

参考例句：

• We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
• After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后，他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。

9 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。

10 wilderness   

n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等，荒漠

参考例句：

• She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
• Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。

11 bloody   

adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染

参考例句：

• He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
• He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。

12 sweeping   

adj.范围广大的，一扫无遗的

参考例句：

• The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
• Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗？