英语听力：自然百科 秋日黄石公园 Autumn—4

 But as many are preparing to get out, some have no choice but to stay. In the remote northeast of the Yellowstone wilderness¹, are the 

 

Beartooth Mountains. 

Here, surviving about 8,000 feet, a tree now welcomes the change of / season, the white-bark pine. 

 

All summer these trees have been soaking up the energy of the sun, preparing for this moment. 

Now they offer the animals of Yellowstone a bumper² crop of pine cones³. The white-bark pine is gambling⁴ on the fact that animals now need all the food they can get before winter, and is hoping it can entice⁵ them to spread its seeds far and wide across Yellowstone. So inside the cones, it has put tasty nutritious⁶ pine nuts 

A pine squirrel.

It snacks on a few of the nuts to keep going, and then buries them one by one in a sheltered hollow beside the tree. If it hides them well and packs them carefully, they should last through the winter.

 

 

1 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。

2 bumper   

n.(汽车上的)保险杠；adj.特大的，丰盛的

参考例句：

• The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.这幅画描绘了丰收的景象。
• This year we have a bumper harvest in grain.今年我们谷物丰收。

3 cones   

n.（人眼）圆锥细胞；圆锥体( cone的名词复数 )；球果；圆锥形东西；（盛冰淇淋的）锥形蛋卷筒

参考例句：

• In the pines squirrels commonly chew off and drop entire cones. 松树上的松鼠通常咬掉和弄落整个球果。 来自辞典例句
• Many children would rather eat ice cream from cones than from dishes. 许多小孩喜欢吃蛋卷冰淇淋胜过盘装冰淇淋。 来自辞典例句

4 gambling   

n.赌博；投机

参考例句：

• They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
• The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。

5 entice   

v.诱骗，引诱，怂恿

参考例句：

• Nothing will entice the children from television.没有任何东西能把孩子们从电视机前诱开。
• I don't see why the English should want to entice us away from our native land.我不明白，为什英国人要引诱我们离开自己的国土。

6 nutritious   

adj.有营养的，营养价值高的

参考例句：

• Fresh vegetables are very nutritious.新鲜蔬菜富于营养。
• Hummingbirds have discovered that nectar and pollen are very nutritious.蜂鸟发现花蜜和花粉是很有营养的。