英语听力：自然百科 徒步南非之花园大道 The Garden Route—4

 Dias and his crew were the very first northern hemisphere sailors to make it around the Cape¹ of Good Hope, making Mossel Bay a start point for 500 years of European involvement in South Africa. Dias merely stopped here to replenish² supplies and met peacefully with a tiny local populous³. And today I’m being joined by a modern local, Willie Comane who’s agreed to accompany the crew and I as we step off the beaten trek⁴.  

 

Oh, so how much longer have we got this beautiful rally? 

 

It’s all about 80 to 210 km. 

 

Excellent, that’s good.

 

Having wondered this coast his entire life, Willie is fiercely aware of the delicate balance between the garden route eco system and man’s modern development. 

 

This is the clay, what you use, they use it when you’re walking in the sun and you put it on your face, 

 

Oh, that’s the protection.

 

Protection for any, sometimes for insects want to bite in you. It’s very soft, you can feel it, put a little bit of water, and then you put it on your face.

 

Yeah, natural sun protection.

 

Yes, we should take some with us.

 

Yes, look at here, this is a baboon⁵ grape, you see, only the baboons⁶ eat it, if you eat it, you’ll die. 

 

Baboon grape, really, poisonous, completely poisonous, but not for baboons.

 

Not for baboons, if you eat it, in 3 days, you will be sick, and in 3 days, and then you’ll die. 

 

You die, after 3 days, 

 

Yeah, yeah, after 3 days you die. 

 

Dear me.

 

Yes.

 

Ok, so to be avoided, but for baboons, it’s good.

 

For baboons, it’s good.

 

Tiny little grape. 

 

Yeah. 

 

These rocky wind battered⁷ cliffs where botanists⁸ flock to see fine bush or fynbos as it’s better known enough for coms, a vast collection of 9,000 plant species, 2/3 of which are unique to south Africa. Table Mountain alone harbors more plant species than the whole of the UK.

1 cape   

n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风

参考例句：

• I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
• She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。

2 replenish   

vt.补充；(把…)装满；(再)填满

参考例句：

• I always replenish my food supply before it is depleted.我总是在我的食物吃完之前加以补充。
• We have to import an extra 4 million tons of wheat to replenish our reserves.我们不得不额外进口四百万吨小麦以补充我们的储备。

3 populous   

adj.人口稠密的，人口众多的

参考例句：

• London is the most populous area of Britain.伦敦是英国人口最稠密的地区。
• China is the most populous developing country in the world.中国是世界上人口最多的发展中国家。

4 trek   

vi.作长途艰辛的旅行；n.长途艰苦的旅行

参考例句：

• We often go pony-trek in the summer.夏季我们经常骑马旅行。
• It took us the whole day to trek across the rocky terrain.我们花了一整天的时间艰难地穿过那片遍布岩石的地带。

5 baboon   

n.狒狒

参考例句：

• A baboon is a large monkey that lives in Africa.狒狒是一种生活在非洲的大猴子。
• As long as the baboon holds on to what it wants,it's trapped.只要狒狒紧抓住想要的东西不放手，它就会被牢牢困住。

6 baboons   

n.狒狒( baboon的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Baboons could break branches and leaders. 狒狒会折断侧枝和顶梢。 来自辞典例句
• And as nonprimates, they provoke fewer ethical and safety-related concerns than chimps or baboons. 而且作为非灵长类，就不会产生像用黑猩猩或狒狒那样的伦理和安全方面的顾虑。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命

7 battered   

adj.磨损的；v.连续猛击；磨损

参考例句：

• He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
• The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。

8 botanists   

n.植物学家，研究植物的人( botanist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Botanists had some difficulty categorizing the newly found plant. 植物学家们不大容易确定这种新发现的植物的种类。 来自辞典例句
• Botanists refer this flower to the rose family. 植物学家将这花归入蔷薇科。 来自辞典例句