英语听力：自然百科 徒步南非之花园大道 The Garden Route—11

 The dunes¹ are so big, up to 120 meters in fact, that they are permanent structures. The wind can do little to alter their size and shape. And like the cave yesterday, they contain some secrets. Long after the Homo sapiens first introduced shellfish into their diet, this plentiful² coast became the preserve of Southern Africa's true indigenous³ populartion, known as the San. For at least 10,000 years, they enjoyed an uninterrupted existence here, free from other tribes and races, and they left behind piles and piles of evidence of their day-to-day activities.

 

-So it's a can of shells, really? A little mountain of shells. Loads of thousands of thousands.

-There is a madam*.

-A madam.

-Yes, where the Sans collected their shells on the sea and came here.

-The San people?

-The San people, yes. They collected these and here they prepared to make a San food. It's like a kitchen today.

-You see, I've been here a couple of times before into these dunes, and I thought the sea had brought these shells here over and over years, but it was the San people.

-Yes. That is the San people.

 

 

Today, Willie can thank the San for the wonderful click sounds of his language, a feature that crosses several other South African languages acquire from their San predecessors⁴.

-And what about all the little stones around here?

-Yeah. They were the tools they used...

-These were tools?

-Yes.

-And they're just lying here in the dunes thousands of thousand years old?

-Yes.

-OK.

How many people, I wonder, must pass by beach-side midden without even a glance? Willie has helped bring this coast to live to me, and simply there's no way that without him beyond the lookout⁵ for a certain type of footprint.

-Here is the paw of the leopard⁶.

-A leopard? This is, really? You're joking.

-No, i'm not joking.

 

This post was generated by put listening repetition system,  Check the original dictation thread!

1 dunes   

沙丘( dune的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The boy galloped over the dunes barefoot. 那男孩光着脚在沙丘间飞跑。
• Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat. 将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。

2 plentiful   

adj.富裕的，丰富的

参考例句：

• Their family has a plentiful harvest this year.他们家今年又丰收了。
• Rainfall is plentiful in the area.这个地区雨量充足。

3 indigenous   

adj.土产的，土生土长的，本地的

参考例句：

• Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
• Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。

4 predecessors   

n.前任( predecessor的名词复数 )；前辈；（被取代的）原有事物；前身

参考例句：

• The new government set about dismantling their predecessors' legislation. 新政府正着手废除其前任所制定的法律。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Will new plan be any more acceptable than its predecessors? 新计划比原先的计划更能令人满意吗？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 lookout   

n.注意，前途，瞭望台

参考例句：

• You can see everything around from the lookout.从了望台上你可以看清周围的一切。
• It's a bad lookout for the company if interest rates don't come down.如果利率降不下来，公司的前景可就不妙了。

6 leopard   

n.豹

参考例句：

• I saw a man in a leopard skin yesterday.我昨天看见一个穿着豹皮的男人。
• The leopard's skin is marked with black spots.豹皮上有黑色斑点。