雅思聽力對(duì)話：鳥類的季節(jié)性遷徙
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聽力原文及翻譯
Scientists believe that a majority of the Earth's bird population migrate in some fashion or other. Some travel seasonally for relatively short distances, such as birds that move from their winter habitats in lowlands to mountaintops for the summers. Others, like the Arctic tern, travel more than 25,000 miles seasonally between the northern and southern poles.
科學(xué)家認(rèn)為，地球上大多數(shù)鳥類都會(huì)以某種方式遷徙。有些鳥類會(huì)季節(jié)性遷徙，遷徙距離相對(duì)較短，比如鳥類會(huì)從低地的冬季棲息地遷徙到山頂過夏。其他鳥類，如北極燕鷗，則會(huì)在北極和南極之間季節(jié)性遷徙超過 25,000 英里。
Bird migration has been studied over many centuries through a variety of observations, but until relatively recently, where birds went in the winter was considered something of a mystery. The lack of modern science and technology led to many theories that we now recognise as erroneous and even somewhat amusing. Take hibernation theory, for example.
幾個(gè)世紀(jì)以來，人們通過各種觀察研究了鳥類遷徙，但直到最近，鳥類在冬天去哪里還被認(rèn)為是一個(gè)謎。由于缺乏現(xiàn)代科學(xué)技術(shù)，許多理論被提出，我們現(xiàn)在認(rèn)為這些理論是錯(cuò)誤的，甚至有些可笑。以冬眠理論為例。
2000 years ago, it was commonly believed that when birds left an area, they went underwater to hibernate in the seas and oceans. Another theory for their regular appearance and disappearance of birds was that they spent winter hidden in mud till the weather changed and food became abundant again.
2000 年前，人們普遍認(rèn)為，當(dāng)鳥類離開某個(gè)地區(qū)時(shí)，它們會(huì)潛入水下，在海洋中冬眠。另一種關(guān)于鳥類經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)和消失的理論是，它們?cè)诙祀[藏在泥漿中，直到天氣轉(zhuǎn)變，食物再次充足。
The theory that some birds hibernate persisted until experiments were done on caged birds in the 1940s, which demonstrated that birds have no hibernation instinct. One of the earliest naturalists and philosophers from ancient Greece was Aristotle, who was the first writer to discuss the disappearance and reappearance of some bird species at certain times of year.
有些鳥類會(huì)冬眠的理論一直持續(xù)到 20 世紀(jì) 40 年代，有人對(duì)籠養(yǎng)鳥類進(jìn)行了實(shí)驗(yàn)，結(jié)果證明鳥類沒有冬眠本能。亞里士多德是古希臘最早的博物學(xué)家和哲學(xué)家之一，他是第一位討論某些鳥類在一年中的某些時(shí)間消失和重新出現(xiàn)的作家。
He developed the theory of transmutation, the seasonal change of one species into another. By observing redstarts and robins, he observed that in the autumn, small birds called redstarts began to lose their feathers, which convinced Aristotle that they changed into robins for the winter and back into redstarts in the summer.
他發(fā)展了轉(zhuǎn)變理論，即一個(gè)物種變成另一個(gè)物種的季節(jié)性變化。通過觀察紅尾鴝和知更鳥，他發(fā)現(xiàn)秋天，被稱為紅尾鴝的小鳥開始脫落羽毛，這讓亞里士多德相信它們?cè)诙熳兂闪酥B，在夏天又變成了紅尾鴝。
These assumptions are understandable, given that this pair of species are similar in shape, but are a classic example of an incorrect interpretation based on correct observations. The most bizarre theory was put forward by an English amateur scientist, Charles Morton, in the 17th century.
鑒于這對(duì)物種的形狀相似，這些假設(shè)是可以理解的，但這是基于正確觀察而進(jìn)行錯(cuò)誤解釋的典型例子。最奇怪的理論是由 17 世紀(jì)的英國(guó)業(yè)余科學(xué)家查爾斯·莫頓提出的。
He wrote a surprisingly well-regarded paper claiming that birds migrate to the moon and back every year. He came to this conclusion as the only logical explanation for the total disappearance of some species.
他寫了一篇出人意料地受到好評(píng)的論文，聲稱鳥類每年都會(huì)遷徙到月球并返回。他認(rèn)為這個(gè)結(jié)論是某些物種徹底消失的唯一合理解釋。
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