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and very few people have had the
opportunity to see them ,
so every time the behaviours
are either confirming something
we suspect or showing us
a little something new or something
that we didn't think
they could quite do,
it's absolutely
wonderful to see,
you learn stuff every time
you watch something like this
The frozen seas in
and
- for some - are the most beautiful
of all ocean habitats
But it's dangerous to be
For the animals that have
to survive at the Poles
and our camera teams
that had to work there,
conditions can hardly be harsher
This is definitely not
as easy as looking for bears,
lt's about minus fifteen,
twenty
the
l'm going to go back
in
to try and film
bears hunting
l've got this little guy here,
comes with me on all my trips,
and if l put him down here
by the window facing out,
hopefully he'll bring in the real thing
So you do your stuff
the frozen sea ice,
which is a dangerous place to work
and finding a white bear
in this white wilderness requires
a great deal of patience and experience
we had this female
we'd been kind of watching her
for the last 3 or 4 hours,
doing a bit of hunting and
never very close,
and anyway she came
into a nice position
and then l took a few
steps towards her
She was a long way away but she
just completely reacted the wrong way
and l lost all her confidence
and now she's
and it's such a nice day for filming,
and l thought we had it and oh ...
is even more demanding than
Here you can be thousands
of miles from
and everything you need has
to come in by sea or air
We were fortunate to have
the support of Scientists
on the ltalian
who
a temporary research base
they set up miles out on the
edge of the frozen sea ice
The ltalian programme is involved
in a wide range of
but here they were concentrating
on the communities of animals
and plants that
live under the ice
By measuring the amount of light
that reaches
they hope to monitor
the frozen sea's productivity
- one vital way to
the health of
Their hole also provided
a unique opportunity for
lt's quite nice, really big
and very impressive when Mark's
kind of crawling
in amongst it trying to find
a space for a
Very nice, browns, greens,
all kinds of colours
There's even a
and briefly gave us a quick once over
But most of our work was
concentrated at the ice edge
We were there to film Emperor
to their breeding colonies
from feeding far out to sea
A remote camera under the ice
helped us predict exactly
when the
OK l think that's it, that's it
Back in
after weeks of patience,
to a
You have to work very carefully
to gain her confidence
lt's five o'clock in the morning,
l think we just cracked it,
we had a female there with
she did quite a lot of
知识点
重点词汇
knots ['nɒts] n. 结;结头;要点(knot的复数) v. 打结;使纠结(knot的第三人称单数) { :5061}
allan ['ælən] n. 艾伦(男子名,等于Alan) { :5840}
kindly [ˈkaɪndli] adv. 亲切地;温和地;仁慈地 adj. 亲切的;和蔼的;体贴的;爽快的 { :5999}
gauge [ɡeɪdʒ] n. 计量器;标准尺寸;容量规格 vt. 测量;估计;给…定规格 {cet4 cet6 ky toefl ielts gre :6046}
arctic ['ɑ:ktɪk] n. 北极圈;御寒防水套鞋 n. (Arctic)人名;(英)阿克蒂克 adj. 北极的;极寒的 {gk cet6 toefl ielts gre :6116}
platelets ['pleɪtlɪts] n. [组织] 血小板;片晶;红小板(platelet的复数) { :6327}
doug [daug] n. 道格 { :6777}
polar [ˈpəʊlə(r)] n. 极面;极线 adj. 极地的;两极的;正好相反的 n. (Polar)人名;(德、西)波拉尔 {cet6 ky toefl ielts gre :6795}
civilisation [sɪvɪlaɪ'zeɪʃən] n. (英)文明(等于civilization) { :7162}
algae [ˈældʒi:] n. [植] 藻类;[植] 海藻 {toefl :8285}
pissed [pɪst] adj. 愤怒的;喝醉的 v. 撒尿;下大雨(piss的过去分词) { :8297}
underwater [ˌʌndəˈwɔ:tə(r)] n. 水下 adj. 在水中的;水面下的 adv. 在水下 {toefl :9111}
难点词汇
cub [kʌb] n. 幼兽;不懂规矩的年轻人 vi. 生育幼兽 {gre :10029}
penguins [ˈpeŋɡwinz] n. [鸟] 企鹅(penguin的复数) { :10209}
antarctic [ænt'ɑ:ktik] adj.南极的, 南极地带的 {gk cet6 ielts gre :10763}
ferocious [fəˈrəʊʃəs] adj. 残忍的;惊人的 {toefl ielts gre :11205}
pouncing ['paʊnsɪŋ] v. 突然袭击( pounce的现在分词 ); 猛扑; 一眼看出; 抓住机会(进行抨击) { :11739}
Antarctica [æn'tɑ:ktɪkə] n. 南极洲 {gk toefl :13217}
lulled [ ] vt. 使平静;使安静;哄骗 vi. 平息;减弱;停止 n. 间歇;暂停;暂时平静 n. (Lull)人名;(英)勒尔 { :13314}
golly [ˈgɒli] n. 神;(澳)唾沫;怪人(等于golliwog) n. (Golly)人名;(法)戈利 vt. (澳)吐痰 int. 天哪!(表示惊奇、困惑、高兴等,God的委婉语) vi. (澳)吐痰 { :21391}
LF [ ] [计] 换行, 低频 [医] 絮凝单位, 絮凝限度 { :30107}
生僻词
Svalbard ['svɑ:lbɑ:r] 斯瓦尔巴特群岛[挪威]
Weddell [ˈwedəl] Sea威德尔海(南极洲的边缘海,在南极半岛同科茨地之间)
词组
a cub [ ] [网络] 一只小狮子
Antarctic Ocean [ ] 南冰洋
emperor penguin [ˈempərə ˈpeŋɡwin] [网络] 皇帝企鹅;帝王企鹅;皇企鹅
light sensor [ ] un. 光传感器;光敏元件;光敏感器 [网络] 智慧光源感应侦测;光线传感器;光线感应器
piss ... off [ ] na. 惹恼;滚开 [网络] 激怒;走开;走开,滚蛋
piss off [pis ɔf] na. 惹恼;滚开 [网络] 激怒;走开;走开,滚蛋
polar bear [ˈpəulə bɛə] n. 北极熊;白熊 [网络] 冬泳者;极地熊;北极熊篇
polar bears [ ] na. 北极熊 [网络] 北极熊的采血点;爱上北极熊;梁伟灏
the antarctic [æn'tɑ:ktɪk] n. 南极地区 [网络] 南极洲;南极区;北极地区
the antarctic ocean [ ] na. 南冰洋 [网络] 南极洋
the Arctic [ ] [网络] 北极;北极地区;北极圈
the hut [ ] [网络] 小屋;避幕;小茅屋
Weddell seal [ ] [网络] 威德尔海豹;威德海豹;威斗海豹
wind chill [ˈwɪnd tʃɪl] n. 风寒(与风速相关的冷却作用) [网络] 暴风惊魂夜;风杀;风寒指数
单词释义末尾数字为词频顺序
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