雅思四六级双语阅读素材:Last Ice / 词汇量:5000级别

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Last Ice.第一部门

Later this century, forecasterssay, the sea ice that covers most of the Arcticwill be reduced to a strip above Greenland and Canada. It will become a refuge for polar bears and other wild creatures as they fight to survive.

本世纪末，有人展望，北极圈冰海財神娛樂城,将会缩减至格陵兰岛和加拿大间的带状地带，这将成为北极熊及其他野活泼物钻营保存的保护所。

forecasters：预告员 the Arctic：北极

strip：带状地带 refuge：保护所

polar bear：北极熊

We see evidence of the kill first: a shockinglybroad spread ofscarlet, probably the blood of a ringed seal, on snow-covered sea ice. Then the polar bear appears. She's big, maybe 500 pounds, trailed by a single cub. They've just jumped into a lead—a long fissure of open water in the frozen sea.

咱们起首看到了杀害的证据，大片猩红在冰原中散开，也许是一只贝加尔海报的鲜血，撒在铺满冰海的雪地上。这时辰北极熊呈现了，它可能有500磅重，跟从着一只幼崽. 它们随后跳入冰面上一条狭长裂缝下的水中。

shockingly: 骇人地 scarlet: 猩赤色

ringed seal：贝加尔海豹；trail：跟从

cub：幼崽 fissure：裂隙

In seconds they're out of the water again, running across the ice, spookedby the approach of our helicopter. Prolonged running can harm polar bears: Fat and fur insulate them so well they risk overheating. Franois Létourneau-Cloutier, our 33-year-old Québécois pilot, takes us higher, and the mother and cub slow to an amble.

半晌以后，它们再次从水中呈现，被咱们直升机的忽然呈现吓到，向着冰面狞恶。长时候奔驰会危险到北极熊 ：外相和脂肪的绝缘会让它们有过热的危害。Franois Létourneau-Cloutier，咱们33岁的 魁北克飞翔员，让直升机晋升了高度，这时候，熊妈和它的幼崽才起头放慢了脚步。

spooked：打单 helicopter：直升机

amble：缓行；insulate：绝缘；prolong：耽误

After following them for several minutes, Létourneau-Cloutier sets the helicopter gentlyonto the ice a few hundred feet away and cuts the engine. The mother rises on her hindlegs, assessing our 35-foot-long fpk10,lying machine with the unruffledgaze of the Arctic's top predator; the cub remains on all fours behind her. For a few timeless moments we savor the scene—bears against an otherwise empty i妹妹ensity of snow and ice, countless shallow pools of meltwater reflecting a high su妹妹er sun ringed by faint halosof red and blue.

跟从它们几分钟以后，Létourneau-Cloutier将直升机轻轻地停在了间隔它们几百英尺的处所，然后封闭了引擎。熊妈抬起了它的后爪，用北极顶级捕食者狂妄的目光端详着这35英尺长的飞翔机器。幼崽依然躲在它暗地里。在这永久的时刻，咱们咀嚼着这个画面—在这广袤的冰雪大地上，除熊之外，只有没有数由融冰化成的池塘，反射出一轮晕染出红蓝色的高阳。

gently：和顺地；hind：后（腿）assess：端详

unruffled：镇定；gaze：谛视；

predator：捕食者；savor：赏识；

i妹妹ensity：广袤；meltwater：冰融水

faint：模胡；halo：光晕

本文选自《国度地舆杂志》