BBC地平线系列之《为何讲话》第29集:绝望的雌鸟
日期:2014-12-22 18:49

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Ofer hoped that the females would find the male's call attractive enough
奥弗希望雌鸟能被雄鸟的叫声吸引
that they would mate and create the next generation.
这样它们就会结合生子
In the beginning, the first problem that we had is
刚开始 我们面临的第一个问题是
that the females were not very interested in the isolate male.
雌鸟对被隔离过的雄鸟完全不感兴趣
When he start singing his isolate unstructured song,
雄鸟鸣唱自己独创的无序歌曲时
they say "Yuk!" and they wouldn't go with him.
雌鸟们非常反感 不予理睬
But, we didn't let go and we kept going like that with a few tries
但我们并没有放弃 又尝试了几次
And in the end one female became desperate enough
最终 有一只雌鸟绝望了
and mated with the isolate founder,
和那只雄鸟结合了
and then we had baby birds that imitated their father.
然后它们有了孩子 孩子开始模仿父亲
The young birds instinctively copied their father's song
幼鸟本能地模仿其父亲的叫声
despite its unstructured unattractive sound.
即使这声音无序又难听
And interestingly enough,
非常有趣的是
in isolate song we see song that may be more prolonged.
独创的鸣叫每个音节会拖得长一些
We can see syllable that go like "Waaaaah" Like that
发出的音节就像 "喂"
instead of "Choob-chab-choob."
而不是"吱吱吱"
And this is something that they were still imitating
而幼鸟们仍在模仿这样的声音
so they were listening to that tutor that was singing abnormal song
它们听到"老师"吟唱这种非正常歌曲
and they imitated his abnormal song,
就模仿这种非正常歌曲
and so did their children.
它们的孩子也是如此

重点解释

the females were not very interested in the isolate male.雌鸟对被隔离过的雄鸟完全不感兴趣

interest in对 ... 有兴趣

I'm really interested in the deep ocean.

我对深海有着浓厚的兴趣。

Are you interested in taking other public board seats?

你有意接受其他上市公司的董事会席位吗?

And in the end one female became desperate enough and mated with the isolate founder,最终 ,有一只雌鸟绝望了和那只雄鸟结合了

in the end终于; 最后

In the end they reached a place of safety.

他们终于到达了一个安全的地方。

Peter and Tom finally made up in the end.

彼特和汤姆最后和解了。

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