卫报社论关注封锁政策下的野生动物

1、卫报社论：关注封锁政策下的野生动物At London zoo, the giraffes, which are 1. _(easy) visible from the street, had regular visitors even during lockdown. Like most other attractions that rely on tourists for income, zoos were forced to shut owing to the coronavirus face a financially fraught future. But the risks to c

2、aptive animals and their keepers are nothing to those faced by wild creatures and the people who guard them. Already under huge 2. _(press) from multiple sources, international conservation efforts have been thrown into fresh chaos.South Africa reported a 53% drop in the number of rhinos killed by p

3、oachers, 3. _(compare) with the first six months of last year (from 316 in 2019, to 166). The sudden dramatic fall in air pollution and traffic (road, sea and air) brought rapid but short-lived benefits for many of the planets non-human inhabitants. But there have also been disasters. Last week in U

4、ganda, a landmark ruling saw a poacher, Felix Byamukama, 4. _(sentence) to six years in jail after he admitted killing a silverback mountain gorilla called Rafiki. In May and June, there 5. _(be) a mysterious die-off of around 350 elephants in Botswana, and the killing of six elephants in one day in

5、 Ethiopia by poachers who6. _(steal) their tusks. Demand in countries including China and Vietnam for animal parts such as rhino horn, 7. _is used in traditional medicines, along with ivory (which is illegal in China) and pangolin meat, has long been one of the drives of wildlife trafficking 非法交易. 8

6、. _there are alternative sources of income for the people who live near them, the likelihood(可能性) is that these animals and others will continue to be hunted for meat or cash, or crowded out of shrinking habitats by farmers, miners and loggers. While the environmental benefits of a permanent reducti

7、on in long-distance air travel are indisputable(不容置疑的), it also 9. _(threat) the viability of wildlife tourism. 10. _Covid-19 does not affect animals and ecosystems in the way that it affects humans, it is putting them at risk.Important Vocabulary visible可见的 regular 有规律，规则的lockdown/lkdan/n. 一级防范禁闭（期

8、）attraction/trkn/n. 吸引，吸引力；引力；吸引人的事物rely on依靠，依赖owing to由于，因为financially adv. 财政上；金融上fraught充满的；焦虑的，担心的；注定导致的；造成紧张的；受忧虑影响的captive adj. 被俘虏的；被迷住的guard vt. 保卫；监视multiple/mltpl/ n. 倍数；电 并联adj. 多重的；多样的；许多的source来源；水源；原始资料international adj. 国际的；国际通用的conservation/knsrven/ n. 保存，保持；保护throw threw thrown vt.

9、 投；抛；掷；举行（派对）chaos/kes/ n. 混沌，混乱poacher/potr/ n. 偷猎者；侵入者dramatic/drmtk/ adj. 戏剧的；急剧的rapid/rpd/n. 急流；高速交通工具，高速交通网 adj. 迅速的，急促的benefit/benft/ n. 利益，好处；救济金inhabitant/nhbtnt/ n. 居民；居住者disaster/dzstr/ n. 灾难，灾祸；不幸landmark/lndmrk/ n. 航陆标；地标；界标；里程碑sentence/sentns/ n. 语计 句子，命题；宣判，判决vt. 判决，宣判in jail在监狱；在狱中服刑；

10、被封锁了admit doing承认做过；准许做silver/slvr/ n. 银；银器；银币mysterious/mstris/ adj. 神秘的；不可思议的；难解的die-off绝种tusk/tsk/ n. 长牙；尖头，尖形物drive（人的）强烈欲望；魄力，内驱力；（有组织的）活动；快车道；猛抽；（对牲口的）驱赶alternative/ltrntv/n. 二中择一；供替代的选择adj. 供选择的；交替的source/srs/n. 来源；水源；原始资料likelihood/laklihd/n. 可能性，可能be hunted for 为狩猎cash/k/n. 现款，现金shrink/rk/

11、v. （使）缩小，（使）收缩；（尤指因恐惧而）退缩，畏缩，回避habitat/hbtt/ n. 生态 栖息地，产地miner/manr/ n. 矿工；开矿机logger/lr/ n. （美）樵夫，伐木工permanent/prmnnt/ adj. 永久的，永恒的；不变的reduction/rdkn/ n. 减少；下降；缩小viability/vablti/n. 生存能力，发育能力；可行性at risk处于危险中ecosystem/ikosstm/ n. 生态系统affect vt. 影响；感染；感动；假装1. easily 2. pressure 3. compared 4. sentence

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