2018年商务英语初级口语测试：大草原造就的最强物种

Three days of battle is at an end.

The victor has won the right to the females.

The process to replace what the drought took away has begun.

Soon, the elephants will be at full strength again.

Every day, the animals of Eastern Africa gamble with their lives,

but despite the continual changes

but there’s nowhere else that provides such rich opportunities for those

that are prepared to take them.

And in the end, it was these ever-changing savannahs

that produced the most adaptable species of all...

ourselves.

三天的决斗已经接近尾声

胜利者赢得了与母象的交配权

干旱造成的创伤正开始一点点复原

很快象群又能充满活力了

每天生活在东非草原上的动物们

都在用生命做赌注

尽管生存环境变化莫测

它们却凭借着卓绝的适应力

一次又一次地幸存下来

东非或许环境恶劣

但也只有这里能为那些顽强的生命

提供千锤百炼的机会

最终正是这片变化莫测的草原

造就了适应力最强的物种

人类

重点单词 关闭全部解释

diversity [dai’və:siti]n. 差异，多样性，分集

adaptability [ə,dæptə’biləti]n. 适应性;可变性;适合性

gamble [’gæmbl]v. 赌博，投机，孤注一掷

n. 赌博，冒险

adaptable [ə’dæptəbl]adj. 能适应的，适应性强的，可改编的

drought [draut]n. 干旱

replace [ri(:)’pleis]vt.取代，更换，将物品放回原处

victor [’viktə]n. 胜利者 Victor: 维克托(男子名)

continual [kən’tinjuəl]adj. 不断的，频繁的

extraordinary [iks’trɔ:dnri]adj. 非凡的，特别的，特派的

species [’spi:ʃiz]n. (单复同)物种，种类