2018年商务英语初级口语测试：小海龟的求生本能

Each one, just seven centimetres long, must make a hundred-metre sprint down the beach.

From the moment they hatch,

they’re driven by an instinctive urge to run to the sea.

Few creatures start life with the odds for success so heavily stacked against them.

Yellow-billed kites.

Pied crows.

But so many of these hatchlings appear together,

that predators can’t catch them all.

但他们得拿出百米冲刺的速度离开沙滩

从他们孵化出来那一刻

就受着本能的驱使爬向大海

很少有生物刚出生时

就面临如此多的危险挣扎求生

黄嘴黑鸢

非洲白颈鸦

但是众多刚孵化的小海龟一起出现

捕食者也不能将他们全部抓光

instinctive [in’stiŋktiv]adj. 本能的，天性的，直觉的

keen [ki:n]adj. 锋利的，敏锐的，强烈的，精明的，热衷的