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來自英語快樂嗑English
英漢對照課文文本
A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE
非洲野生動物研究者
It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Africa. Following Jane's way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest. Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans. Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day. This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before. Everybody sits and waits in the shade of the trees while the family begins to wake up and move off. Then we follow as they wander into the forest. Most of the time, chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family. Jane warns us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right. However, the evening makes it all worthwhile. We watch the mother chimp and her babies play in the tree. Then we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night. We realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human family.
清晨5點45分，太陽剛從東非的貢貝國家公園的上空升起。我們一行人準備按照簡研究黑猩猩的方法去森林裡拜訪它們。簡研究這些黑猩猩家族已經很多年了，她幫助人們瞭解了黑猩猩跟人類的行為是多麼的相似。我們當天的首項任務就是觀察黑猩猩一家是如何醒來的。這意味著我們要返回前一天晚上我們離開時黑猩猩一家睡覺的大樹旁。大家坐在樹蔭下等待著，這時候猩猩們睡醒了，準備離開。在大部分的時間裡，黑猩猩或互相餵食，或彼此擦身，這在它們家族裡是表達愛的方式。簡預先提醒我們，到下午的時候我們就會又髒又累。她說對了，但是到傍晚的時分我們就覺得這一切都是值得的。我們看到黑猩猩媽媽跟它們的幼子們在樹上玩耍，後來看見他們一起回窩睡覺了。我們明白了猩猩家族成員之間的聯繫像人類家庭一樣緊密。
Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour. She spent years observing and recording their daily activities. Since her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment. However, this was not easy. When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest. Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she allowed to begin her project. Her work changed the way people think about chimps. For example, one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat. Until then everyone had thought chimps ate only fruit and nuts. She actually observed chimps as a group hunting a monkey and then eating it. She also discovered how chimps communicate with each other, and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system.
在簡之前沒有人全面瞭解黑猩猩的行為。她花了多年的時間來參觀記錄黑猩猩的日常活動。從孩童時代起，簡就想在動物生活的環境中研究它們。但是，這不是一件簡單的事。當她1960年最初到貢貝時，對女性來說，住進大森林還是很稀罕的事情。她母親頭幾個月來幫過她的忙，這才使她得以開始了自己的計劃。她的工作改變了人們對黑猩猩的看法。比方說，她的一個重要發現是黑猩猩獵食動物，在此之前，人們一直認為黑猩猩只吃水果和堅果。她曾經親眼看到過一群黑猩猩捕殺一隻猴子，然後把它吃掉。她還發現了黑猩猩之間是如何交流的，而她對黑猩猩身勢語的研究幫助她勾勒出黑猩猩的社會體系。
For forty years Jane Goodall has been outspoken about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. She has argued that wild animals should be left in the wild and not used for entertainment or advertisements. She has helped to set up special places where they can live safely. She is leading a busy life but she says:
"Once I stop, it all comes crowding in and I remember the chimps in laboratories. It's terrible. It affects me when I watch the wild chimps. I say to myself, 'Aren't they lucky?" And then I think about small chimps in cages though they have done nothing wrong. Once you have seen that you can never forget ..."
40年來，簡·古道爾一直在呼籲是世人瞭解並尊重這些動物的生活。她主張應該讓野生動物留在野外生活，而不能用於娛樂或廣告。她還為黑猩猩建起了可以安全生活的專門的保護區。她的生活是忙忙碌碌的，然而正如她所說的：“我一旦停下來，所有的一切都會湧上心頭。我就會想起實驗室的黑猩猩。太可怕了。每當我看著野生黑猩猩時，這個念頭總是縈繞著我。我會對自己說‘難道它們不幸運嗎？’然後我就想起那些沒有任何過錯卻被關在籠子裡的小黑猩猩。一旦你看到這些，你就永遠不會忘記……”
She has achieved everything she wanted to do: working with animals in their own environment, gaining a doctor's degree and showing that women can live in the forest as men can. She inspires those who want to cheer the achievements of women.
簡已經得到了她所想要得到的一切：在動物的棲息地工作；獲得博士學位；還向世人證明女人和男人一樣能夠在森林生活。她激勵著人們為婦女們的成就而歡呼喝彩。
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