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演讲简介：
这是一次个人经历，亦是一个团体取得的胜利：黛安·德娜珀丽给我们带来一个世界上最大规模的志愿者拯救动物的故事，这次行动挽救了四万多只被南非海岸泄漏的石油累及生命的企鹅。而这样浩大的工程志愿者们是如何完成的呢？那只有一只、一只、一只企鹅地拯救...
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- The other thing that was so striking was the sheer number of volunteers.
- 另外一件令我震撼的事，便是那庞大的志愿者队伍。
- Up to 1,000 people a day came to the rescue center.
- 每天有多达1000位朋友来到救助中心。
- Eventually, over the course of this rescue, more than 12-and-a-half thousand volunteers came from all over the world to Cape Town, to help save these birds.
- 最终，在整个救助过程中，有12500多名来自世界各地的志愿者参与了此次开普敦(Capetown)的企鹅救援行动。
- And the amazing thing was that not one of them had to be there. Yet they were.
- 而最令人感动的是，他们中没有一个人有义务呆在那儿——但他们却做到了。
- So for the few of us that were there in a professional capacity, this extraordinary volunteer response to this animal crisis was profoundly moving and awe-inspiring.
- 因此对于我们中一部分被职业所趋而至的人来说，志愿者们对于这次动物危机救援，所报以的强烈回应着实叫人动容，令我们肃然起敬。
- So the day after we arrived, two of us from the aquarium were put in charge of room two.
- 在我们抵达救援中心的第二天，专家中来自水族馆的俩人即被安排负责二号房。
- Room two had more than 4,000 oiled penguins in it.
- 二号房有四千多只企鹅亟待抢救。
- Now, mind you -- three days earlier, we had 60 penguins under our care, so we were definitely overwhelmed and just a bit terrified -- at least I was.
- 可你要知道，就在三天前，我们还仅有60只企鹅需要照顾。所以我们当时就傻眼了，甚至还有点畏惧——至少我是如此。
- Personally, I really didn't know if I was capable of handling such a monstrous task.
- 就个人而言，我真不知道自己能否驾驭如此之大的局面。
- And collectively, we really didn't know if we could pull this off.
- 而对于大家来说，我们对于能否达成目标也没底儿。
- Because we all knew that just six years earlier, half as many penguins had been oiled and rescued, and only half of them had survived.
- 因为我们都清楚，就在六年前，有两千来只企鹅被污染并于之后得到了救助，但最后也只有半数的企鹅得以存活。
- So would it be humanly possible to save this many oiled penguins? We just did not know.
- 因此人类是否有能力救援这么多被污染的企鹅呢？我们也不知道。
- But what gave us hope were these incredibly dedicated and brave volunteers, three of whom here are force-feeding penguins.
- 这个时候给我们带来希望的，是那些无比专注和万分勇敢的志愿者们——照片中有三个志愿者正在给企鹅进行灌食。
- You may notice they're wearing very thick gloves. And what you should know about African penguins is that they have razor-sharp beaks.
- 大家可能已经注意到他们都戴着厚厚的手套。在这里我要告诉大家的是，非洲企鹅有着如刀片般锋利的喙。
- And before long, our bodies were covered head to toe with these nasty wounds inflicted by the terrified penguins.
- 与之相处，要不了多久，我们全身都会留下被那些惊慌失措的企鹅啄后留下的骇人疤痕。
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| striking | ['straikiŋ] | |||
| cape | [keip] | 联想记忆 | ||
| extraordinary | [iks'trɔ:dnri] | 联想记忆 | ||
| capacity | [kə'pæsiti] | 联想记忆 | ||
| sheer | [ʃiə] | |||
| professional | [prə'feʃənl] | |||
| response | [ri'spɔns] | 联想记忆 | ||
| rescue | ['reskju:] | 联想记忆 | ||
| eventually | [i'ventjuəli] | |||
| dedicated | ['dedi.keitid] |
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