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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...
n. 带，箍，波段
n. 队，一群，乐队
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- Something else learned during the Apollo rescue was how to train the penguins to take fish freely from their hands, using these training boxes.
- 此外，阿波罗海(Apollo rescue)的救援还教会我们如何凭借这些训练箱来训练企鹅们用手抓鱼。
- And we used this technique again during the Treasure rescue. But an interesting thing was noted during the training process.
- 于是这次在“宝藏(Treasure)”号救援中我们又使用了这项技术。在训练过程中有一件趣事值得一提。
- The first penguins to make that transition to free feeding were the ones that had a metal band on their wing from the Apollo Sea spill six years earlier. So penguins learn from previous experience, too.
- 最早学会自己取食的那批企鹅正是翅膀上戴有金属条，经历过六年前阿波罗海漏油事件获得救助的幸存者。由此看来 企鹅也从先前的经验中学到了东西。
- So all of those penguins had to have the oil meticulously cleaned from their bodies.
- 救援人员必须小心翼翼地将所有企鹅身上的油污清洗干净。
- It would take two people at least an hour just to clean one penguin. When you clean a penguin, you first have to spray it with a degreaser.
- 而清洗一只企鹅需要俩人协助至少得花上一个小时。而当你洗净一只企鹅后，还得马上给它喷洒脱脂剂。
- And this brings me to my favorite story from the Treasure rescue. About a year prior to this oil spill, a 17-year-old student had invented a degreaser.
- 而这也是在整个“宝藏(Treasure)”号救援行动中我最津津乐道的一段故事。在这次泄油事件发生约一年前，一名17岁的学生发明了一种脱脂剂。
- And they'd been using it at SANCCOB with great success, so they began using it during the Treasure rescue.
- 并且在南非滨海鸟类保育基金会(SANCCOB)试用后获得了巨大成功，所以这次“宝藏号”事件中救援人员也用那种脱脂剂。
- But partway through, they ran out. So in a panic, Estelle from SANCCOB called the student and said, "Please, you have to make more!"
- 但不一会儿，脱脂剂就用完了。情急之下，保育基金会的埃斯特尔(Estelle)给那个学生打电话求助道：“不得不拜托你再造些脱脂剂。”
- So he raced to the lab and made enough to clean the rest of the birds.
- 然后那个学生就赶到实验室造了足够多的脱脂剂来清理余下的企鹅。
- So I just think it is the coolest thing that a teenager invented a product that helped save the lives of thousands of animals.
- 于是我就想，一个少年竟发明了一种产品，拯救了千万条动物的生命，这未免也太酷了。
- So what happened to those 20,000 oiled penguins? And was Silvia Gaus right?
- 那么那两万只企鹅究竟怎样了呢？希尔维亚·高斯(Silvia Gaus)的理论是否正确呢？
- Should we routinely euthanize all oiled birds because most of them are going to die anyway?
- 我们是否应该以“反正它们终归会死的”为借口而施以所有这些被油污染的企鹅安乐死呢？
- Well, she could not be more wrong. After half a million hours of grueling volunteer labor, more than 90 percent of those oiled penguins were successfully returned to the wild.
- 事实证明维亚的判断大错特错。在50万个小时艰辛的救援工作之后，超过90%的被污染企鹅顺利返回家园。
- And we know from follow-up studies that they have lived just as long as never-oiled penguins, and bred nearly as successfully.
- 并且通过我们后续的跟踪调查，这批企鹅活得与那些未被污染的企鹅一般好，其繁殖也几乎与那些同胞一样顺利。
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