托福聽力長難句分析(十六)

同學們在學習托福聽力的過程中，最頭疼的就是句子的理解，尤其是長難句。但是相對于閱讀文本來說，聽力的問題其實是比較簡答的，我們在理解句子的時候基本只要考劃分句子的主干成分，配合一些短語搭配就可以了，但是關鍵是要求我們的反應速度要非常的快，我們現(xiàn)在就具體以TPO中的句子為例，來分析一下長難句。(TPO3-L1)

Now, we’ve been talking about the loss of animal habitat from housing developments, um…, growing cities – small habitat losses. But today I wanna begin talking about what happens when habitat is reduced across a large area.

我們一直在討論在住房建設和城市發(fā)展中動物棲息地的減少，今天我們想討論當大片棲息地在減少時會發(fā)生什么。

There are, of course, animal species that require large areas of habitat, and some migrate over very long distances. So what’s the impact of habitat loss on those animals – animals that need large areas of habitat?

當然有需要大片棲息地的物種，也有遷徙的物種，那么棲息地的減少對這些物種有什么影響呢?

Now you know a humming bird is amazingly small, but even though it’s really tiny, it migrates over very long distances, travels up and down the western hemisphere – the Americas, back and forth between where it breeds in the summer and the warmer climates where it spends the winter.

大家都知道蜂鳥的體型非常小，但是它遷徙時能飛到非常遠的地方，南北橫跨西半球美國，在夏季的繁殖地和氣候暖和一點的地方來回，它們會到暖和一點的地方過冬。

So we would say that this whole area over which it migrates is its habitat because on this long-distance journey, it needs to come down to feed and sleep every so often, right?

這樣你會說它們遷徙跨越的這片土地都是它們的棲息地，因為在他們長途遷徙的過程中他們需要時不時停下來進食和休息。

Well, the humming bird beats its wings – get this – about 3 thousand times per minute. So you think, wow, it must need a lot of energy, a lot of food, right?

蜂鳥煽動翅膀，大約每分鐘3千次。所以他們會需要很多的能量，很多的食物。

Well, it does. It drinks a lot of nectar from flowers and feeds on some insects, but it’s energy-efficient too.

確實是這樣。它們得喝很多花蜜吃很多昆蟲，其實它們也是很節(jié)能的。

I mean, as it flies all the way across the Gulf of Mexico, it uses up almost none of its body fat. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t need to eat. So humming birds have to rely on plants in their natural habitat.

當他們飛過墨西哥灣時它們并沒有耗盡身體的脂肪，但是這并不意味著他們不需要進食，所以自然棲息地中的植物對于蜂鳥來說是十分重要的。

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