歌词
--- Lesson 90 What's for supper?
晚餐吃什么？
--- First listen and then answer the question.
^听录音，然后回答以下问题。
--- What kind of fish are they?
Fish and chips has always been a favourite dish in Britain,
^油煎鱼加炸土豆片一直是英国人喜爱的一道菜，
but as the oceans have been overfished, fish has become more and more expensive.
^但是随着海洋里的滥捕滥捞，鱼已经变得越来越昂贵。
So it comes as a surprise to learn that giant fish are terrifying the divers on North Sea oil rigs.
^因此，听说北海石油钻井平台上的潜水员受到巨型鱼类的恐吓，确实很让人吃惊。
Oil rigs have to be repaired frequently and divers, who often have to work in darkness a hundred feet under water,
^钻井平台需要经常修理，潜水员常常要在水面100英尺以下摸黑工作，
have been frightened out of their wits by giant fish bumping into them as they work.
^他们曾在工作时被撞到他们身上的大鱼吓得惊惶失措。
Now they have had special cages made to protect them from these monsters.
^现在他们有了特制的笼子，用来保护他们免受大鱼的侵袭。
The fish are not sharks or killer whales,
^这些鱼并不是鲨鱼或逆戟鲸，
but favourite eating varieties like cod and skate which grow to unnatural sizes, sometimes as much as twelve feet in length.
^而是深受人们喜爱的食用鱼品种，如鳕鱼和鳐鱼，只不过它们长得出奇地大，有时长达12英尺。
Three factors have caused these fish to grow so large:
^这些鱼能长得这么大是由3个因素造成的：
the warm water round the hot oil pipes under the sea;
^海底热的输油管道附近的温暖的海水；
the plentiful supply of food thrown overboard by the crews on the rigs;
^钻井平台工作人员抛到海里充足的食物；
the total absence of fishing boats around the oil rigs.
^钻井平台周围根本没有捕鱼船只。
As a result, the fish just eat and eat and grow and grow in the lovely warm water. Who eats who?
^结果是，这些鱼就在舒适的，温暖的水流中吃呀吃，长呀长。究竟谁吃谁呢？
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