奇妙岛屿 09-英语听力

[00:00.20]Amazingly,
令人惊奇的是 [00:01.26]one single type of finch evolved into 58 different species and all because the birds that normally fill these roles,
单一品种的雀演变成了58个不同的种类，这一切都是因为这些鸟类通常所扮演不同角色 [00:09.26]like hummingbirds and woodpeckers, never made it to these islands.
蜂鸟和啄木鸟从未到过这些岛屿 [00:20.63]Landfall in the Pacific is a risky business.
在太平洋岛屿上着陆是件冒险的事 [00:24.40]Most islands are small, low and rather uniform,
多数岛屿小又低 千篇一律景色 [00:28.93]with few lifestyle choices on offer.
生活方式的选择只能退其次 [00:31.75]But there is an archipelago that truly bucks the trend.
有座群岛却有雄起的趋势 [00:40.02]Two of the largest islands in the Pacific have everything a castaway could dream of.
太平洋上有2座最大的岛屿 其一切都是漂流者的梦想 [00:54.83]Here lives a greater diversity of unique island creatures than almost anywhere else in the South Pacific.
这里生活着独有的岛屿生物几乎比南太平洋上任何地方更多样性 [01:09.82]Forested valleys, turbulent rivers and glacier-topped peaks，
草木丛生的山谷 汹涌的河流 被冰川覆盖的山峰... [01:15.45]this is New Zealand.
这是新西兰 [01:25.49]A thousand miles long and with a mountainous spine rising one-and-a-half miles above the ocean,
新西兰的领土绵延千里，有着许多高过海平面1.5英里的山脉 [01:31.39]New Zealand offered a world of possibilities to creatures that found their way here.
新西兰为找到这儿来的许多生物提供了生存下去的可能性 [01:35.96]