字神帝國英語天地

 洪欣老師推薦：托福聽力最好的課外教材：60-Second Science
 康康精選托福會考的主題，堅持每天精聽一定會進步的哦!!

 建議方法：
1. 先聽兩三遍 (不看文稿)
2. 再一句一句聽寫 (每句都要聽寫數遍，直到寫出85%以上的字)
3. 最後check文稿，看哪聽不出來，單字沒背過，還是發音不熟。
4. 堅持天天聽，就能每天進步哦。

 MP3音檔 (按右鍵可下載聽)：喜歡的同學，幫忙推或按讚哦~~
http://online1.tingclass.net/voas…/2015/20150116sa_earth.mp3

 只有音檔怎夠，聽不懂地方，不用怕，康康幫你準備好中英文稿了：

 中英文稿：
“The Creator would appear…endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other.” That quip from biologist and atheist J.B.S. Haldane in 1949 is really about the extraordinary number of beetles researchers had characterized, some 300,000 at that time.
“造物主將現身……一方面帶著對星辰的酷愛，一方面帶著對甲蟲的酷愛。”出自生物學家和無神論者J.B.S.霍爾丹的這番妙語，在1949年確實道出了當時研究人員所能描述出來的相當數量(約30萬)的甲蟲。

Now we know of about 400,000 beetles. And scientists have just added 98 previously unlisted beetle species to that tally, as well as one rediscovered species thought to be extinct.
現在我們已知的甲蟲約有40萬。科學家們剛剛在該記錄上加了98種以前未收錄的甲蟲品種，以及一個曾被認為已經滅絕但又重新被發現的種類。

The beetles hail from Bali, Java and Lombok in Indonesia, showing once again that islands can be major cradles of biodiversity. The 99 species can be found in the open access journal ZooKeys, and in the leaf litter of Indonesian forests.
這些來自巴厘島、印尼的爪哇島和龍目島的甲蟲，再次說明了島嶼可能是生物多樣性的主要發源地。這99種甲蟲可以在公共期刊《動物之謎》中以及印尼森林的落葉中見到。

But those forests are falling, to make room for people and palm oil plantations. With the forests go the forest creatures, including unique fauna like these newly discovered beetles. And there no doubt exist many, many more unknown species, as the tropical forests of Indonesia remain largely unexplored—despite expeditions since at least the time of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer with Darwin of evolution via natural selection.
但這些森林正在退減，給人類和棕櫚油種植園騰出空間。隨著森林退減森林裡的生靈也隨之而亡，其中包括一些稀有物種，比如這些新發現的甲蟲。毫無疑問的是， 儘管至少從博物學家艾爾弗雷德•羅素•華萊士和達爾文共同探索“物競天擇”的進化論時期，就已經開始了探險式探索，但印尼的熱帶雨林仍很大程度上未被開發 ——因而還有非常多的未知物種存在。

The question is, will deforestation wipe away the other unknown insects—and nematodes, microbes and other uncharismatic microfauna—before we had a chance to know them?
問題是，濫砍濫伐會不會毀滅了其它的未知昆蟲、線蟲、細菌及其它不討人喜歡的微型動物群種——導致我們連認識它們的機會都沒有?