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留學時，到過紐約的中央公園幾次，每次都留下美美的回憶…^0^
 今日主題：Central Park Features Worldwide Soil Microbes
中央公園展示世界土壤微生物特徵

 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：喜歡的同學，幫忙推或按讚哦~~
http://online1.tingclass.net/voaspe/…/20141010sa_science.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 soil in Manhattan's Central Park contains microbial life that also exists in deserts, frozen tundra, forests, rainforests and prairies. Steve Mirsky reports
曼哈頓的中央公園的土壤包含一些微生物，而這些微生物同樣存在於沙漠、冰凍苔原、森林、雨林和大草原中。史蒂夫‧斯基報導。

"If you want to find unique diversity and if you want to find a wide range of different below-ground organisms, you don't have to travel around the world. You can walk across Central Park."
「如果想發現獨特的各種各樣的物種，倘若你想找到各種不同種類的地下微生物，不需要遊遍世界，你可以走遍中央公園。」

That statement comes from Noah Fierer, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He's also a coauthor of a study that uncovered the surprisingly large diversity of subterranean microbial life at the 843-acre green rectangle in the heart of Manhattan. The research is in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. [Kelly S. Ramirez et al, Biogeographic patterns in below-ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally]
這些話是科羅拉多大學的生態學家、生物進化學家諾亞‧菲勒教授說的。他還是一項研究的合著人，該研究揭示了曼哈頓心臟地區843英畝的綠色矩形陣中地下驚人的多種多樣的微生物。這項研究在《英國皇家學會會報 B》上發表。

Investigators looked at 596 separate soil samples from the park and found thousands of different types of microbes. They also compared those microbes with those living in 52 other soil samples taken from all around the planet. The park had organisms that also exist in deserts, frozen tundra, forests, rainforests and prairies. Antarctica was the only area that had microbes that did not overlap with those found in Central Park. And only a small percentage of the park's microbes were found to be already listed in databases.
研究者查看了596份公園裡不同的土壤樣本，發現成千上萬種微生物。他們還把這些微生物與在地球上另外52種土壤樣本中的微生物作比較。公園裡存在的有機 生命在沙漠、冰凍苔原、森林、雨林和大草原中存在。南極洲是唯一一個與中央公園沒有相同微生物的地區。輸入數據庫的一些微生物種只是發現的一小部分。

The variety of microbes probably reflects a diversity of soil conditions within the park.
微生物的多樣性也許正反應了公園裡土壤的多樣性。

Seems that New York is a melting pot for people above the surface. And for microbes beneath it.
看來紐約地表是人口的大熔爐；紐約地下是微生物的大熔爐。