qi miao dao yu 16

Song 奇妙岛屿 16
Artist 英语听力
Album BBC南太平洋

Lyrics

[00:00.00] It's home to a living fossil,
[00:02.09] a relict,
[00:03.42] barely changed for over 100 million years. The tuatara.
[00:07.91] And half the world's population survive on this one island refuge.
[00:12.89] During the reign of the dinosaurs,
[00:14.42] the ancestors of the tuatara were everywhere.
[00:17.62] They survived the cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs,
[00:21.07] but then couldn't compete with the mammals and died out.
[00:24.95] Everywhere, except on what was then a mammal-free New Zealand.
[00:29.28] Unlike mammals,
[00:30.63] tuatara live life in the slow lane.
[00:34.68] Days can pass when they barely move a muscle.
[00:37.99] Sometimes taking just one breath an hour.
[00:41.49] They feed on wetas,
[00:43.25] beetles and other invertebrates
[00:45.60] but don't appear very good at catching them.
[00:48.30] Even after millions of years of practice,
[00:50.65] eye-mouth co-ordination is not what it could be.
[00:53.86] "Survival of the fittest" just doesn't seem to apply here. “
[00:58.49] The tuatara's survival,
[01:00.15] first on New Zealand,
[01:01.33] now on Stephens Island,
[01:02.75] proves a point - islands are pretty safe places to be,
[01:06.81] at least until invaded.

Pinyin

[00:00.00] It' s home to a living fossil,
[00:02.09] a relict,
[00:03.42] barely changed for over 100 million years. The tuatara.
[00:07.91] And half the world' s population survive on this one island refuge.
[00:12.89] During the reign of the dinosaurs,
[00:14.42] the ancestors of the tuatara were everywhere.
[00:17.62] They survived the cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs,
[00:21.07] but then couldn' t compete with the mammals and died out.
[00:24.95] Everywhere, except on what was then a mammalfree New Zealand.
[00:29.28] Unlike mammals,
[00:30.63] tuatara live life in the slow lane.
[00:34.68] Days can pass when they barely move a muscle.
[00:37.99] Sometimes taking just one breath an hour.
[00:41.49] They feed on wetas,
[00:43.25] beetles and other invertebrates
[00:45.60] but don' t appear very good at catching them.
[00:48.30] Even after millions of years of practice,
[00:50.65] eyemouth coordination is not what it could be.
[00:53.86] " Survival of the fittest" just doesn' t seem to apply here. "
[00:58.49] The tuatara' s survival,
[01:00.15] first on New Zealand,
[01:01.33] now on Stephens Island,
[01:02.75] proves a point islands are pretty safe places to be,
[01:06.81] at least until invaded.