wu jin wang yang 10

Song 无尽汪洋 10
Artist 英语听力
Album BBC南太平洋

Lyrics

[00:00.41] The greatest ocean wanderer,
[00:02.67] with its two-metre wingspan,
[00:05.10] is the albatross.
[00:06.60] To find enough food for its oversized offspring,
[00:09.64] this black-footed albatross may have travelled
[00:11.87] a staggering 6,000 miles across the open ocean
[00:15.64] looking for hot spots of squid and fish.
[00:18.66] The albatross nest on the tiny Hawaiian islands of French Frigate Shoals.
[00:23.28] This island may be only half a mile long,
[00:26.05] but it provides a base for around 300,000 seabirds.
[00:30.99] With food so hard to come by in the open ocean,
[00:34.20] newly hatched sooty tern chicks are easy pickings for the larger frigate birds.
[00:46.22] For hours on end, they survey the nesting grounds,
[00:48.77] waiting for a chance to strike.
[00:51.76] A mother tries desperately to protect her helpless chick.
[00:56.65] But an unguarded chick is desperately vulnerable.
[01:00.40] It's what the frigate has been waiting for.
[01:03.86] No wonder the crew of the Essex called them the "man-of-war" birds.
[01:08.69] For two weeks,
[01:09.86] the frigate birds keep up their relentless aerial assault
[01:12.33] until finally the sooty tern chicks are old enough to get away.
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