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I' m Oliver Crimmen, fish curator. I' ve been working since I was 19 years old here at the museum and fishes have taken over most of my life. We don' t have every fish on the planet in the collections. I' m sure the Victorians would have liked that but the fact is we don' t know yet how many fishes there are. We' re still discovering them. The very beginnings of the collections in the 18th century, the Victorians were interested in the Empire and natural resources that they might want to exploit. Nowadays, we' ve got a very different focus. We' re worried about what we might be doing to the planet. This collection, although it might have had different sort of motives behind it for some of its history, it' s still continuing to provide answers to modern questions. |
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wǒ shì yú lèi biāo běn guǎn lǐ yuán ào lì fú kè lǐ màn, cóng 19 suì qǐ, wǒ jiù zài zhè gè bó wù guǎn gōng zuò, kě yǐ shuō yú lèi zhàn jù le wǒ de dà bàn shēng. wǒ men de shōu cáng bìng méi qióng jí dì qiú shàng suǒ yǒu yú lèi, dāng shí xīng qǐ le shāng yè bǔ yú fēng cháo, wǒ xiǎng wéi duō lì yà shí rén men kěn dìng xī wàng bǔ dé gèng duō. shì shí shàng, wǒ men yě bù zhī dào dì qiú shàng dào dǐ yǒu duō shǎo zhǒng yú lèi, wǒ men hái zài bù duàn tàn suǒ, zuì zǎo de shōu cáng shǐ yú 18 shì jì, wéi duō lì yà shí dài de rén rè zhōng yú tǒng zhì, yǐ jí duì zì rán zī yuán de kāi fā. xiàn zài, wǒ men de cè zhòng diǎn dà yǒu bù tóng, wǒ men dān xīn rén lèi xíng dòng huì pò huài dì qiú. zhè lǐ de shōu cáng suī rán chū zì bù tóng shí dài, shōu cáng de dòng jī yě gè yǒu bù tóng, dàn tā men dí què jiě jué le hěn duō xiàn dài nán tí. |