托福听力长难句分析(十六)

同学们在学习托福听力的过程中，最头疼的就是句子的理解，尤其是长难句。但是相对于阅读文本来说，听力的问题其实是比较简答的，我们在理解句子的时候基本只要考划分句子的主干成分，配合一些短语搭配就可以了，但是关键是要求我们的反应速度要非常的快，我们现在就具体以TPO中的句子为例，来分析一下长难句。(TPO3-L1)

Now, we’ve been talking about the loss of animal habitat from housing developments, um…, growing cities – small habitat losses. But today I wanna begin talking about what happens when habitat is reduced across a large area.

我们一直在讨论在住房建设和城市发展中动物栖息地的减少，今天我们想讨论当大片栖息地在减少时会发生什么。

There are, of course, animal species that require large areas of habitat, and some migrate over very long distances. So what’s the impact of habitat loss on those animals – animals that need large areas of habitat?

当然有需要大片栖息地的物种，也有迁徙的物种，那么栖息地的减少对这些物种有什么影响呢?

Now you know a humming bird is amazingly small, but even though it’s really tiny, it migrates over very long distances, travels up and down the western hemisphere – the Americas, back and forth between where it breeds in the summer and the warmer climates where it spends the winter.

大家都知道蜂鸟的体型非常小，但是它迁徙时能飞到非常远的地方，南北横跨西半球美国，在夏季的繁殖地和气候暖和一点的地方来回，它们会到暖和一点的地方过冬。

So we would say that this whole area over which it migrates is its habitat because on this long-distance journey, it needs to come down to feed and sleep every so often, right?

这样你会说它们迁徙跨越的这片土地都是它们的栖息地，因为在他们长途迁徙的过程中他们需要时不时停下来进食和休息。

Well, the humming bird beats its wings – get this – about 3 thousand times per minute. So you think, wow, it must need a lot of energy, a lot of food, right?

蜂鸟煽动翅膀，大约每分钟3千次。所以他们会需要很多的能量，很多的食物。

Well, it does. It drinks a lot of nectar from flowers and feeds on some insects, but it’s energy-efficient too.

确实是这样。它们得喝很多花蜜吃很多昆虫，其实它们也是很节能的。

I mean, as it flies all the way across the Gulf of Mexico, it uses up almost none of its body fat. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t need to eat. So humming birds have to rely on plants in their natural habitat.

当他们飞过墨西哥湾时它们并没有耗尽身体的脂肪，但是这并不意味着他们不需要进食，所以自然栖息地中的植物对于蜂鸟来说是十分重要的。

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