Lan的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day

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[Day 1744 2019-07-06]

Lesson 18-1 Porpoises

There has long been a superstition among mariners that porpoises will save

drowning men by pushing them to the surface, or protect them from sharks by

surrounding them in defensive formation. Marine Studio biologists have pointed out

that, however intelligent they may be, it is probably a mistake to credit dolphins with

any motive of lifesaving. On the occasions when they have pushed to shore an

unconscious human being they have much more likely done it out of curiosity or for

sport, as in riding the bow waves of a ship. In 1928 some porpoises were photographed

working like beavers to push ashore a waterlogged mattress. If, as has been reported,

they have protected humans from sharks, it may have been because curiosity attracted

them and because the scent of a possible meal attracted the sharks.

任务配置：L0+L1+L4

知识笔记：

superstition    n. 迷信; 迷信观念(或思想);

mariners  n. 水手;

porpoises    n. 钝吻海豚; 鼠海豚;

waterlogged    adj. 水浸的; 水涝的; 水淹的; 进水满舱的; 浸满水下沉的;

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