bbc經(jīng)典-《行星地球》英文解說詞（全集）

1、1行星地球英文解說詞第 1 集 PLANET EARTH From Pole to PoleA hundred years ago there were one and a half billion people on Earth. Now, over six billion crowd our fragile planet Earth. But even so, there are still places barely touche

2、d by humanity. This series will take to the last wildernesses and show you the planet Earth and its wildlife as you have never seen them before. Imagine our world without sun. Male Emperor penguins are facing the nearest

3、 that exists on planet Earth Earth - winter in Antarctica. It's continuously dark and temperatures drop to minus seventy degrees centigrade. The penguins stay when all other creatures have fled because each guards a

4、treasure: a single egg rested on the top of its feet and kept warm beneath the downy bulge of its stomach. There is no food and no water for them, and they will not see the sun again for four months. Surely no greater or

5、deal is faced by any animal. As the sun departs from the Antarctic it lightens the skies in the far north. It's March and light returns to the high Arctic, sweeping away four months of darkness. A polar bear stirs. S

6、he has been in her den the whole winter. Her emergence marks the beginning of spring. After months of confinement underground she toboggans down the slope. Perhaps to clean her fur, perhaps for sheer joy. Her cubs gaze o

7、ut of their bright new world 3the seals they must have, but she's leading her cubs into a dangerous new world. Nearly half of all cubs die in their first year out on the ice. Summer brings 24 hours of sunlight and th

8、e thawing shifting landscape. Further south the winter snows have almost cleared from the Arctic tundra. Northern Canada's wild frontier. Here nature stages one of her greatest dramas - Every year three million carib

9、ou migrate across the Arctic tundra. The immensity of the herd can only be properly appreciated from the air. Some herds travel over 2,000 miles a year in search of fresh pastures. This is the longest overland migration

10、made by any animal. They're constantly on the move. Newborn calves have to be up and running the day they are born. But the vast herds do not travel alone. Wolves. Packs of them, eight to ten strong, shadow the migra

11、tion. And they are hungry. It's the newly born calves that they are after. Running directly at the herd is a ploy to generate panic. The herd breaks up and now it's easier to target an individual. In the chaos a

12、calf is separated from its mother. The calf is young, but it can outrun the wolf if only it manages to keep its footing. At this stage the odds are even - either the caribou will make a mistake or after a mile the wolf w

13、ill give up. Midsummer on the tundra and the sun does not set. At these latitudes the sun's rays are glancing and not enough of their energy reaches the ground to enable trees to grow. You'll need to travel 500 m