2019经济学人考研英文文章阅读八十五
2019经济学人考研英文文章阅读八十
Game of Thrones-themed tourism is coming《权力的游戏》主题游即将到来“From the top of this gate the rioters threw shit at King Joffrey’s head,”explains Ivan Vukovik,a tour guide,pointing to Pile Gate in Dubrovnik.导游伊凡·万科尼奇指着杜布罗夫尼克的派勒城门解释说:“暴徒站在城门上往乔佛里国王头上扔大便。
”He is referring to an event in the second season of“Game of Thrones”, a series famous for gratuitous nudity,extraordinary violence and a huge array of characters,from a wise and libidinous dwarf to a princess who convinces three dragons that she is their mother.他指的是《权力的游戏》第二季中发生的一个事件，这部电视剧以无端的裸露、非凡的暴力以及丰富的人物角色（从聪明又好色的矮人，到让三条龙相信她是它们的母亲的公主）而闻名。
Dubrovnik’s old,walled town is instantly recognisable to fans as King’s Landing,the main city in the imaginary world created by George R.R. Martin,the author of the books on which the show is based.Armies of “set-jetters”(a term for fans who visit film locations)descend on Dubrovnik each year,vastly outnumbering its1,500-odd inhabitants.粉丝们一眼就能认出，城墙环绕的杜布罗夫尼克古城正是电视剧《权力的游戏》中的君临城（该剧原著作者乔治·R·R·马丁创造的虚构世界中的主要城市）。
考研英语阅读理解外刊原文经济学人
The Guardian view on unaffordable homes: building injustice into the economy《卫报》关于难以负担的住房的观点：在经济中制造不公The average wage of the top 1% in Britain rose to £13,770 a month in December. Jeevun Sandher, an economist at King’s College London, points out the very richest saw their incomes rise the fastest during the pandemic. This group were also likely to have been able to save the most while Covid raged. Where do the very wealthiest spend their cash? One place is housing, for which there is a low level of stock being released on to the market. The result is rising house prices. Over the past 12 months, asking prices have gone up by 9.5%.12月，英国最富有的1%人群的平均工资上升至每月13770英镑。
伦敦国王学院的经济学家桑德尔指出，在疫情期间，最富有的人的收入增长最快。
在新冠病毒肆虐期间，这一群体也可能是能够存最多钱的人。
最富有的人把钱花在哪里？其中一个地方就是住房，因为住房市场上的存量很低。
结果就是房价上涨。
在过去12个月里，住房要价上涨了9.5%。
This has a knock-on effect for renters. UK rents rose by 8.3% in the last three months of 2021. For would-be first-time buyers, the situation is as bad if not worse, with the current average price of £277,000 nearly £25,000 higher than just a year ago. Those looking to have a roof to live under will find little solace in official figures. These record an 11% drop in the number of total homes added in 2021 compared with the year before. The number of new affordable houses that began being built dropped 16% year-on-year. Shortages of labour and materials, as well as planning delays, will make it harder for the 11th Tory housing minister since 2010 to meet government targets for new homes.这对租客产生了连锁反应。
考研英语阅读英文原刊《经济学人》：收入与幸福感
考研英语阅读英文原刊《经济学人》：收入与幸福感Happiness and Income收入与幸福感Everything that rises must converge幸福的家庭总是相似的Emerging markets are catching up with the West inthe happiness stakes新兴国家的幸福指数将要赶上西方POETS, songwriters and left-wing politicians hate theidea, but for decades opinion-poll evidence has been clear: money buys happiness and thericher you are, the more likely you are to express satisfaction with your life. Until now. Asurvey of 43 countries published on October 30th by the Pew Research Centre of Washington,DC, shows that people in emerging markets are within a whisker of expressing the same levelof satisfaction as people in rich countries. It is the biggest qualification to the standard viewof happiness and income seen so far.诗人，作词家，左翼政治家总是反驳这样一个观点：钱可以买到幸福，一个人越有钱，他对生活的满意感就可能越高。
但是十年来民意调查却清楚证明了这一点。
不过，位于华盛顿特区的皮尤研究中心调查了43个国家后，发现发展中国家的人对生活满意度与富有国家的人们生活满意度相差无几。
考研英语阅读理解外刊原文经济学人
“This Mortal Coil” is a surprisingly upbeat history of death《人世纷扰》出人意料地以乐观态度讲述人类死亡史Andrew Doig’s study of how people die is a story of human ingenuity安德鲁·多伊格对人类死因的探究也是一个关于人类智慧的故事For over 200 years, France has diligently recorded the life spans of its citizens. Since 1816 their average life expectancy has more than doubled: long skewed by high infant mortality, it jumped from 41.1 years to 85.3 for French women, and from 39.1 years to 79.3 for men.200多年来，法国一直在孜孜不倦地记录着公民的寿命。
自1816年以来，法国人的平均预期寿命增长了一倍多：在经历长期被高婴儿死亡率拉低的阶段后，法国女性的平均预期寿命从41.1岁跃升至85.3岁，男性从39.1岁跃升至79.3岁。
In other words, it “has increased on average by five hours per day”, writes Andrew Doig in “This Mortal Coil”, a study of how people die. “So, every day, the date of a French person’s death gets closer by 24 hours due to the passing of time, but recedes by five hours, thanks to medicine, nutrition, sanitation, good government, trade, peace and so on.”安德鲁·多伊格在其研究人类如何死亡的著作《人世纷扰》中写道，换句话说，法国人的预期寿命“平均每天延长5个小时”。
2019经济学人考研英文文章阅读一一一
The legal cannabis market shrank in California last year去年，加州的合法大麻市场在萎缩Harbourside Cannabis in Oakland is a modern-day temple to the delights and possibilities of the botanical marvel that is the plant Cannabis sativa. Around the airy shop move a well-heeled clientele.They browse among offerings ranging from cannabis-infused chocolate to sparkling water and vape pens.奥克兰的哈伯赛德大麻公司是一座可供寻求快乐和见识到大麻种植奇观的现代庙宇。
一群有钱人在通透的大麻商店里来来往往。
他们浏览着从大麻巧克力到大麻起泡水和大麻电子烟等各式各样的大麻商品。
California was the first state to allow sales of medical cannabis in1996, and Harbourside one of the first shops in America to sell pot legally.Since January last year,the firm has also been able to sell pot for purely recreational purposes.1996年，加州成为美国首个允许销售医用大麻的州，哈伯赛德也是美国首批合法销售大麻的商店之一。
自去年1月以来，哈伯赛德也能销售纯娱乐用途的大麻了。
Thanks to its large number of“medical”users,California’s is the largest legal cannabis market in the world.But since the legalisation of adult sales, that market has been shrinking.得益于大批的“医疗”用户，加州成为了全球最大的合法大麻市场。
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（考研英语阅读原文很多来自《经济学人》，希望大家好好看看)印度的救赎IN MAY America’s Federal Reserve hinted that it would soon start to reduce its vast purchases of Treasury bonds. As global investors adjusted to a world without ultra—cheap money, there has been a great sucking of funds from emerging markets。
Currencies and shares have tumbled, from Brazil to Indonesia, but one country has been particularly badly hit。
今年五月，美国联邦储备委员会(Federal Reserve）暗示，它将很快开始缩减大量购买国债的规模。
随着全球投资者开始调整策略，以适应没有超廉价资金的世界，大量资金开始逃离新兴市场.从巴西到印度尼西亚，货币及股票纷纷暴跌，但有一个国家受创尤其严重.Not so long ago India was celebrated as an economic miracle. In 2008 Manmohan Singh，the prime minister，said growth of 8—9% was India’s new cruising speed. He even predicted the end of the “chronic poverty，ignorance and disease, which has been the fate of millions of our countrymen for centuries”. Today he admits the outlook is difficult. The rupee has tumbled by 13% in three months。
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2019考研英语经济学人阅读1（英语学习）联合国严厉制裁朝鲜The European Union announced that it will provide700m ($760m) in aid to accommodate migrants incountries overwhelmed by the refugee crisis. Most ofthe money is expected to go to Greece. AngelaMerkel, Germany’s chancellor, scolded Austria andother countries for clamping down on refugeearrivals, and vowed not to abandon Greece.欧盟宣布将向深陷难民危机的国家提供7亿欧元(7.6亿美元)的难民安置援助。
该援助的一大部分将给希腊。
德国总理安吉拉·默克尔(Angela Merkel)谴责奥地利等国家抵制难民入境的行为，并承诺不会放弃对希腊的援助。
The leader of Spain’s Socialist Party, Pedro Sánchez, failed in his first attempt to form aminority government with the upstart centrist Ciudadanos party. Both the centre-right PopularParty and the far-left Podemos party voted against the proposed coalition in parliament. If MrSánchez fails again in a second vote planned for March 4th, the caretaker government willprobably call new elections.西班牙工人社会党( Socialist Party)领导人彼得罗·桑切斯(Pedro Sánchez)与新兴中立公民党(Ciudadanos party)首次尝试组建少数党政府，但最终以失败告终。
2019经济学人考研英文文章阅读一一七
In praise of dissenters赞扬那些持不同意见的人It pays companies to encourage a variety of opinions鼓励员工发出不同的声音有利于公司的发展The story of the emperor’s new clothes is one of Hans Christian Andersen’s best-known fables.Conmen fool the monarch into believing they have made him a fabulous suit that the unworthy will be unable to see.Courtiers dare not say that the emperor is naked;it takes a child to point out the obvious.《皇帝的新装》是安徒生最著名的寓言之一。
骗子欺骗国王，让国王相信他们为其做了一件愚人看不见的精美的服装。
大臣们不敢说国王是赤裸着身体的；只有一个小孩说出了显而易见的事实。
The moral is that people are often too hidebound by social convention to state their views.How many companies have ploughed ahead with expensive projects that were favoured by the chief executive,even when other managers have had doubts?这则寓言的寓意是，人们往往过于墨守成规，而不愿意说出自己的观点。
有多少公司会奋力推行首席执行官所青睐的成本高昂的项目，即使有其他管理者对该项目表示怀疑？In his new book“Rebel Ideas:The Power of Diverse Thinking”,Matthew Syed,a sportsman-turned-journalist,argues that the key to dealing withthis problem is“cognitive diversity”.In other words,assembling a team of people with different perspectives and intellectual backgrounds.运动员出身的记者马修·施雅德在其新书《反叛思想：多元化思维的力量》中认为，解决这一问题的关键在于“认知多样性”。
考研英语阅读理解外刊原文经济学人
Have baby, stay in school生孩子还是继续上学？Why teenage mothers in Zimbabwe struggle to get educated为什么津巴布韦的未成年妈妈很难继续接受教育Brilliant Ndlovu has never really known childhood. Since the age of seven she has headed her household in Tsholotsho, a town in rural western Zimbabwe, after her parents went to work abroad. The oldest of five, she scraped a living growing crops while trying to keep up with her schoolwork.聪明的恩德洛夫从未真正经历过童年。
自从7岁起，她的父母去国外工作后，她就一直在津巴布韦西部乡村小镇茨洛特肖主持家务。
她是五个孩子中的老大，一边靠种庄稼勉强糊口，一边还要努力完成学业。
But in 2020 the covid-19 pandemic struck, coming shortly after a devastating drought. Farmers could not afford to pay child labourers like Ms Ndlovu. “So I looked for a man to help support my family,” she recalls. She found one who demanded sex in exchange for money. Aged 17, she got pregnant.但在2020年，经历一场毁灭性的干旱后，新冠疫情又紧随其后。
2019经济学人考研英文文章阅读一二八
Why people should leave the countryside为什么人们要离开农村Quitting a village and heading for the slums makes people richer离开村庄前往城市的贫民窟会让人们更富有In Weicheng,A village in Hebei province,a group of friends are tucking into duck,broccoli and dumplings,flavoured with raw garlic and lubricated with baijiu liquor.It is the Chinese new year,and migrant workers have come home to see their families.在河北省的魏城村，几位好友正吃着鸭肉、西兰花和饺子，他们嚼着生蒜调味、喝着白酒润喉。
这正是中国的农历新年，外出务工的农民工纷纷回家探亲。
Nationwide,some3bn journeys were undertaken during the holiday season this year,making it the biggest mass migration ever;though next year’s will doubtless be even bigger.今年春节期间，全国旅客运输量高达30亿人次，这也成为中国有史以来最大规模的一次人口迁移；当然，明年的规模毫无疑问将更大。
Suddenly a loud phone interrupts.Two men pop outside to take the call. When they come back,they both have new jobs:a three-month contract on a building site in Taiyuan,a city neither man has visited before.突如其来的一通来电打断了饭局。
考研英语阅读理解外刊原文经济学人
Britain’s young face a poorer future英国年轻一代面临更加贫穷的未来Economic statistics will never fully capture the extent of the sacrifices of Britain’s youth during the pandemic. For a generation of students and pupils it was a lost chance to make friends, explore who they are and, gradually, become adults — as well as to learn, in person. In the face of the deaths in the broader population, it is easy to dismiss as frivolous the setbacks of those who missed partying, travelling and dating during the long months stuck inside but these are still years of carefree youth they will not get back. What is more, most of these privations were primarily to protect those from older generations, the most vulnerable to the coronavirus.经济统计数字将永远不能完全反映出英国青年在这场大流行病中牺牲了多少。
对于这一代学生来说，他们失去了结交朋友、探索自我并逐渐成长为人,以及亲身学习的机会。
在有人死于新冠疫情之际，我们很容易认为被困在室内长达数月而错过聚会、旅行和约会的人所经历的这些挫折无关痛痒，但这是他们再也无法重返的无忧无虑的青春时光。
2019经济学人考研英文文章阅读八
Why China is lavishing money on foreign students中国为什么对外国留学生这么慷慨Those from belt-and-road countries are particularly welcome尤其欢迎那些来自一带一路国家的人I n a restaurant in the backstreets of Beijing,12Pakistanis and Afghans studying at the China University of Communications tell stories of their arrival in China.在北京后街的一家餐馆里，12名在中国传媒大学学习的巴基斯坦和阿富汗留学生讲述了他们来到中国的故事。
No one came to pick them up;none of them spoke a word of Chinese. They have plenty of tales of getting lost,disoriented and ripped off by taxi drivers.没有人去机场接他们；他们之中没有人会说中文。
他们分享了很多关于迷路、分不清方向以及被出租车司机欺骗的故事。
The students,all but two of them ethnic Pushtuns,roar with laughter as they swap yarns and savour the cuisine from Xinjiang,a Chinese region that borders on their home countries and has cultural bonds with them.除了两名普什图族学生外，其他学生都在讲述故事、品尝新疆美食的同时开怀大笑，中国的新疆地区与他们的国家接壤，并且在文化上也有一定的联系。
2019经济学人考研英文文章阅读一一八
Driverless cars are stuck in a jam无人驾驶汽车陷入了困境Few ideas have enthused technologists as much as the self-driving car. Advances in machine learning,a subfield of artificial intelligence(AI), would enable cars to teach themselves to drive by drawing on reams of data from the real world.很少有像无人驾驶汽车这样能够激发技术人员热情的理念了。
机器学习是人工智能（AI）的一个分支，它的发展能够使汽车利用从现实世界获取的大量数据自主学会驾驶。
The more they drove,the more data they would collect,and the better they would become.Robotaxis summoned with the flick of an app would make car ownership obsolete.它们跑的路越多，收集到的数据就越多，行驶技术也会变得越好。
我们只需轻点一下应用程序，便可以召唤一辆机器人出租车到面前，私家车或将成为过去式。
Best of all,reflexes operating at the speed of electronics would drastically improve safety.Car-and tech-industry bosses talked of a world of“zero crashes”.最重要的是，电子设备速度下的反应操作将大大提高车辆的安全性。
汽车行业和科技行业的老板们甚至已经在构想一个“零事故”的世界了。
2019经济学人考研英文文章阅读九十九
Flying taxis are taking off to whisk people around cities飞的正在起飞，载着人们穿梭于城市间But regulatory hurdles still remain但监管障碍仍然存在In October1908,on a windy field at Farnborough,south-west of London, a handlebar-mustachioed former Wild West showman named Samuel Cody completed the first official controlled flight of a powered aeroplane in Britain.1908年10月，在伦敦西南部范堡罗一片狂风呼啸的旷野上，留着八字胡的前狂野西部的表演家塞缪尔·科迪在英国完成了首次正式的动力飞机控制飞行。
Since then many other pioneering aircraft,from Concorde to the giant Airbus A380,have flown at what became the biennial Farnborough air show.The aerospace centre that stages the show is now preparing for another sort of revolutionary aircraft to take to the sky.自那时起，从协和式飞机到空客巨型飞机A380的其他众多开创性飞机都参展了两年一度的范堡罗航空展。
承办今年范堡罗航空展的航空航天中心如今正在为另一种革命性飞机的升空做准备。
These new planes are variously described as flying taxis,passenger drones or,as the industry terms them,urban air mobility(UAM)vehicles.Around 200such craft are at various stages of development around the world, according to experts at Farnborough’s first global urban air summit in early September.这些新型飞机有着各种各样的叫法，例如飞的、载客无人机，或者行业专业术语所称的城市空中交通工具。
考研英语阅读理解外刊原文经济学人
Plastic surgeons make a bundle despite Lebanon’s economic crisis尽管黎巴嫩遭遇经济危机，但整形外科医生还是赚了一大笔钱Many people have no jobs. Others, nose jobs许多人失业了，除了隆鼻医生Rhinoplasty has long been a rite of passage in Lebanon. Teenage girls want a dainty new nose in time for their graduation parties, celebrated in selfies. Lebanon’s many woes have not hindered the habit.隆鼻手术一直以来都是黎巴嫩人的一种成人礼。
十几岁的女孩想要一个精致的新鼻子，以便在毕业派对上自拍庆祝。
黎巴嫩的许多苦难并没有妨碍这种习惯。
Plastic surgeons are apparently making as much as or more than they did before an economic crisis, starting in 2019, that the World Bank has ranked as the third-worst anywhere, ever.从2019年开始，整形外科医生的收入显然与经济危机（世界银行将其列为有史以来最严重的第三大经济危机）前持平，甚至更高。
The World Health Organisation reckons that Lebanon’s economic meltdown prompted nearly 40% of the country’s doctors to leave. But for those who have stayed, the pickings, especially for nose jobs, may have increased. The pool of patients has stayed the same. There are fewer dexterous doctors to paddle in it.世界卫生组织估计，黎巴嫩的经济崩溃促使该国近40%的医生离开。
考研英语19年阅读答案
考研英语19年阅读答案考研英语阅读部分一直是考生们备考的重点和难点。
2019年的考研英语阅读题目，不仅考察了考生的词汇量和语法知识，还对考生的逻辑推理能力和快速阅读能力提出了挑战。
以下是对2019年考研英语阅读部分的答案解析。
首先，考生需要掌握大量的词汇，这是理解文章的基础。
在2019年的阅读题目中，很多词汇都是高频考点，比如“innovation”、“sustainability”和“diversity”等。
考生在备考过程中，应该重点记忆这些高频词汇，以便在考试中能够迅速识别和理解。
其次，阅读理解能力的提高需要大量的练习。
2019年的阅读材料涵盖了多个领域，包括科技、教育、经济和社会问题等。
考生应该广泛阅读这些领域的文章，通过不断的练习来提高自己的阅读速度和理解能力。
在解题技巧方面，考生需要注意文章的结构和逻辑关系。
2019年的阅读题目中，很多问题都是基于文章的主旨和细节来设置的。
因此，考生在阅读时应该关注文章的开头和结尾，以及段落之间的转折词，如“however”、“furthermore”和“nevertheless”等，这些词往往提示了文章的主旨和作者的观点。
此外，考生在做题时还应该注意时间管理。
2019年的阅读部分共有四篇文章，每篇文章后面都有五个问题，总共20个问题。
考生应该合理分配时间，每篇文章大约用时15分钟，包括阅读文章和回答问题的时间。
最后，考生在备考过程中应该多做真题和模拟题，这样可以更好地了解考试的题型和难度，同时也能够检验自己的备考效果。
综上所述，2019年考研英语阅读的答案不仅需要考生具备扎实的词汇基础和阅读能力，还需要掌握一定的解题技巧和时间管理能力。
通过系统的学习和大量的练习，考生可以在考试中取得理想的成绩。
2019经济学人考研英文文章阅读一一三
Congo’s enormous rainforest is getting smaller刚果幅员辽阔的雨林正在变小Jagged,charred tree stumps jut out of blackened earth in what was once part of the rainforest in the Democratic Republic of Congo.One man, Rafael,standing amid the devastation,reckons he has set fire to around 40sections of the forest near the city of Bandundu in the past two months.一个个锯齿状烧焦的树桩矗立在一片焦黑的土地上，这里曾经是刚果民主共和国热带雨林的一部分。
一个名叫拉斐尔的男子站在这片废墟上，他估计自己在过去两个月里已经纵火烧毁了班顿杜市附近的40片森林了。
He bags the scorched wood and flogs it as charcoal in the capital, Kinshasa,some250km away.Most of the city’s12m residents,unable to afford gas or electric ovens,rely on charcoal for cooking.他把烧焦的木头打包好，然后运至250公里外的首都金沙萨并将其作为木炭进行售卖。
这座城市1200万居民中的大多数人都用不起燃气或电炉，只能烧木炭来做饭。
The Congo basin rainforest is the second biggest tropical forest in the world,after the Amazon.It stretches across six central African countries (though more than half its trees are in Congo).Its absorbent peatlands hold the equivalent of three years’worth of global carbon emissions,mitigating global warming.刚果盆地雨林是世界上仅次于亚马逊雨林的第二大热带雨林。
2019经济学人考研英文文章阅读八十九
Mass shootings大规模枪击事件America is the only rich country that has frequent mass shootings美国是唯一一个常发生大规模枪击事件的发达国家There is a simple reason for that原因其实很简单The two mass shootings within24hours of each other last weekend,one in El Paso,Texas,the other in Dayton,Ohio,were horrifying.Yet at the same time they were not surprising—at least in a purely statistical sense.So far this year America has averaged one shooting in which four or more people are killed or injured every single day.上周末，美国在24小时内分别于德克萨斯州的埃尔帕索市和俄亥俄州的代顿市连续发生了两起骇人听闻的大规模枪击事件。
然而，惊恐之余，两起枪击案并不让人感到意外，至少就统计学意义来看正是如此。
今年到目前为止，美国平均每天会发生一起至四人或四人以上死亡或受伤的枪击事件。
The death toll at the El Paso Walmart was22.And that awful number made it only the fifth-deadliest shooting this decade.The ten people killed in Dayton put the murder spree there down at number11on the same list.埃尔帕索市沃尔玛枪击案共有22名遇难者。
考研英语阅读理解外刊原文经济学人
The 19th century French philosopher Auguste Comte got it wrong: demography is not destiny.19世纪法国哲学家奥古斯特•孔德错了：人口并不决定命运。
Population trends are some of the strongest forces in economics, affecting global prosperity, the growth of individual nations and the strength of public finances. But reducing the success of countries and regions to their trends in births, deaths and migration is a simplification too far.各种人口趋势是经济学中最强大的一些力量，影响着全球繁荣、单个国家的增长和公共财政的实力。
但是，将国家和区域的成功归结于其出生、死亡和人口移徙趋势是一种过于简单化的做法。
As the coronavirus pandemic has shown, the confident predictions in 2020 of a lockdown baby boom followed by the 2021 fear of a Covid baby bust demonstrate that demographic trends are far less stable than often imagined. Small changes in fertility, mortality and migration can have immense effects.正如新冠疫情所显示的那样，2020年对疫情封锁会带来一波婴儿潮的自信预测，以及接下来的2021年对疫情会造成婴儿荒的担忧，表明人口趋势远没有通常想象的那么稳定。
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Leopard seals share their suppers
豹海豹会分享它们的晚餐
Bad news if you are a penguin
假如你是一只企鹅，这真是个坏消息
Leopard seals resemble their terrestrial namesakes in two ways.They have polka-dot pelts.And they are powerful,generally solitary carnivores that are quite capable of killing a human being if they so choose—as has indeed happened once,in2003,when a British marine biologist was the victim.
豹海豹与生活在陆地上的同名动物（豹）有着两点相似之处。
其一，它们的皮毛上都有着圆点花纹。
其二，它们都是强大的独栖性食肉动物，只要它们愿意，是完全有能力杀死一个人的——正如2003年真实发生的那样，当时一位英国海洋生物学家就成了受害者。
Curiously,though,there have also been reports of leopard seals behaving in a friendly manner towards people—apparently trying to present gifts,in the form of prey,to divers.
但奇怪的是，也有报道称豹海豹对人类表现得十分友好——它们很显然把猎物作为礼物赠送给了潜水员。
Until now,there has been no explanation for this philanthropy.But work just published in Polar Biology by James Robbins of Plymouth University, in Britain,suggests that what the seals are actually looking for is a dining partner.
到目前为止，人们还无法对豹海豹的这种善意行为做出解释。
不过，英国普利茅斯大学的詹姆斯·罗宾斯发表在《极地生物学》上的研究认为，豹海豹实际上是在寻找一个约饭的伙伴。
Mr Robbins and his team were studying leopard seals in the waters around South Georgia,an island in the Southern Ocean1,500km from the tip of the Antarctic peninsula.
罗宾斯和他的团队正在南乔治亚岛（一座位于南大洋、距离南极半岛边缘约1500公里的岛屿）附近海域对豹海豹展开研究。
Instead of diving,or watching from ships,they used drones to carry out their observations.These drones recorded hitherto unobserved behaviour on the part of the animals.
他们没有选择潜水或乘船的研究方式，而是采用无人机对豹海豹进行观察。
这些无人机记录下了迄今为止人们未曾观察到的豹海豹的行为。
First,belying their solitary reputation,the seals came together in groups to attack king penguins(twice the size of the gentoo penguin in the photograph)that were entering the sea from a rookery on the island.
首先，在独居动物名声的掩饰下，豹海豹们成群结队地对正从岛上的出生地前往大海的帝企鹅发起了进攻。
Second,when a seal did catch a penguin in these circumstances it would sometimes offer to share it with a neighbour in a way reminiscent of divers’tales of gift giving.What looked like an aberration might thus be a normal way of behaving.But why?
随后，当一只豹海豹捕捉到一只企鹅时，它有时会主动和周围的豹海豹分享猎物，这不由让人想起了豹海豹向潜水员送礼物的故事。
因此，这一看似异常的行为可能只是豹海豹的一种正常的行为方式。
但豹海豹为什么要这么做呢？
Mr Robbins’s suggestion is that sharing a penguin with a neighbour makes it easier to eat.A close look at footage the drones recorded shows that seals in such partnerships take it in turns to feed.
罗宾斯认为，与伙伴共享一只企鹅会让豹海豹的进食变得更加容易。
仔细对无人机拍摄的视频进行观察就不难发现，在这种伙伴关系中，豹海豹会轮流进食。
One holds the bird tight in its jaws while the other rips off a chunk of flesh and swallows it.Then they swap roles.By contrast,for a lone seal to reduce a penguin to bite-sized chunks means whipping the prey around in its jaws with as much force as it can muster,in order to tear lumps of flesh free from the carcass.
只见一只豹海豹咬住了猎物的嘴巴，另一只豹海豹则撕下一块肉并吞了下去。
随后它们会进行角色互换。
相比而言，一只落单的豹海豹想要从一只企鹅身上咬下一块肉来就得使出浑身解数在嘴里一顿猛嚼。
This commonly happens,but is thought to be extremely tiring.Better, therefore,to find a buddy and enjoy a meal together.
这种及其费劲的进食场景常常会发生。
因此，对于豹海豹来说，找个伙伴约上一顿饭就再好不过了。
(红色标注词为重难点词汇)
重难点词汇：
resemble[rɪ'zɛmbl]vt.类似，像
terrestrial[tə'rɛstrɪəl]adj.地球的；陆生的；人间的n.陆地生物；地球上的人philanthropy[fɪ'lænθrəpi]n.博爱，慈善；慈善事业
solitary['sɑlətɛri]adj.孤独的；独居的n.独居者；隐士
reminiscent[,rɛmɪ'nɪsnt]adj.怀旧的，回忆往事的；耽于回想的n.回忆录作者；回忆者
aberration['æbə'reʃən]n.反常现象，异常行为；偏离；行为异常的人；精神失常；畸变；像差
carcass['kɑrkəs]n.尸体；残骸；畜体。