英语趣味阅读——动物岛

Animal Islands

Island of Turtle

About 1.000 kilometres off Ecuador on an island in the Galapagos Islands people can see huge green turtles more than one metre long.

Island of Egg

Millions of petrels come to lay eggs on a small island of forty hectares in the Seychelles Islands. People there can pick more than 4,200.000 eggs every year.

Island of Monkey

There are more than a thousand monkeys in Lingsui County on Hainan Island.

Island of Butterfly

Taiwan is called the “island of butterfly”, for more than 400 different kinds butterflies live there. More than 40,000,000 butterflies are exported every year.

Island of Spider

On a small island among the Solomon Islands there exists a kind of extraordinarily large spiders. The local inhabitants make frames with branches and let these big spiders knit nets on them. Then they use these frames as fishing nets.

Words and expressions

Ecuador n.厄瓜多尔

The Galapagos Islands加拉帕戈斯群岛

Turtle n.海龟

Petrel n.海燕

Hectare n.公顷

The Seychelles Islands塞舌尔群岛

Spider n.蜘蛛

The Solomon Islands所罗门群岛

Extraordinarily adv.格外地

Inhabitant n.居民

Frame n.框架

Knit v.编织

Translation

动物岛

龟岛——在离厄瓜多尔大约一千公里的加拉帕戈斯群岛的一个小岛上，人们可以看到一米多长的绿色大海龟。

蛋岛——几百万只海燕到塞舌尔群岛中一个只有40公顷的小岛上下蛋。那里的人们每年可以捡到420多万枚蛋。

猴岛——海南岛的陵水县有一千多只猴子。

蝴蝶岛——台湾被称作“蝴蝶岛”，因为那里生活着四百多种不同的蝴蝶。台湾每年出口四千多万只蝴蝶。

蜘蛛岛——所罗门群岛的一个小岛上有一种特别大的蜘蛛。当地居民有树枝做成架子，让这

些大蜘蛛在上面结网，然后用她来捕鱼。