Elephants
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents The Largest Land Animal.
内容列表 最大陆地动物.
4 Elephant Bodies.
4大象体.
5 Elephant Families.
5个象族家庭.
8 Food and Water.
8"食物与水".
11 Keeping Elephants Alive.
11"让大象活着".
14 Glossary.
14 词汇表。
16 Index.
16 指数。
16 The Largest Land Animal Did you know that elephants are the largest land animals in the world?
16 最大的陆地动物 你知道大象是世界上最大的陆地动物吗?
I saw an amazing picture of a mother elephant with her baby.
我看见一幅惊人的照片 母象带着她的孩子。
I wanted to learn more about elephants, so I checked out a book from the library.
我想更多地了解大象,所以从图书馆里查了一本书.
I learned many unusual facts about elephants that I can share with you.
我学到了很多关于大象的不寻常的事实,我可以告诉你.
This elephant mom and her baby live in Africa.
这头大象妈妈和她的孩子住在非洲
This elephant mom and her baby live in Asia.
这只大象妈妈和她的孩子生活在亚洲.
Elephant Bodies If you’ve ever seen an elephant in a zoo, you know they are huge.
大象躯体 如果你在动物园里见过一头大象,
An adult male can weigh as much as six cars.
成年雄性可重达6辆.
I definitely don’t want an elephant to sit on me!
我绝对不想大象坐在我身上。
Elephants have heavy gray bodies, thick legs, wrinkled skin, and floppy ears.
大象有重灰色的躯体,有厚的腿,有皱纹的皮肤,有软耳.
Many elephants also have a pair of tusks, which are long, pointed teeth.
许多大象还拥有一对长而尖的牙齿.
Elephants use their tusks to peel the bark off trees and to dig for minerals.
大象用长牙从树上剥去树皮并挖出矿物.
One really interesting part of an elephant is its long trunk.
大象的一个真正有趣的部分是它的长树干。
An elephant’s trunk is its nose and upper lip joined together into a special shape.
大象的树干是它的鼻子和上唇结合成一个特殊的形状.
An elephant can use its trunk like a hand to pick up food or other objects.
大象可以像手一样使用它的后车厢来取取食物或其他物品.
The trunk works like a hose when an elephant drinks water or gives itself a shower.
当一头大象喝水或给自己洗澡时,树干的工作就像水管.
A trunk can even work like a snorkel, helping an elephant breathe underwater.
树干甚至可以像吸管一样工作,帮助一头大象在水下呼吸.
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
An elephant’s trunk has no bones, but it has thousands of muscles.
大象的树干没有骨头,但有上千个肌肉。
An elephant can lift a tree or pick a flower with its trunk.
大象可以举起一棵树或用树干摘取一朵花.
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
Elephants have the largest ears of any animal.
大象拥有任何动物最大的耳朵.
They use their ears to hear, swat insects, cool off, and show their feelings.
他们用耳朵来听 吸食昆虫 冷却 并展示他们的感受
I read about two kinds of elephants.
我读了两种大象
One kind lives in Africa, and the other kind lives in Asia.
一种生活在非洲,另一种生活在亚洲。
Here’s what I learned about their differences.
我从中了解到他们的分歧。
Elephant Families Elephants live in families of four to ten females and their young.
大象家庭 大象生活在有4到10个雌性和年幼的家庭中.
The females, called cows, are all relatives—grandmothers, mothers, aunts, sisters, and daughters.
被称作母牛的雌性都是亲戚——外祖母、母亲、姨妈、姐妹和女儿。
A wise old female called the matriarch (MAY-tree-ark) is the leader of the family.
一位名叫"母权"(MAY-tree-ark)的有智慧的老女人是家族的领袖.
She helps her family find food and water.
她帮助她的家人找到食物和水.
She also keeps the family together and helps everyone stay safe.
她也把家庭团结在一起,帮助每个人保持安全.
The matriarch of this family of African elephants will teach the young ones where to find food and water.
这个非洲大象家族的母系将教给年轻人在哪里找到食物和水。
Male elephants stay with their mothers until they are about 11 years old—teenagers, in elephant years.
雄性大象与母亲在一起,直到他们大约11岁,在大象年代。
Then they go to live with other males.
然后他们去和其他男性一起生活。
Adult males, called bulls, often live alone except when they mate with females.
成年雄性,被称作"公牛",除与雌性交配外,常单独生活.
Sometimes bulls use their tusks to fight each other for a female.
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Baby elephants, called calves, are incredibly cute!
婴儿大象,叫小牛,真可爱!
When a calf is born, everyone in the family strokes it with his or her trunk to welcome it.
小牛出世后,全家所有人都用后车厢来打来欢迎.
All the adults help care for the calves.
所有成年人帮助照顾幼崽。
If a calf gets stuck in the mud at a water hole, everyone helps pull it out.
如果一只小牛被困在水洞的泥地上,每个人都会帮忙把它拔出.
If a lion is near, the adults stand in a circle around all the calves to protect them.
如果一头狮子靠近,成年人会站在一圈环绕所有的幼崽来保护他们.
These male elephants are fighting.
这些雄性大象在战斗.
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort, just as young children sometimes suck their thumbs.
婴儿大象为舒适而吸干他们的后车厢,正如幼儿有时会吸取他们的拇指.
Food and Water Elephants are herbivores (UR-beh- vores), or plant eaters, and they like many kinds of food.
食物和水象是食草动物(UR-beh-vores),或植物食用人,它们喜欢多种食物.
They eat grass, leaves, bark, branches, fruit, flowers, and seeds.
它们吃草,叶,树皮,树枝,水果,花卉和种子.
Elephants are always on the move, looking for food and water.
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They eat so much that they can’t stay in one place for very long.
他们吃得太多,
When they leave an area, the plants have time to grow back.
当它们离开一个区域时,植物有时间生长回来.
Sometimes three or more families of elephants join together to form a herd.
有时有3个或更多个大象家族会联合成群.
A herd may travel together to look for food and water.
牧群可以一起出行去寻找食物和水.
Elephants often walk in single file with each family following its matriarch.
大象经常跟随其母后与每个家庭一起以单行本行走.
They follow the same routes year after year as they move from place to place.
它们年复一年地沿同一条路线行走,从一地向一地移动.
These elephants walk in single file as they move to a new area.
这些大象在移动到新区域时以单一文件行走.
This elephant uses its trunk to get food high in a tree.
这只大象用树干在树上取出高高的食物.
Elephants need to drink water, just like people.
大象需要喝水 就像人一样