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1 .Today we're pleased to have on the show Alice Bussell from the Dolphin Conservation Trust.

今天，我们很高兴的邀请到了来自海豚保护基金会的Alice Bussell。

2 .Tell us about the Trust, Alice.

来告诉我们关于这个基金会，爱丽丝。

1 .Well, obviously its purpose is to protect dolphins in seas all around the world.

嗯，显然其目的是为了保护来自世界各地的海洋里的海豚。

2 .It tries to raise people's awareness of the problems these marine creatures are suffering because of pollution and other threats.

它试图提高人们关于这些海洋生物因为受到污染和其他威胁而所承受的痛苦的觉悟。

3 .It started ten years ago and it's one of the fastest growing animal charities in the country although it's still fairly small compared with the big players in animal protection.

它始于十年前，并且它是我们国家中发展最快的动物慈善机构--虽然和那些大牌动物保护协会相比它仍然是相当小的。

4 .We are particularly proud of the work we do in education last year we visited a huge number of schools in different parts of the country, going round to talk to children and young people aged from five to eighteen.

关于我们在教育上做的工作，我们感到特别自豪--去年我们走访了全国不同地区的很多学校，去和五到十八岁的儿童和青少年谈话。

5 .In fact, about thirty five per cent of our members are children.

事实上，我们的成员大约35％是儿童。

6 .The charity uses its money to support campaigns for example, for changes in fishing policy and so forth.

慈善机构利用其资金来支持竞选，例如，在渔业政策上的变化等等。

7 .It hopes soon to be able to employ its first full time biologist with dolphin expertise to monitor populations.

它希望很快能够雇佣它的第一个全职的生物学家--海豚相关专业知识的--以监测它们。

8 .Of course, many people give their services on a voluntary basis and we now have volunteers working in observation, office work and other things.

当然，很多人放弃了因为这是自愿的，我们现在有志愿者在观察方面，办公室工作和其他工作的事情上面。

1 .I should also tell you about the award we won from the Charity Commission last year for our work in education.

我还要告诉你，去年慈善委员会颁了奖给我们-因为我们在教育上做的工作。

2 .Although it's not meant an enormous amount of money for us, it has made our activities even more widely publicised and understood.

虽然这对我们来说并不意味着对巨额资金，它使我们的活动被更广泛的宣传和了解。

3 .In the long term it may not bring in extra members but we're hoping it'll have this effect.

从长远来看，它可能不会给我们带来额外的成员，但我们希望它会产生这样的效果。

1 .Is it possible to see dolphins in UK waters?

有没有可能在英国水域看到海豚?

1 .Yes. In several locations.

是的。在几个地方有。

2 .And we have a big project in the east part of Scotland.

我们在苏格兰东部的一个大项目。

3 .This has long been a haven for dolphins because it has very little shipping.

这一直是海豚的一个避风港，因为它很少有船舶经过。

4 .However, that may be about to change soon because oil companies want to increase exploration there.

然而，这可能即将改变，因为石油企业要在那里加大勘探。

5 .We're campaigning against this because, although there'll be little pollution from oil, exploration creates a lot of underwater noise.

我们正在参加竞选来反对这一点，因为，虽然会从石油污染很小，勘探还是产生了很多的水下噪音。

6 .It means the dolphins can't rest and socialise.

这就意味着海豚不能休息和社交。

1 .This is how I became interested in dolphin conservation in the first place.

这就是我最初如何对海豚保护产生兴趣的。

2 .I had never seen one and I hadn't been particularly interested in them at school.

我从来没有见过一个，并且我在学校时也没有对其产生什么特别的感兴趣。

3 .Then I came across this story about a family of dolphins who had to leave their home in the Moray Firth because of the oil companies and about a child who campaigned to save them.

然后，我读到了这个故事，关于一个海豚家族，因为石油公司不得不离开它们在马里湾的家，和一个孩子竞选去拯救它们。

4 .I couldn't put the book down I was hooked.

我无法把书放下，我就迷上了。