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第一段
1 .Well, most people think that lions only come from Africa.
大多数人认为狮子来自非洲。
2 .And you would be forgiven for thinking this, because in fact most lions do come from Africa.
原谅你们的想法，因为事实上大多数狮子来自非洲。
3 .But this hasn't always been the case.
但这并不是一直的情况。
4 .If we go back ten thousand years we would find that there were lions roaming vast sections of the globe.
如果我们回去一万年，我们会发现，有狮子遍布世界各地的绝大的部分。
5 .But now, unfortunately, only very small sections of the lions' former habitat remain.
但现在，不幸的是，只有非常小的部分的狮子的栖息地保持。
第二段
1 .My particular interest is Asiatic lions, which are a sub - species of African lions.
我特别感兴趣的是亚洲狮，这是一种非洲狮子。
2 .It's almost a hundred thousand years since the Asiatic lions split off and developed as a sub - species.
由于亚洲狮分裂作为一个亚种已经快十万年了。
第三段
1 .At one time the Asiatic lion was living as far west as Greece and they were found from there, in a band that spread east through various countries of the Middle East, all the way to India.
在某一时间发现亚洲狮生活在西部遥远的希腊，在一个海岸，向东延伸通过中东各国，一直到印度。
2 .In museums, you can now see Greek coins that have clear images of the Asiatic lion on them.
在博物馆里，你可以看到希腊硬币上有亚洲狮的清晰图像。
3 .Most of them are dated at around 500 B.C.
他们中的大多数在公元前500年左右，
4 .However, Europe saw its last Asiatic lion roaming free two thousand years ago.
但，欧洲最后看到亚洲狮自由漫步是二千年前。在接下来的十九年在其他地区的亚洲狮的数量稳步下降，
5 .Over the next nineteen hundred years the numbers of Asiatic lions in the other areas declined steadily, but it was only in the nineteenth century that they disappeared from everywhere but India.
直到第十九世纪，他们消失在除了印度的其他地区。
第四段
1 .So, how can you tell an Asiatic lion from an African lion, with which you're probably more familiar?
所以，你怎么能分辨亚洲狮和非洲的狮子，而你可能更熟悉非洲狮?
2 .Well, in general, Asiatic lions are not as big as African lions.
嗯，一般来说，亚洲狮没有像非洲狮子一样大。
3 .The colour is more or less the same, but the appearance of the mane is different - that's the hair around the lion's face and neck.
颜色是差不多的，但是鬃毛外观不同的是，在狮子的脸和脖子上的毛。
4 .The Asiatic lion's mane is noticeably shorter than the African lion's.
亚洲狮子的鬃毛明显短于非洲狮。
5 .Asiatic lions also have a long fold of skin on their undersides, whereas not many African lions have this.
亚洲狮也有很长的褶皱的皮肤在腹部，这并不是许多非洲狮子有的。
第一段
1 .Well, I'd like to talk to you now about the Gir Sanctuary in India.
嗯，我想和你谈谈关于印度的吉尔避难所。
2 .That's where I've just come back from.
那是我刚刚回来的地方。
3 .The sanctuary was established specifically to protect the Asiatic lion.
保护区是专门为保护亚洲狮建立的。
4 .It's 1,450 square kilometres in area and most of it is forest.
面积1450平方公里，大部分是森林。
5 .There are now around three hundred Asiatic lions in India and almost all of them are in this sanctuary.
现在在印度大约有三百的亚洲狮，几乎所有的都在这个避难所。
第二段
1 .But despite living in a sanctuary, which makes them safe from hunters, they still face a number of problems that threaten their survival.
但是，尽管生活在一个庇护所，这使得他们不被猎人捕杀，他们仍然面临着一些问题，威胁他们的生存。
2 .One of these is the ever - present danger of disease.
其中一个是有史以来最危险的疾病。
3 .This is what killed more than a third of Africa's Serengeti lions in 1994, and people are fearful that something similar could happen in the Gir Sanctuary and kill off many of the Asiatic lions there.
这是1994年杀死了超过三分之一的非洲塞伦盖蒂狮子，人们担心类化的事情会发生在吉尔避难所，杀死许多那里的亚洲狮。
第三段
1 .India's lions are particularly vulnerable because they have a limited gene pool.
印度的狮子特别容易受到伤害，因为它们只有一个有限的基因库。
2 .The reason for this is interesting - it's because all of them are descended from a few dozen lions that were saved by a prince who took a particular interest in them.
原因是有趣的，因为所有的狮子都是被一位王子救了下来，他们对他们有特别的兴趣。
3 .He was very wealthy, and he managed to protect them - otherwise they'd probably have died out completely.
他很富有，他设法保护他们，否则他们可能已经完全灭绝了。
第四段
1 .When you see the Asiatic lion in India, what you sense is enormous vitality.
当你看到印度的亚洲狮，你感觉什么是巨大的生命力。
2 .They're very impressive beasts and you would never guess that they had this vulnerability when you look at them.
他们是非常令人印象深刻的野兽，当你看他们，你永远不会猜到，他们如此脆弱。
第五段
1 .The Asiatic lions don't have the Gir Sanctuary to themselves, I should add.
亚洲狮没有吉尔避难所庇护自己，我要补充。
2 .They actually share it with about two thousand farmers.
他们实际上与大约二千名农民分享它。
3 .A significant proportion of the lions' diet is made up of the livestock of these farmers - goats, chickens and so on - as much as a third, in fact.
实际上，狮子的饮食中很大的比重是由这些农民的牲畜一山羊，鸡等等组成的一甚至高达三分之一。
4 .And they've even been known to attack humans, especially in times of drought.
据闻他们甚至会攻击人类，特别是在干旱时期。
第六段
1 .One final piece of interesting information in ancient India one of the greatest tests of leadership for a man was to fight a lion.
最后一条有趣的信息一在古代印度的一个最大的领导力的考验，是打一头狮子。
2 .Now it seems, in modern India it will be a great test to see if the lion can be saved.
现在看来，在现代印度，看看能否拯救狮子，将是一个很大的考验。
3 .I'm sure this is something that all of you will share concern for too.
我敢肯定这是你们所有人都会关心的事情。