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刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-08-21
难易度:Medium
关键字:frequently, severe, mourn, tense, immunity, veterinarian, diarrhea


























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Today we are on the third day of our article - How to Raise an Elephant.
And today we found out some very sad news about Moses and his story.
We learned that he frequently got sick because of severe diarrhea, and he just
wasn't able to get over it.
So Jenny and her friends still mourn this little elephant that touched their
lives.
But we don't need to be sad about Moses because it has led to the formation of a
wonderful foundation that will continue to help other animals.
Let's read some more about that now.
(Music).
How to Raise an Elephant.
"Elephants are very sensitive and pick up on your emotions,
if you are sad they comfort you, if you are stressed they are tense, if you are
ill they are loving," Jenny said.
At the moment, the Jumbo Foundation has no elephants to care for.
But as elephant poaching remains a serious problem, Jenny will no doubt take in
more orphans in the future.
What Jenny learned from caring for Moses will help her when the next orphan
comes along.
(Music).
Well, you know, life is all about learning.
We're constantly learning from our experiences, sometimes from our mistakes as
well as our successes.
Let's go back to the beginning of this section here.
"Elephants are very sensitive and pick up on your emotions,
if you are sad they comfort you, if you are stressed they are tense, if you are
ill they are loving," Jenny said.
OK. So Jenny and her friends who are... have been mourning Moses, she is
describing elephants now.
She's describing Moses for us.
Yes, she is.
And it seems like elephants are very caring animals.
When you think about an elephant, you think about this huge animal that might be
a little bit scary to be around because it is so large.
But actually, elephants are very "gentle and loving," as Jenny has said.
They are very sensitive and they pick up on your emotions.
Now if they pick up on something, what does that mean, Gabe?
That's a great question.
When you pick up on someone's emotions, that means you can sense that there's
something going on.
You're not sure because... because they haven't said anything.
But you can sense it, you can pick up on someone's emotions.
If you're a very sensitive person, then you can also pick up on your friends'
emotions around you.
That's right.
Well, apparently when elephants are around you, they can tell when you feel sad,
and they want to comfort you.
They want to make you feel better.
And if you are stressed, they are tense.
Now if you feel stressed, you might also be tense, and they feel tense with you.
So let's look at that word from our Word Bank.
If you are tense, then you are nervous.
You're a little bit upset and not sure what to do.
Exactly. You're a little bit tense.
This is exactly the opposite of the word "relaxed." Of course you like to feel
relaxed, not nervous.
But sometimes you might be working on something or have no free time, you're
very busy and you just get very tense.
If this happens, maybe you need a massage.
Maybe you have tense shoulders.
And someone might say: Ooh, your shoulders are very tense.
You should relax more.
Yes.
So don't worry.
Relax, don't be tense.
But this little elephant would know if you were, and he would be tense with you.
Now Jenny said also that if you are ill, so if you're sick, something is wrong,
they are very loving and they care about you.
And that brings us to the topic that Steve and Ken would like to share with us
in the Information Cloud on sympathy versus empathy.
Elephants might be emotionally sensitive animals, but are they capable of
sympathy?
How about empathy?
Sympathy and empathy.
Most English speakers would be hard-pressed to make the distinction between
these two words.
Both share the same Greek root "pathos," meaning emotion.
But there is an important difference in their emotional meaning.
Right.
To help explain things, let's pretend your best friend loses her job.
A sympathetic response would be acknowledging your friend's emotional suffering
by comforting her with kind words and deeds.
The empathetic response, however, would be stepping into your friend's shoes, so
to speak, and imagining what it would be like to lose your job even for just a
brief moment.
Sympathy says: I'm sorry for you.
What can I do to help you through this difficult time?
Empathy says: I'm sorry with you.
I totally understand what you're going through.
Sympathy says: You poor dear, I see that you're hurting.
While empathy says: I feel what you feel.
I'm in this with you.
So then, with this in mind, we can conclude that elephants are capable of
sympathy and empathy with humans.
They can comfort us and feel what we feel.
That's amazing!
(Chinese).
Thank you, guys.
So of course we know that elephants sympathize and empathize with people.
Well, we continue learning about this.
At the moment, the Jumbo Foundation has no elephants to care for.
OK.
So aside from Moses, I don't know if they had other elephants.
They have lots of other large animals.
But right now they have no elephants to care for.
Let's learn something about this sentence with Liz in the Grammar Gym.
Hello, friends.
Thanks for joining me here at the Grammar Gym.
My name is Liz.
We see this sentence in today's article:
At the moment, the Jumbo Foundation has no elephants to care for.
That's our Grammar Tip sentence.
Our focus is on the phrase: at the moment.
It's just a nice way to say "right now." In other words, right now the Jumbo
Foundation has no elephants to care for.
Use this phrase "at the moment" when you want to describe a situation happening
now.
For example:
At the moment, the restaurant is full and we will have to wait an hour.
Or: The manager is not here at the moment but will return to the office this
afternoon.
If you have a copy of this month's magazine with you, be sure to check out
today's Grammar Tip section for more example sentences.
That's all the time we have for today.
This is Liz from the Grammar Gym.
See you next time.
Thank you, Liz.
At the moment, we are going to continue learning about this organization.
And right now they don't have any elephants to care for.
But as elephant poaching remains a serious problem, Jenny will no doubt take in
more orphans in the future.
So it is very possible that they will have many more elephants in the future.
But for right now, they don't have any.
And maybe that is OK since taking care of a baby elephant is very, very
time-consuming.
That's right.
It is a lot of work.
But there is still a problem.
Poaching still remains a problem.
If it remains a problem, that means the problem is still there. OK.
Poaching is a problem in many countries.
There are tons of poachers out there illegally hunting and killing and capturing
animals.
So we see a sentence here - Jenny says that she will no doubt take in more
orphans in the future.
Let's take a look at that phrase "no doubt." OK.
No doubt. That means there is no doubt about this.
There's no question about this.
It will happen.
Yes. So it will definitely or certainly occur in the future.
There is no doubt because it is still a problem.
And Jenny has started this organization for baby elephants.
It is even called the Jumbo Foundation Elephant Orphanage.
So I'm sure she is very eager and excited to be able to take care of more
elephants in need.
I think so, too.
She will do this without a doubt.
So of course I hope that they can help many other animals as well.
Now we continue here.
What Jenny learned from caring for Moses will help her when the next orphan
comes along.
Of course we always can learn from our experiences in the past.
And she's going to be able to help out even better when the next large animal
orphan comes along.
And that is a very wonderful thing especially since Moses was the first elephant
she'd ever tried to care for.
I'm sure that she and the people that she works with, her friends, everyone that
she has hired to help with the organization have all learned a lot from caring
for this baby elephant Moses.
It's true.
Well, friends, I've enjoyed learning about Jenny Webb and her organization about
how she cared for Moses and cares for other large animals.
And of course, if you are curious about elephants and you haven't yet, you can
open up your magazine and read those elephant facts on page 37.
Right now it's time for us to continue learning something with Michelle in the
Language Lab.
OK.
(Chinese).
And it's time to go back to our teachers.
OK. Well, we've had a great time learning about the Jumbo Foundation Elephant
Orphanage and everything that Jenny and her friends do there.
They're protecting and helping to save young large animals.
And of course some of these animals are there because their parents were
poached.
A lot of large animals, or a lot of animals are poached.
This is not a good thing.
I wonder what other animals out there are being poached.
Carolyn, can you think of any other animals?
Well, there are quite a few, and many of them are large animals.
Actually, the animals that we wanted to take care of are among them - tigers,
cheetahs, lions and even sea turtles, giant turtles, rhinos...
There are so many animals that are just being hunted when their numbers are
already so few.
It's true.
Actually, about rhinos, I found out that last year, just last year in 2012, 668
rhinos were hunted and killed.
And actually already this year, it's almost at a rate of two per day.
So this is still a serious problem.
It remains a problem even today.
What can we do to help?
Well, there are many organizations that you can go and find out how you can
help.
Maybe you can even send in money or funds.
There are different ways to help.
Thank you for joining us today.
And we'll see you next time right here at Studio Classroom.
See you then.