賴世雄英語(yǔ)新聞聽(tīng)力通 第14期:早期人類將稀有物種獵捕殆盡

(San Francisco,AP)Prehistoric human hunters,using spears and fire, drove many large animals toextinction.

(美聯(lián)社舊金山電)史前時(shí)期的獵人使用矛與火獵捕許多大型動(dòng)物，迫使它們絕種。

About 13，000 years ago, large mammoths, huge antelope and very tall camels, populated North America.

大約在一萬(wàn)三千年前，北美地區(qū)棲息許多體型巨大的長(zhǎng)毛象、大羚羊與長(zhǎng)得很高的駱駝。

All disappeared within a thousand years or so after the first Americans migrated from Asia.

第一批亞洲人遷徙到美洲之后，這些大型動(dòng)物大約在一千年之內(nèi)全數(shù)消失。

They had moved across a dry land bridge between the two continents.

這些亞洲人越過(guò)連接這兩塊大陸的干陸橋來(lái)到美洲。