[by:英语听力网|http://yingyu.chazidian.com||查字典英语网] [00:00.00]喜欢chazidian.com，就把chazidian.com复制到QQ个人资料中！Lesson 41 [00:01.65]第41课 [00:03.29]Television Day:The baobab tree [00:05.92]电视日:猴面包树 [00:08.54]Today our programme is about the baobab tree, [00:10.97]今天我们的节目是关于猴面包树, [00:13.40]which grows in West Africa and Australia. [00:15.62]这种树生长在西非和澳大利亚. [00:17.84]As you can see,it is a very strange-looking tree. [00:21.07]你们都看到了它的外形奇特. [00:24.29]Its enormous trunk sometimes as much as ten metres in diameter. [00:27.36]巨大的树干其直径有时可达10米. [00:30.43]It is thicker at the bottom than at the top. [00:32.86]底部比顶部粗. [00:35.29]The branches nearest the ground are very long; [00:37.56]最靠近地面的树枝很长. [00:39.84]those near the top are very short. [00:41.82]而靠近顶部的树枝很短. [00:43.81]It may be a strange-looking tree, [00:45.78]虽然它外形看上去奇特, [00:47.75]but it is extremely useful. [00:49.78]但它的用途极其广泛. [00:51.80]Its leaves are good to eat. [00:54.13]树叶味道很好, [00:56.45]Its white flowers turn into cool,juicy fruit which tastes rather like cucumber. [01:00.17]树开出的白色的花能出一种清凉多汁的水果其味似黄瓜. [01:03.90]There are such strong fibres in the bark, [01:06.08]树皮中的纤维牢度大 [01:08.26]that people can make rope and cloth from them. [01:10.48]可用来做绳子和布. [01:12.70]When a baobab gets old its trunk becomes hollow. [01:15.53]到猴面包树老了,树干就空了, [01:18.37]An old tree has such a huge,hollow trunk,that it can hold many people. [01:21.68]巨大的树洞可以容纳好多人. [01:25.00]The local people often build their houses inside these trunks. [01:27.68]当地人常在树干里造房子. [01:30.36]When it rains,water collects in the hollow [01:33.19]下雨时,水就积在树洞内. [01:36.03]The tree has such a lot of leaves and branches, [01:38.25]这种树的树叶和树枝茂盛 [01:40.47]that the water remains cool and fresh. [01:42.65]因此积下的水可保持清凉、新鲜. [01:44.83]It is such a useful tree, [01:46.55]猴面包树实用价值高, [01:48.28]some people could hardly live without it. [01:50.60]有些人离了它就不行.