「Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.」
– Benedict Cumberbatch, Actor
「享受人生的旅途，而不是只有結果。」
– 班奈狄克·康柏拜區 (演員)
According to the study, rats have decimated seabird populations across 90 percent of the world’s island archipelagos. Professor Nick Graham of Lancaster University in Britain says at a recent visit at the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean, there were stark differences between the islands populated with rats compared to the ones that were rude and free.
根據該研究，老鼠的存在導致全球90%群島上的鳥類數量減少。尼克·格雷厄姆教授來自英國蘭開斯特大學，他在最近到訪印度洋的查戈斯群島時表示，有大量老鼠的島嶼和一片蠻荒的島嶼是迥然不同的。
Where there’s rats, the sky’s empty, the island’s very quiet. You go to an island with no rats, the sky’s full of sea birds, it’s very noisy and it smells. It’s very pungent. You can smell the guano or the bird poo in the air. The scientists found guano which is sometimes used as fertilizer to be crucial to the functioning of tropical ecosystems.
有老鼠的地方，天空空蕩蕩的，島上也悄無聲息。而沒有老鼠的島上，天空中都是海鳥，四處喧囂，而且味道非常刺鼻。空氣中都瀰漫著鳥糞的味道。而此前，科學家發現，鳥糞有時候可以用作肥料，對於熱帶生態系統的運作至關重要。
The seabirds, they’re flying great distances away from the islands, and they’re feeding in what we call the pelagic ecosystem, so the deep areas of the ocean. And then there they’re flying back to the islands to roost and to breed, and that’s when they’re depositing these rich nutrients that they』ve captured in the open ocean back onto the islands.
海鳥飛翔的時候離島很遠，在遠洋生態系統中覓食，也就是海洋深處。然後它們會飛回島嶼棲息繁衍。與此同時，它們將在海裡獲得的豐富營養留在島嶼上。
Now when those nutrients go onto the coral reef which was showing that it’s boosting the productivity and the functioning of those reefs, rats eat bird eggs, chicks and even adult birds. Rat-free Islands saw significantly more sea bird life and had nitrogen in the soil which made its way into the sea benefiting filter-feeding sponges, turf algae and fish.
這些營養物質會進入珊瑚礁中，這表明鳥類可以提高珊瑚礁的生產力和功能，但鼠類會吃掉鳥蛋、雛鳥、甚至成年鳥類。沒有老鼠的島嶼上，鳥類數量會有大幅增長，土壤中也有很多氮元素，而當氮元素進入大海中之後，又有助於濾食性海綿動物、草皮藻類和魚類的生長。
Fish, unique in coral reefs and that they provide important processes or functions that help reefs be healthy and to bounce back from disturbances. These are things like clearing away algae following disturbances, so new corals can settle and grow back on the reef. The number of fish was also 50 percent greater in the waters of rat-free islands.
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魚類對於珊瑚礁而言有獨特的作用，它們可以進行重要的流程，承擔著重要的功能，可以幫助珊瑚保持健康的狀態，即便受到外界幹擾也能迅速恢復。這些作用就像是幫助海藻從幹擾中恢復，這樣，新的珊瑚就可以在珊瑚礁上落腳並生長。與有老鼠的島嶼相比，魚類數量多了50%。
感謝收聽米格爾發回的報導。
de‧ter‧mined /dɪˈtɜːmɪnd $ -ɜːr-/ ●●○ W3 adjective1 having a strong desire to do something, so that you will not let anyone stop you 有決心的；意志堅定的 Gwen is a very determined woman. 格溫是個意志很堅定的女性。determined to do something She was determined to win. 她決意要獲勝。determined (that) He was determined that the same mistakes would not be repeated. 他決心不重蹈覆
2 showing determination, especially in a difficult situation 〔尤指在困境中〕堅決的，堅定的determined attempt/effort She was making a determined effort to give up smoking. 她在下決心努力戒菸。 The library was closed down despite determined opposition. 儘管遭到堅決的反對，圖書館還是被關閉了。
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1、本期名言欄目取
班奈狄克·康柏拜區 (1976- ) 是英國演員，演藝觸角涉及電視劇、電影以及劇場，主演過電視電影《霍金》、電視劇《新世紀福爾摩斯》、電影《模仿遊戲》，贏得多項獎項，包括艾美獎最佳男主角獎、Britannia Awards 英國年度藝人獎。
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