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0hello everyone
大家好
degraph here with your mid week Wednesday
我是德格拉夫，为您带来周中周三的
BBC News round
BBC新闻综述
stick with me for all of this
请继续收看
we take a look at the new species of monkey
我们来了解新猴种
find out what you can do to help bumblebees in the heat
看看高温天如何帮助大黄蜂
and do you have what it takes to be a rubik's Champ
你有资格成为魔方冠军吗？
but first what do Sean
但首先，肖恩
the sheep or Wallace and Grommet and Morph
小羊、超级无敌掌门狗、莫夫
all have in common
有什么共同点？
the answer
答案是
were they're all characters made by the world famous
它们都出自全球知名的
Aardman Animations
阿德曼动画工作室
now this year
今年
is their 50th anniversary
是他们成立50周年
so we thought it was only right to look back
所以我们理应回顾
at where it all began
他们的起源
take it away Nina
交给你了，妮娜
are we sipping comfortably
喝得还舒服吗？
mm
嗯
hmm
唔
aardman Animations is turning 50
阿德曼动画今年就50岁了
and it's definitely in the words of Wallace
正如华莱士说的
one for the album
值得纪念的一刻
because these famous characters weren't
这些知名角色并非
always household names
一直家喻户晓
oh no it all started back in the 1970s
一切始于上世纪70年代
when 2 school friends started to experiment with
当时两个同窗好友尝试制作
animation my father had a wind up cine camera
动画。我父亲有台发条电影摄像机
and I said why don't we get that out of the cupboard
我提议把它从柜子里拿出来
and set it up
架好
and just play around on the kitchen table
就在餐桌上试试
after playing around the pair
试了一阵后，两人
discovered plaster scene
发现了橡皮泥
which is when aardman's first star was born
阿德曼的首个明星就此诞生
when I think that when we started out there was David
我们刚起步时，只有大卫
me and we had the model in play and the
我，还有我们的模型，以及
16 no camera out of the whole company
全公司仅有的一台16毫米相机
it's just quite amazing how the hobby is it's sort of
真的不可思议，这个爱好居然
grown from him
发展到今天的规模
every way that you
你摆放角色的
position a body tells the audience something
每个姿势都在向观众传递信息
so in this case he's standing quite proud
比如现在他站得很挺拔
with his hands on his hips
双手叉腰
we take one picture we call that a frame
我们拍一张照片，这叫一帧
it's a terribly laborious process
这个过程非常耗时费力
but the end result is really worthwhile
但最终成果非常值得
but it was the arrival of a student from Preston
直到一名来自普雷斯顿的学生加入
when things really took off for the animation studio
工作室的事业才真正腾飞
because he brought with him 2 characters
因为他带来了两个角色
that I think you'll recognize
你肯定能认出来
I was thinking you may have a pet
我猜你可能养了宠物
probably a cat
大概率是猫
started drawing a cat but
一开始我画了猫，但
as soon as I started making the clay model
等做黏土模型的时候
it a dog just was easy to make
发现做狗更省事
we'll go somewhere where there's cheese
我们去找有芝士的地方
and it wasn't long until the inventor
没过多久，这位发明家
and his trusty dog
和他的忠犬
was scooping up the biggest prize in Hollywood
拿下了好莱坞最高奖
and the Oscar goes to
奥斯卡得主是
thank you I don't believe it
谢谢，我简直不敢相信
I'd just like to thank
我要感谢
company directors
各位公司董事
thank you
谢谢大家
and with their new shiny prize
拿到这个大奖后
the team started on their next big challenge
团队开启了下一项大挑战
a film from Chicken Run
继《小鸡快跑》之后
came the Curse of the Were Rabbits
他们推出了《人兔的诅咒》
A Matter of Loaf and Death and Shawn the Sheep Movie
还有《面包生死劫》和《小羊肖恩》
so if your family has an old camera
如果你家有闲置旧相机
knocking around the house
放在家里没人用的
why don't you give it a dust up
不妨拿出来擦干净
who knows what it could lead to
说不定能有意外收获
thanks for that Nina up next
谢谢尼娜，接下来
it's time to vote for the 2026 Tree of the Year
2026年度之树投票开始了
the annual competition run by the Woodland Truss
该年度赛事由林地信托举办
celebrates amazing trees all over the UK
表彰全英各地的神奇树木
and this year is looking at some very tough survivors
今年入选的都是超强幸存者
judges have short listed 10 trees that have
评委初选出了10棵树，它们
survived an array of challenges
都熬过了重重困难
and are all still standing strong
至今依然顽强挺立
against the odds
突破了生存极限
the short list
候选名单包括
include this amazing new tree which is growing
这棵神奇的树，它长在
straight out of the church tower in Devon
德文郡教堂的塔楼里
the L Stone Lightning Oak in Dumfries and Galloway
邓弗里斯-加洛韦的雷劈橡树
its name comes from the time
它的名字来源于
it survived the lightning strike many years ago
多年前它挺过了一次雷击
and the Bollyhook Burn Birch in County Durham
还有达勒姆郡的博利胡克桦树
which has survived hanging to a cliff face
它长在悬崖峭壁上
for decades but
已经存活了几十年，但
which will take the crown this year
今年谁能最终夺冠呢？
now they're one of the most common sights of the summer
它们是夏天最常见的景象之一
but there's growing concern
但人们越来越担忧
about britain's bumblebees
英国的大黄蜂种群
after a warning
因为有警告称
our more frequent
越来越频繁的
and intense heat waves are causing them to overheat
强热浪会导致它们体温过高
but why are they struggling and what can we do to help
它们为何生存艰难？我们该如何帮忙？
well here's the BBC's climate editor Justin Rowlett
接下来是BBC气候编辑贾斯汀·罗利特
problem is most UK bumblebees are built
问题是英国多数熊蜂的构造
for cold weather
适配寒冷气候
their furry coat is like a woolly jumper
绒毛就像厚实的羊毛衫
and their fat round bodies help them retain heat
圆胖的身形还能帮它们留存热量
they have even got a central heating system
甚至还有中央供暖系统
they can shimmer their muscles to warm themselves up
能通过抖动肌肉来给自己供暖
now that is great on a spring morning
这在春天早晨非常好用
not so great in the middle of a heat wave
但热浪来袭时就很糟糕了
if it gets too hot
如果天气太热
if the outside air temperature
如果外界空气温度
gets much above about 30 degrees
超过约30摄氏度的话
bumblebee's really struggled to fly
熊蜂就很难飞行
in very hot weather
高温天气下
they have to take shelter and if they can't fly
它们得躲起来，要是没法飞
they can't forage can't collect food
就没法觅食，收集不到食物
making it harder to rear young bumblebees
哺育幼蜂的难度也会提升
the bumblebee populations can be bolstered
想要壮大熊蜂种群
what can people at home do if they want to kind of help
普通民众在家能怎么帮忙
bumblebees in there
自家
immediate environment
周边的熊蜂
there's so much you can do at home
在家可以做的事很多
so you don't have to have a large area
你不需要有很大的空间
to have your own wildflower meadow
打造专属的野花草地
all you need is a small pot on a front door step
家门口台阶上放个小花盆就行
on a window sill fill it with native wildflower seeds
或是窗台上，种上本土野花种子
and that's providing stepping stone for wildlife
就能为野生动物提供落脚的地方
across a human dominated environment
在人类主导的环境里穿行
even a flower pot on a windowsill
哪怕只是窗台上的一个花盆
yes they're absolutely as simple as that
对，就是这么简单
you don't have to have a garden
你不需要有花园
in a hotter more volatile climate
在更热、更不稳定的气候下
the challenge is not just helping bumblebees
挑战不只是帮助熊蜂
survive the next heat wave
撑过下一次热浪
it's making sure there's enough food in the landscape
还要确保环境里有足够的食物
for them to recover afterwards
供它们之后恢复种群
now we're going to stick with the environment
接下来我们继续关注环境话题
we are off to Brazil
我们将前往巴西
Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo
伊拉克以及刚果民主共和国
for this week's stories
来看本周的报道
all about your planet
都和我们的地球有关
up first we have a new species of African monkey
首先是一种新的非洲猴类
that scientists have identified
已经被科学家确认
in the Democratic Republic of congo's rainforest
发现于刚果民主共和国的雨林中
they say that the light
他们表示，它嘴周
colored patches of skin around its mouth
有浅色皮肤斑块
its small size and its own
体型小巧，还有
unique core mean that this is a type of monkey
独特的叫声，说明这是一种
that hadn't been discovered before
此前从未被发现的猴类
it's only the 5th new monkey species
这只是第五种新发现的猴类
identified in Africa within the last 75 years
过去75年间在非洲发现的
next we head to Brazil and
接下来我们前往巴西，
to a fishing community in Aya Grand Bay
来到阿亚大湾的一个渔村
studies have found the blacktip
研究发现，黑鳍
sharks have moved to an area on the coast
鲨迁徙到了一处海岸区域
to have their young
来繁育后代
the pregnant
怀孕的
sharks may have chosen it because there is less human
母鲨选择这里是因为人类
interaction
活动少
these sharks are an endangered species
这些鲨鱼是濒危物种
so efforts are being put in
所以目前正采取措施
to protect the area and keep humans away from it
保护该区域，禁止人类进入
in order to allow them to flourish
让它们得以繁衍
lastly we are going to Iraq
最后我们前往伊拉克
where local authorities have grown a green belt
当地政府打造了一条绿化带
along a roadside in the city of Basra
位于巴士拉市的道路旁
the first phase of the project
项目第一阶段
included planted turf grass
内容包括铺设草皮
and heat tolerant trees along an 8 mile stretch
并在8英里路段种植耐热树木
a special type of grass called hybrid
所用特殊草种是杂交
Dutch turf grass has been used
荷兰草皮
because it can grow in dry conditions
因为它适合在干旱环境生长
they're also putting massive
他们还在大力
efforts to plant trees within the city streets
推进城市街道的植树工作
and local housing estates
以及居民区的绿化
to try and help provide shade
目的是提供遮阳处
to cool areas down
降低区域温度
finally welcome to the amazing world of competitive
最后，欢迎来到精彩的竞技
rubik's Cube solving
魔方世界
more than a thousand cubers from 53 countries
来自53国的上千名魔方选手
all came to the Netherlands
齐聚荷兰
for the European Championships
参加欧洲锦标赛
the 17
17项
different challenges they face included speed test
不同的挑战包括速拧
solving cubes blindfolded
盲拧魔方
and even with oven gloves on their hands
甚至戴隔热手套拧
now that really is impressive
这真的太厉害了
well done
太棒了
right that's all we've got time for
好了，今天的节目就到这里
but we shall see you tomorrow bye
我们明天见，拜
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