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3、问答题 Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET (10 points)

  “Elephants never forget”—or so they say—and that piece of folklore seems to have some foundation.
  The African savanna elephants, also known as the Africa bush elephants, is distributed across 37 African counties. They move between a variety of habitats, including forests, grassland, woodlands, wetlands. (46) They sometimes travel more than sixty miles to find food or water, and are very good at working out where other elephants are-even when they are out of sight. What is more, they almost always seem to choose the nearest waterhole. (47) The researchers are convinced that the elephants always know precisely where they are in relation to all the resources the need, and can therefore take shortcuts, as well as following familiar routes.
  Although the cues used by African elephants for long-distance navigation are not yet understood, smell may well play a part.
  Elephants are very choosy eaters, but until recently little was known about how they selected their food. (48) One possibility was that they merely used their eves and tried out the plants they found, but that would probably result in a lot of wasted time and energy, not least because their eyesight is actually not very good.
  (49) The volatile chemicals produced by plants can be carried a long way, and they are very characteristic: Each plant or tree has its own particular odor signature.
  What is more, they can be detected even where they are not actually visible. New research suggests that smell is a crucial factor in guiding elephants-and probably other herbivores-to the best food resources.
  The researchers first established what kinds of plant the elephants preferred either to cat or avoid when foraging freely. They then set up a food station experiment, in which they gave the elephants a series of choices based only on smell. (50) The experiment showed that elephants may well use smell to identify patches of trees that are good to eat. And secondly to assess the quality of the trees within each patch. Free-ranging elephants presumably also use this information to locate their preferred food.
  Their well-developed hippocampal structures may enable elephants, like rats and people, to construct cognitive maps.

正确答案
一种可能性是,它们只是用眼睛来试验他们发现的植物,但这可能会浪费大量的时间和精力,尤其因为它们的视力实际上不是很好。
在翻译时,我们将“merely used their eyes”翻译为“只是用眼睛”,并保留了“tried out”的尝试含义,翻译为“试验”。接着,“but that would probably result in a lot of wasted time and energy, not least because their eyesight is actually not very good” 这句话指出了这种假设的缺点,即这种方式会浪费很多时间和精力,原因之一是它们的视力不是很好。翻译时,“waste a lot of time and energy”直译为“浪费大量的时间和精力”,而“not least because”则翻译为“尤其因为”,以强调视力不好的重要性。
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