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BBC新闻词汇(视频版) 第33期:Retiring elephants

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They're not the healthiest specimens of the ten thousand that live in Burma.

But thanks to the opening of this elephant retirement home, these animals do at least have a safe refuge.

The owners have brought in healthy elephants to boost funding for food and medicine through tourism.

They say visitors should see them in their natural habitat and not as creatures of entertainment.

Vocabulary:

specimens n. 试样,样本

retirement home 养老院,老人院

refuge n. 避难;避难所;庇护

to boost 推进

natural habitat 自然栖息地

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habitat ['hæbitæt]

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n. (动植物的)产地,栖息地

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boost [bu:st]

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vt. 推进,提高,增加
n. 推进,增加

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refuge ['refju:dʒ]

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n. 避难(处), 庇护(所)
v. 庇护,避

 
entertainment [.entə'teinmənt]

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n. 娱乐

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