賴世雄英語新聞聽力通 第14期:早期人類將稀有物種獵捕殆盡

(San Francisco,AP)Prehistoric human hunters,using spears and fire, drove many large animals toextinction.

(美聯(lián)社舊金山電)史前時(shí)期的獵人使用矛與火獵捕許多大型動物，迫使它們絕種。

About 13，000 years ago, large mammoths, huge antelope and very tall camels, populated North America.

大約在一萬三千年前，北美地區(qū)棲息許多體型巨大的長毛象、大羚羊與長得很高的駱駝。

All disappeared within a thousand years or so after the first Americans migrated from Asia.

第一批亞洲人遷徙到美洲之后，這些大型動物大約在一千年之內(nèi)全數(shù)消失。

They had moved across a dry land bridge between the two continents.

這些亞洲人越過連接這兩塊大陸的干陸橋來到美洲。