Indian Zoo Celebrates Elephant
印度动物园欢庆大象日

本则影音新闻出处：新唐人电视台英语新闻
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【新闻关键字】
1. participate in: [pɑrˋtɪsə͵pet] [ɪn] ph. 参加
2. awareness: [əˋwɛrnɪs]n. 意识、察觉
3. conserve: [kənˋsɝv] v. 保护
4. attraction: [əˋtrækʃənn. 吸引力
5. adorn with: ph. 装饰
6. jumbo: [ˋdʒʌmbon. 庞然大物
7. roam: [rom] v. 漫游（步）
8. comprehensive: [͵kɑmprɪˋhɛnsɪv] adj. 综合的
9. census: [ˋsɛnsəs] n. 统计数
10. steep: [stip] adj. 急剧升降
11. encroachment: [ɪnˋkrotʃmənt] n. 侵占
12. infrastructure: [ˋɪnfrə͵strʌktʃɚ n. 基础建设

On Monday, visitors and school children participated in “Elephant Day” at a local zoo in Orissa, India.
周一，印度游客和学生参加奥里萨邦当地动物园的“大象日”。

[Sudershan Panda, Nandankanan Zoological Park]:
“The main objective of celebrating ‘Elephant Day’ is to create awareness among the public, including the students, about how to conserve the big animal.”
“庆祝大象日的主要目的是引起大众意识，包括学生，有关如何保护大型动物。”

[Sudershan Panda, Nandankanan Zoological Park]Nandankanan动物园Sudershan Panda说：
The main attraction was two orphan elephant calves, ‘Chandan’ and ‘Anant’ who were rescued by the zoo when they were just three-months-old.
主要的吸引力是两只孤儿大象，Chandan和Anant在三个月大时被动物园拯救。

Adorned with special costumes, the jumbos were offered bananas and coconuts.
巨型象装饰着特殊服装，被提供香蕉和椰子。

[Subhashree Sahoo, Visitor]:
“By celebrating this day we feel very happy and we enjoy it a lot. We also get an opportunity to give them food.”
[Subhashree Sahoo, Visitor]游客Subhashree说：
“藉由这天的庆祝，我们感到非常高兴也很享受。我们也得到一个机会可以喂食他们。”

The event is part of Wildlife Week that began on October 2nd.
这次活动是10月2日开始的野生动物周的一部分。

Home to 50 thousand wild Asian elephants a century ago, India had just over 26 thousand jumbos roaming in its national parks and forests in 2002. However, the first comprehensive elephant census published in 2005 showed a steep drop in the numbers to just over 21 thousand.
一世纪前，印度是5万只野生亚洲象的居住地，2002年，印度只有 26,000多只巨型象，漫步在国家公园和森林里。然而，2005年第一次发表的大象全面统计显示，大象数量急剧下降，只有 21,000多只。

Most of India’s elephants live in protected forest reserves spread across 14 states from north to south of the country, but even these elephants are under pressure from human encroachment and infrastructure development activities.

大多数的印度象住在森林保謢区，地点分布在印度从北至南，横跨14个邦，但这些大象甚至是处在人类侵占和基础建设发展活动的压力下。
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