We received a double-crested cormorant a few days ago.

几天前我们收到了一只双冠獾。

Damin usually sets off in the late afternoon and gets the cormorants ready for work.

大民通常下午晚些时候动身，并准备好捕鱼用鸬鹚。

Li is one of the cleanest rivers in China, a favorite spot for fishermen with their trained cormorants.

漓江是中国最清澈河流之一，是捕鱼者和他们训练有鸬鹚最爱捕鱼点。

But in the mid-1800s, a bird called the guanay cormorant was considered the most valuable in the world!

但十九世纪中叶，一种被称为冠鸬鹚鸟则被公认为是世界上最具价值动物！

On the tips of other trees, long-tailed cormorants, Madagascan bee-eaters and kingfishers perched, looking for food.

其他树尖上，长尾鸬鹚、马达加斯加食蜂鸟和翠鸟栖息着，寻找食物。

A cormorant may be looking for lunch, but chasing a porcupine puffer fish is all about fun.

鸬鹚也许寻找午餐，但追逐一只剌鲀纯属是为了好玩。

It's said the cormorants can keep a tally of the fish they catch, at least up to seven.

据说鸬鹚能够记住它们捕获鱼数目，至少能记住七条。

A stock image of China is a fisherman and his cormorant on a placid lake. The reality is different.

人们脑海中中国印象是平静湖面上渔民和他鸬鹚。实却大相径庭。

These days, competition for modern fishing techniques, means the Huangs can't make a living from traditional cormorant fishing alone.

而，代捕鱼技术激烈竞争意味着使黄老汉已不能仅靠鸬鹚捕鱼这一传统手段谋生了。

From the time it first hatched, each of these cormorants has been reared to a life of obedience to its master.

从出生那一刻起，每一个鸬鹚就开始被训练成为忠仆。

The cormorants bring the fish back to the boat. The fish are then taken and thrown into a big basket by Damin.

鸬鹚把鱼带回到船上。鱼被取出来，扔进大民一个大筐里。

Cormorants don't need to fly away from threats, so selection has removed the need for big wings and breastbones.

鸬鹚不需要飞离威胁，因此自然选择消除了对大翅膀和胸骨需求。

But while the guano boom was great for agriculture, it was bad news for the guanay cormorant and other seabirds that called the islands home.

虽然鸟粪为农业生产带来了巨大收益，但对于居住这些岛屿上冠鸬鹚及其它海鸟来说，这却是一个坏消息。

A few decades later, Peru started protecting the remaining cormorants — it's one of the first examples of a government stepping in to protect a natural resource.

又过了数十年，秘鲁开始保护剩余冠鸬鹚——这是政府涉足保护自然资源先例之一。

Researchers sequenced the Galapagos cormorant's genome to find out how its flightlessness evolved They found changes in the function of hair-like cellular structures called cilia.

研究人员对加拉帕戈斯鸬鹚基因组进行了测序，以了解其不会飞能力是何进化而来。他们发了称为纤毛毛发状细胞结构功能发生了变化。

He flew across the beach in his usual untidy, lopsided fashion, shrieking a few insults along the way at any cormorants that looked smaller than him.

他像往常一样凌乱、不平衡地飞过海滩，沿途对任何看起来比他小獾尖叫了几声。

Once a tree toad nearly gobbled me up, and if I ran out from the shelter of the bushes the gulls and cormorants swooped down upon me.

有一次一只树蟾差点把我吞掉，果我从灌木丛庇护所里跑出来，海鸥和鸬鹚就会猛扑过来。

The source of these outrages is known, and if they are repeated I have Mr. Holmes's authority for saying that the whole story concerning the politician, the lighthouse, and the trained cormorant will be given to the public.

这些暴行根源是众所周知， 果它们再次发生， 我有福尔摩斯先生权威说， 关于政治家、灯塔和训练有鸬鹚整个故事将被公之于众。