新概念英語第二冊
Lesson 90 What's for supper
1 . have been frightened out of their wits by giant fish bumping into them as they work.他們曾在工作時被撞到他們身上的大魚嚇得驚惶失措。
2 . So it comes as a surprise to learn that giant fish are terrifying the divers on North Sea oil rigs.因此，聽說北海石油鑽井平台上的潛水員受到巨型魚類的恐嚇，確實很讓人吃驚。
3 . Three factors have caused these fish to grow so large:這些因素促使這些魚可以長得如此巨大：
4 . the plentiful supply of food thrown overboard by the crews on the rigs;鑽井平台工作人員拋到海裡充足的食物；
5 . As a result, the fish just eat and eat and grow and grow in the lovely warm water.結果是，這些魚就在可愛的溫暖的水流中吃呀吃，長呀長。
6 . Now they have had special cages made to protect them from these monsters.現在他們有了特製的籠子，用來保護他們免受大魚的侵襲。
7 . but as the oceans have been overfished, fish has become more and more expensive.但是隨著海洋裡的濫捕濫撈，魚已經變得越來越昂貴。
8 . but favourite eating varieties like cod and skate which grow to unnatural sizes,而是深受人們喜愛的食用魚品種，如鱈魚和鰩魚，只不過它們長得出奇地大，
9 . sometimes as much as twelve feet in length.有時長達12英尺。
10 . the warm water round the hot oil pipes under the sea;海底熱的輸油管道附近的溫暖的海水；
11 . the total absence of fishing boats around the oil rigs.鑽井平台周圍根本沒有捕魚船隻。
12 . Fish and chips has always been a favourite dish in Britain,油煎魚加炸土豆片一直是英國人喜愛的一道菜，
13 . Oil rigs have to be repaired frequently and divers,who often have to work in darkness a hundred feet under water,鑽井平台需要經常修理，潛水員常常要在水面100英尺以下摸黑工作，
14 . Who eats who?究竟誰吃誰呢？
15 . The fish are not sharks or killer whales,這些魚並不是鯊魚或逆戟鯨，