064 小考拉

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My name is Kenny and I'm a koala

我叫肯尼，是一只考拉。

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I'm native to Australia, which means that I'm originally from there

我原产于澳大利亚，意思是我来自那里。

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I eat, sleep, and live in the eucalyptus forests of Australia

我在澳大利亚的桉树林里吃、睡和生活。

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I eat only the leaves of the eucalyptus trees

我只吃桉树的叶子。

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I can eat up to five hundred grams of leaves a night

我一晚上可以吃多达五百克的叶子。

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At night, you ask? Yes, at night

你问是在晚上？是的，在晚上。

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I like to eat during the night and sleep during the day. I'm nocturnal

我喜欢在夜间进食，白天睡觉。我是夜行性动物。

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I don't drink a lot of water

我不喝很多水。

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That's because I get all the water I need from the leaves

那是因为我从叶子中获取所需的所有水分。

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In some of the native Australian languages, koala means " no drink."

在一些澳大利亚土著语言中，考拉的意思是“不喝水”。

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That's how we got our name

我们的名字就是这么来的。

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I sleep in the branches of the eucalyptus tree

我睡在桉树的树枝上。

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After I eat, I pick out a nice big branch and sleep

吃完之后，我会挑一根又大又好的树枝睡觉。

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I usually sleep twenty hours a day

我通常一天睡二十个小时。

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I sleep a lot, don't I?

我睡得很多，对吧？

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The rest of the time, I eat and move around

剩下的时间，我就吃东西和到处活动。

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I like to live up in the branches of the eucalyptus trees

我喜欢住在桉树的树枝高处。

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I have two thumbs on each paw and long, sharp claws that make it easy for me to climb up and down the tree trunks

我的每只爪子都有两个拇指，还有又长又尖的爪子，这让我能轻松地顺着树干爬上爬下。

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I can also leap from branch to branch

我还能从一根树枝跳到另一根树枝上。

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When I run out of leaves to eat, I climb down and run to another tree

当叶子吃光了，我就爬下树，跑到另一棵树上去。

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I don't like to stay on the ground too long because of cars and dangerous predators like the dingo, an Australian wild dog

我不喜欢在地上待太久，因为有汽车，还有像澳洲野犬这样危险的捕食者。

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I'm a type of animal called a marsupial

我是一种叫做有袋动物的动物。

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Other marsupials are the kangaroo, the Tasmanian devil, and the wombat

其他有袋动物还有袋鼠、袋獾和袋熊。

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Marsupials are different from other mammals because, unlike most mammals, the baby is underdeveloped when it's born

有袋动物和其他哺乳动物不同，因为和大多数哺乳动物不一样，它们的宝宝出生时发育还不完全。

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It needs to finish developing in its mother's pouch

它需要在妈妈的育儿袋里完成发育。

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You see, when a baby koala is born, it is very, very small─almost the size of a pink jelly bean

你知道吗，小考拉刚出生的时候非常非常小——差不多只有一颗粉色软糖那么大。

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Although the baby is blind and deaf, it crawls its way into the mommy's pouch

虽然宝宝看不见也听不见，但它会自己爬进妈妈的育儿袋里。

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The baby attaches itself to the mother's nipple to get food to grow big and healthy

宝宝会自己含住妈妈的乳头，吸取营养，长得又大又健康。

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A baby marsupial is called a joey

有袋动物的宝宝叫做幼崽。

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So, baby kangaroos are also called joeys

所以，袋鼠宝宝也叫幼崽。

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First, the joey develops eyes, ears, and fur

首先，幼崽会长出眼睛、耳朵和毛。

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At about five months, the joey's eyes open and it's able to peer out of the pouch

大约五个月大的时候，幼崽会睁开眼睛，能从育儿袋里往外看。

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When it is six months old, the joey gets too big for the pouch and can't fit inside

到了六个月大，幼崽长得太大，育儿袋里就装不下它了。

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When that happens, the joey rides on the back of its mother

这时候，幼崽就会骑在妈妈的背上。

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A joey leaves its mother when it becomes one year old, or when it gets a little brother or sister

幼崽在一岁大，或者有了小弟弟或小妹妹的时候，就会离开妈妈。

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In my case, I enjoyed staying with my mommy until I was one

对我来说，我很享受和妈妈一起待到一岁。

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But I was also very excited to go off on my own

但我也很兴奋能自己独立生活。

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I like to live by myself

我喜欢自己一个住。

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I'm territorial, which means that I don't like other koalas coming too close to where I live

我有领地意识，就是说我不喜欢其他考拉太靠近我住的地方。

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But if you're nice, you can visit me anytime

但如果你很友善，随时都可以来看我。