Danielle Steelの小説を二冊続けて読んだので、今度はノンフィクションを読むことにしました。選んだのは Sean B. Carrollの 'The Serengeti Rules' です。Serengetiはアフリカのタンザニアにある自然遺産となっている有名な公園があるところですね。
It is a sea of stripes. Perhaps 2,000 or more animals have gathered near a large waterhole, raising a ruckus. The zebra's calls are something between a bark and a laugh: "kwa-ha, kwa-ha," while the wildebeest seem to just mutter "huh?" These herds are stragglers from the greatest animal migration on the planet, when as many 1 million wildebeest, 200,000 zebras, and tens of thousands of other animals follow the rains north to greener grazing grounds.
"stragglers" の意味を調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: The stragglers are the people in a group who are moving more slowly or making less progress than the others.: Any straggler that fell behind or got lost in the darkness was easy prey for the enemy.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a person or animal that is last in a group to do something or the last to get to or leave a place: We watched the last of the stragglers come in, three hours after the first runner.
It is a sea of stripes. Perhaps 2,000 or more animals have gathered near a large waterhole, raising a ruckus. The zebra's calls are something between a bark and a laugh: "kwa-ha, kwa-ha," while the wildebeest seem to just mutter "huh?" These herds are stragglers from the greatest animal migration on the planet, when as many 1 million wildebeest, 200,000 zebras, and tens of thousands of other animals follow the rains north to greener grazing grounds.
"stragglers" の意味を調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: The stragglers are the people in a group who are moving more slowly or making less progress than the others.: Any straggler that fell behind or got lost in the darkness was easy prey for the enemy.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a person or animal that is last in a group to do something or the last to get to or leave a place: We watched the last of the stragglers come in, three hours after the first runner.
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