课文对话 · What's for supper? 晚餐吃什么？（课本 Lesson 90，印刷页 410-413）
1Fish and chips /tʃɪps/ n. 油煎土豆片 has always been a favourite dish in Britain, but as the oceans have been overfished /ˌəʊvə'fɪʃt/ v. 过度捕捞, fish has become more and more expensive.
炸鱼加炸土豆片一直是英国人喜爱的一道菜，但由于海洋被过度捕捞，鱼变得越来越贵了。
2So it comes as a surprise to learn that giant /'dʒaɪənt/ adj. 巨大的 fish are terrifying /'terɪfaɪɪŋ/ v. 吓，使恐怖 the divers /'daɪvəz/ n. 潜水员 on North Sea oil rigs /'ɔɪl rɪɡz/ n. 石油钻塔.
所以，听说巨大的鱼正使北海石油钻井平台上的潜水员感到害怕，就让人感到很意外。
3Oil rigs have to be repaired frequently and divers, who often have to work in darkness a hundred feet under water, have been frightened out of their wits by giant fish bumping into them as they work.
石油钻井平台需要经常维修，而经常要在水下100英尺的黑暗中工作的潜水员，被工作时撞到他们身上的巨鱼吓得惊慌失措。
4Now they have had special cages made to protect them from these monsters.
现在他们请人做了特别的笼子来保护自己不受这些庞然大物的侵害。
5The fish are not sharks /ʃɑːks/ n. 鲨鱼 or killer whales /weɪlz/ n. 鲸, but favourite eating varieties /və'raɪətiz/ n. 品种 like cod /kɒd/ n. 鳕 and skate /skeɪt/ n. 鳐 which grow to unnatural sizes, sometimes as much as twelve feet in length.
这些鱼不是鲨鱼，也不是虎鲸，而是人们爱吃的品种，如鳕鱼和鳐鱼，它们长得大得反常，有时长达十二英尺。
6Three factors /'fæktəz/ n. 因素 have caused these fish to grow so large: the warm water round the hot oil pipes under the sea; the plentiful supply of food thrown overboard by the crews on the rigs; the total absence of fishing boats around the oil rigs.
有三个因素促使这些鱼长得这么大：海底热油管周围温暖的海水；钻井平台上工作人员扔到海里的大量食物；钻井平台周围完全没有渔船。
7As a result, the fish just eat and eat and grow and grow in the lovely warm water.
结果是，这些鱼就在这可爱的温暖的水里吃了又吃，长了又长。
8Who eats who?
谁吃谁呢？
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