#看外刊，学英文#
It's a bright and sunny morning in Scottsdale,Arizona here at Butterfly Wonderland.
亚利桑那州斯科茨代尔的蝴蝶仙境，早晨阳光明媚。
So butterfly wonderland conservatory is 10,000 square feet of tropical paradise in the middle of the Sonoran Desert.
蝴蝶仙境温室占地1万平方英尺，是位于索诺拉沙漠中部的热带天堂。
We always have at least 70 different species of butterflies from all over the world.
我们有来自世界各地的蝴蝶，至少70个不同种类。
They come from tropical Africa, Southeast Asia, Central and South America.
它们来自热带非洲、东南亚、中美洲和南美洲。
And we get the North American butterflies from Florida.
还有来自佛罗里达的北美蝴蝶。
I appreciate even the smallest of creatures and their role in the ecosystem overall.
我甚至欣赏最小的生物，以及它们在整个生态系统中的作用。
When you watch butterflies in action, they just always look like they re having so much fun with not a care in the world.
观察蝴蝶的动作时，你会发现它们总是看起来很开心，无忧无虑。
And really they don't, because their brains,well, are very small.
实际上并不是，因为他们的大脑很小。
And they say the average lifespan for a butterfly is two weeks.
他们说蝴蝶的平均寿命是两周。
The lifespan in here is extended because the conditions are perfect.
这里的条件很好，所以可以延长寿命。
There's plenty of sunshine.The weather's always good.There's lots of food and no predators.
这里阳光充足。天气总是很好。也有很多食物，而且没有捕食者。
The UV light that we get here is so intense,and it really drives the activity of the butterflies, and it supports all of the plants.
我们在这里感受到的紫外线如此强烈，它促进了蝴蝶的活动，也维持着所有的植物。
And what it does is it creates an environment that is so inspiring and so beautiful that people are literally awestruck when they first come in here.
它所做的就是创造了一个如此鼓舞人心、如此美丽的环境，以至于人们第一次来到这里时， 感到无比震撼。
But then it makes them very receptive to learning about this ecosystem and how it kind of represents areas of our tropical world.
但是这让他们非常愿意了解这个生态系统以及它是如何代表我们热带世界的。
Good morning ladies!
早上好女士!
So those butterflies are actually feeding on a very special concoction we call "banana brew".
所以这些蝴蝶实际上是在吃-种非常特殊的混合物，我们称之为“香蕉啤酒”。
And we make it here out of overripe bananas,and dark beer and sugar.
我们用过熟的香蕉，黑啤酒和糖来制作。
That's a real butterfly party.
那是一个真正的蝴蝶派对。
And we do also have two chickens.
我们还有两只鸡。
They're really important for pest control inside the conservatory.
它们对温室里的害虫控制非常重要。
Well, butterflies are pollinators.
蝴蝶是传粉者。
They are now studying the structure of the scales on the wings.
现在，他们正在研究翅膀上鳞片的结构。
So without any scales at all, a butterfly's wings are transparent, totally clear.
所以蝴蝶的翅膀没有任何鳞片，是透明的，完全透明的。
The way the light hits it and is reflected, is what gives them their color.
光线照射和反射的方式，赋予了它们颜色。
So, those blue butterflies that just flew past here are not really blue at all.
所以，那些刚刚飞过这里的蓝蝴蝶根本就不是蓝色的。
There's some fun behavior.
还有一些有趣的行为。
I don't know if you can get that.
我不知道你们能不能找到。
When you get a number of them together,that swirling around and chasing each other,that's actually two males.
当你看到有蝴蝶聚在一起，相互追逐打转时，实际上是两只雄性蝴蝶。
So, it kind of looks like a courtship dance, but it's really more of a territorial display.
所以，这看起来有点像求爱舞蹈，但实际上更多的是领土展示。
To maintain a conservatory like this in the middle of the desert takes a lot of monitoring.
要在沙漠中央维持这样一个 温室需要大量的监控。
I spend a lot of my day making sure that the temperature is right,the humidity is right, the evaporative coolers are working, the mist system is coming on when it should.
我每天花很多时间确保温度合适，湿度合适，蒸发冷却器正常工作，喷雾系统正常工作。
Every day that I come into work is a pleasure for me.
每天.上班对我来说是一种乐趣。
I feel like one of the luckiest people in the world, and people mention this every day.
我觉得自己是世界上最幸运的人之一，人们每天都在提到这一点。
They say, 'oh you have such a great job'.
他们说，“哦， 你的工作真棒”。
And I say,’yeah I really do,' because I do I'm so lucky.
我说，“是的，我真的喜欢。”因为我喜欢，我很幸运。
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