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Heartbreak turtles 心碎的烏龜
Monday, Sep 04, 2006,Page 14
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Workers for the National Marine Life Center release sea turtles at Dowse𠏋 Beach in the US state of Massachusettes. 國家海洋生態中心員工在美國麻州Dowse's Beach放生海龜。 (照片：美聯社)
PHOTO: AP
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A broken heart is the feeling of being very, very sad. Not just feeling like you might cry because you got a bad grade on a test, or sad because your mother won't let you have another scoop of ice cream, but much, much sadder. But what could make a turtle so sad?
The turtles in this picture are Kemp's Ridley turtles. Many fishermen call them “heartbreak turtles.” The fishermen do not actually know if the turtles are sad, but they say that when they catch these heartbreak turtles in their nets, the turtles lie on their backs as they die in a way that makes them seem like they are dying of an intense sadness. Of course, they are actually just dying from having been caught in the net.
But if they were broken-hearted no one could blame them. These turtles are also some of the most endangered turtles in the world. These same fishermen who gave them their names have caught too many of these turtles in their nets over the years. So not only did they give them a name of sadness, they also gave them a reason to be so sad.
(Lynn Steger, Staff Writer)
心碎是一種非常非常傷心的感覺，不只是考試成績不好想哭，或是因為媽媽不讓你再吃一匙冰淇淋而難過，而是更深更痛的悲傷，但是一隻烏龜為什麼會這麼難過呢？
照片中的烏龜是肯普氏蠵龜，許多漁夫稱牠們為「心碎烏龜」。漁夫其實不知道這些烏龜是不是真的難過，他們說，當他們網捕到這些心碎烏龜時，烏龜四腳朝天的姿勢彷彿是死於劇烈痛苦，當然，牠們其實是因被捕入網才會死亡。
然而，這些烏龜要心碎也是無可厚非，牠們是全世界瀕臨絕種的烏龜之一。多年來為牠們命名的這批漁夫們用網子過度濫捕。他們不只給了這些烏龜傷感的名字，也給牠們傷心的理由。
（翻譯︰鄭湘儀）
| Today's Words 今天單字 |
1. intense adj.
強烈的 (qiang2 lie4 de5)
例: Caitlin had such an intense feeling of happiness after getting married that she couldn't stop smiling for days.
(凱特琳婚後有強烈的幸福感，幾天來臉上都有止不住的微笑。)
2. blame v.t.
責備 (ze2 bei4)
例: You can't blame other people for not being your friends if you are too afraid to ever try to talk to them.
(你如果膽怯到根本不試著跟他人說話，就不能怪他們不跟你做朋友。)
3. endangered adj.
瀕臨絕種的 (bin1 lin2 jue2 zhong3 de5)
例: If people continue to take away the places where animals live, the list of endangered animals will only get longer.
(如果人們繼續掠奪動物的棲息地，瀕臨絕動物的名單只會更長。)
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