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英国洞穴蜘蛛被“送回家”

文章来源：未知文章作者：meng 发布时间：2009-12-07 06:02 字体： [ ]　

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a colony of huge cave spiders are finally heading home after 10 years.

一群巨大的洞穴蜘蛛在实验室待了10年之后最终被送回家。

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squatting in a house for a decade

the spiders have been squatting in a disused废弃的 building in the yorkshire dales after escaping from a nearby cave, hidden in scientists' equipment.

volunteers and staff from the national trust's malham ² estate in north yorkshire are now transporting the spiders back to their natural home.

measuring seven centimetres across, the cave spiders are amongst the largest spiders found in the uk.

"the time has come for the cave spiders to be relocated back to their natural homes," says martin davies, national trust property manager for the yorkshire dales in the uk.

the old house is due to be ³更新，刷新 for use by visiting schoolchildren and walkers, mr davies explains.

stow away

ten years ago, a team of archaeologists考古学家 from the university of bradford carried out a major survey of the nearby ⁴ fell cave.

at the end of each day, they took their equipment to a nearby house to store overnight.

in doing so, they accidently carried with them spiders hiding among the equipment.

from then on, the spiders successfully set up a new colony in the small dark building.

the cave spiders meta menardi and the related meta bourneti are rarely seen beyond their natural habitat of caves and tunnels because of their aversion憎恨，嫌恶 to light.

they are active hunters and normally feed on small insects.

although harmless, they can occasionally bite if provoked激怒.

homeward bound

the spiders are collected using a contraption奇妙的装置 called a 'pooter昆虫虹吸瓶' which sucks the spider up safely into a container.

the spiders are then put into individual plastic boxes and released back into the darkness of the caves.

more than 150 spiders will make the short journey back to where they belong.

once back in the caves, the spiders won't be forgotten, mr davies says.

"we have plans to use a small outbuilding附属建筑物 as a spider house, with a window on their mysterious world."

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1
v.像动物一样蹲下( squat的现在分词 )；非法擅自占用（土地或房屋）；为获得其所有权；而占用某片公共用地。
参考例句：
they ended up squatting in the empty houses on oxford road. 他们落得在牛津路偷住空房的境地。 they've been squatting in an apartment for the past two years. 他们过去两年来一直擅自占用一套公寓。来自《简明英汉词典》

2
n.山中的小湖或小潭
参考例句：
this pool or tarn was encircled by tree!这个池塘，或是说山潭吧，四周全被树木围了起来。 the deep and dark tarn at my feet closed over the fragments of the house of usher.我脚下深邃阴沉的小湖将厄谢尔古屋的断垣残墙吞没了。

3
翻新，修复，整修( renovate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
he renovated his house. 他翻修了房子。 the house has been renovated three years earlier. 这所房子三年前就已翻新。

4
n.小教堂，殡仪馆
参考例句：
the nimble hero,skipped into a chapel that stood near.敏捷的英雄跳进近旁的一座小教堂里。 she was on the peak that sunday afternoon when she played in chapel.那个星期天的下午，她在小教堂的演出，可以说是登峰造极。