2017考研英语拓展阅读：美国发现新鱼类以“奥巴马”命名

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2017考研英语拓展阅读：美国发现新鱼类以“奥巴马”命名

　　Washington (CNN)It isn’t exactly a squid pro quo, but scientists are naming a new fish after President Barack Obama partly as a way to say thanks for his decision last month to create a new protected area off the Hawaiian coast.

　　华盛顿(CNN)它可并不是一条鱿鱼那么简单，不过，为了感谢奥巴马总统在上个月做的一个决定——在夏威夷海岸建立一个新的封闭的保护区，科学家们决定以总统奥巴马的名字命名这个新发现的鱼类。

　　National Geographic reported Friday that the maroon and gold creature, which was discovered 300 feet deep in the waters off Kure Atoll, is the only known fish to live within Papahānaumokuākea, an expanse of coral reefs and seamounts home to more than 7,000 species.

　　据《国家地理杂志》星期五报道，这种栗色和金色相间的生物，是在库雷环礁300英尺深的水域发现的，据悉在帕帕哈瑙莫夸基亚国家海洋保护区——珊瑚礁和海底山广阔的区域安家的物种超过7000多种，而这种鱼却是这里被发现的唯一鱼类。

　　One looking for the fish’s official name, however, is likely to stay hooked -- a formal description of the species isn’t expected to be published until later this year.

　　然而，当你搜索这种鱼的官方名字，可能会失望——它的正式描述可能要到今年年底才会正式发布。

　　Last week, Obama established the largest protected marine sanctuary in the world when he more than quadrupled the size of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument to protect reefs, marine life habitats and other resources. The expansion will add 442,781 square miles to the monument, making it now a total of 582,578 square miles.

　　上周，奥巴马建立了这个世界上最大的海洋保护区，这使它有之前的帕帕哈瑙莫夸基亚国家海洋保护区的四倍那么大，用来保护珊瑚礁，海洋生物的栖息地和其他资源。扩建将增加442781平方英里的保护区，使它现在一共有582578平方英里。

　　The dorsal fin coloration of the male is a circular red spot ringed with blue which scientists said reminded them of Obama’s campaign logo.

　　这条雄性的鱼，背鳍是蓝色，上面带着红色圆形点，科学家们表示会联想到奥巴马的竞选标志。

　　"It’s very reminiscent of Obama’s (campaign) logo," Richard Pyle, a marine biologist, told the magazine. "How appropriate that a fish we were thinking about naming after him anyway, just to say thank you for expanding the national monument, happens to have a feature that ties it to the President."

　　“这很容易让人想起奥巴马的竞选标志，”海洋生物学家理查德.派尔告诉媒体。“我们用奥巴马总统的名字来给这种鱼命名是多么的恰如其分，只是想感谢我们的总统扩大了自然保护区，正好又有一种生物和总统有着某种渊源。”

　　The species was discovered this past June during a research trip to Kure, the world’s northernmost atoll, National Geographic reported.

　　据《国家地理杂志》报道，这种鱼是在今年6月到库雷环礁的一次研究中发现的。它是世界是最北边的一个珊瑚礁。

　　Pyle and his colleagues later confirmed that the fish was a new species -- the first member of the genus Tosanoides found outside of Japanese waters.

　　后来，派尔和他的同事们确认这条鱼是一个新物种——原本生活在日本水域的拟姬鮨属鱼，这是在日本以外水域发现的第一个此物种。

　　This is not the first time Obama has had a fish named after him.

　　这已经不是第一次用奥巴马的名字来为鱼类命名了。

　　Scientists named an aqua and orange speckled freshwater darter found in the Tennessee River Etheostoma Obama in 2012. At the time, scientists named others of the more than 200 species of darters discovered after other presidents.

　　2012年，科学家将一种在田纳西河里发现的有浅绿色和橙色斑点的淡水镖鲈命名为奥巴马。那一次，科学家还用其他总统的名字命名了200多种镖鲈鱼。