新概念英语第二册90

90 What's for supper?晚餐吃什么？ Fish and chips has always been a favourite dish in Britain, but as the oceans have been overfished, fish has become more and more expensive. So it com, es as a surprise to learn that giant fish are terrifying the divers on North Sea oil rigs. Oil 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. Now they have had special cages made to protect them from these monsters. The fish are not sharks or killer whales, but favourite eating varieties like cod and skate which grow to unnatural sizes, sometimes as much as twelve feet in length. Three factors 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. As a result, the fish just eat and eat and grow and grow in the lovely warm water. Who eats who? 鱼和炸土豆片一直是英国人喜爱的一道菜，但是随着海洋里的滥捕滥捞，鱼已经变得越来越昂贵。因此，胚胎作为一个惊喜地获悉，巨鱼潜水员北海石油钻井平台上的。钻井平台需要经常修理，潜水员，谁经常有水下一百英尺黑暗中工作，吓坏了的巨大的鱼在工作时被撞到他们。现在他们有了特制的笼子，用来保护他们免受大鱼。这些鱼并不是鲨鱼或逆戟鲸，但人们喜爱的食用鱼品种，如鳕鱼和滑冰，长得出奇地大，有时长达十二英尺长。有三个因素造成这些鱼长这么大的暖水：海底热的输油管道；扔下的大量的食物由钻井平台工作人员；绝对没有渔船的石油钻井平台。因此，鱼只吃呀吃在可爱的暖水。究竟谁吃谁呢？