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散步減肥 Take a walk to lose weight

A group of penguins at a zoo in Japan take a walk to lose weight. Every day, 15 king penguins there walk 500 meters twice. “Just like human, penguins don't exercise much during winter. They become fat easily,” says a zookeeper.

在日本的一個動物園裏一羣企鵝在散步減肥。哪裏的15只金企鵝媒體散步兩次，每次500米。 動物園工作人員説：“和人類一樣，企鵝冬天不怎麼運動，容易發胖。”

聰明的熊貓 A Clever Panda

A little panda picks up a pumpkin and wants to take it home. But the pumpkin is too big. The panda can't take it home.

一隻小熊貓摘了一隻大南瓜，想把它拿回家。但是這隻南瓜太大了，她沒有辦法把這麼大的南瓜帶回家。

Suddenly she sees a bear riding a bike toward her. She watches the bike. “I know! I have a good idea.” she jumps and shouts happily, “I can roll a pumpkin. It's like a wheel.”

突然她看見一隻狗熊騎着一輛自行車朝她這邊來。她看着自行車，跳着説：“有了!我有辦法了。我可以把南瓜滾回家去。南瓜好像車輪。”

So she rolls the pumpkin to her home. When her mother sees the big pumpkin, she is surprised, “Oh, my God! How can you carry it home?” the little panda answers proudly, “I can't lift it, but I can roll it.” Her mother smiled and says，“What a clever girl! Use you heard to do something,”

於是她把那瓜滾回家。當她媽媽看到這隻大南瓜的時候，很驚訝：“天啊!這麼食的南瓜!你是怎麼把它帶回家來的?”小熊貓自豪地説;“我拎不動它，可是我能滾動它啊!”她媽媽微笑着説：“真聰明啊!記住：只要你肯動腦筋，沒有難辦的事。”

冬眠 Hibernation

Hibernation is more than sleep. It is a very deep animal's temperature drops to just over zero centigrade,and its heart beats very slowly. People who find hibernating animals asleep often think that they are dead: the body feels very cold, and the creature may breathe only once every five minutes. A hibernating animal cannot feel any pain. You can touch it, or even pull its tail, without causing it to move or wake up. In its hibernating state it can even live in a poisonous atmosphere for a long time without any ill effect.

冬眠不僅僅是睡眠，而是一種沉睡。動物的體温降到剛好在零攝氏度以上，心臟跳動非常緩慢。人們看到處於冬眠狀態的動物，常常以為它們是死的：身體摸上去冰涼，可能每5分鐘才呼吸一次。冬眠的動物感覺不到任何疼痛。你可以摸它，拉它的尾巴，也不能使它動一動或醒過來。當它處於冬眠狀態時，甚至可以長時間地生活在有毒空氣中而無任何不良後果。

Hibernating in this way, the animal can sleep all through the winter. You might wonder how it manages to live without eating for so many months. The answer lies in two facts. Thefirst is that it has stored supplies of fat in its body during the summer and autumn. The second is connected with the main use the body makes of food -- to supply the energy for movement. We have seen that hibernating animal reduces movement to far below the ordinary level. Even the movements of the heart and lungs are greatly reduced. The animal hardly makes any movement, hardly use any energy, and hardly needs any food.

用這樣的方式越冬，動物可以睡過整個冬天。你或許會覺得奇怪，它好幾個月不吃東西，怎麼活過來的呢?可以從兩方面的事實中得到答案。第一，在夏秋季節，動物體內儲存大量的脂肪。第二是與食物對身體的主要用途，即食物供