07.22.2026

hello everyone 大家好 degraph here with your mid week Wednesday 我是德格拉夫，为您带来周中周三的 BBC News round BBC新闻综述 stick with me for all of this 请继续收看 we take a look at the new species of monkey 我们来了解新猴种 find out what you can do to help bumblebees in the heat 看看高温天如何帮助大黄蜂 and do you have what it takes to be a rubik's Champ 你有资格成为魔方冠军吗？ but first what do Sean 但首先，肖恩 the sheep or Wallace and Grommet and Morph 小羊、超级无敌掌门狗、莫夫 all have in common 有什么共同点？ the answer 答案是 were they're all characters made by the world famous 它们都出自全球知名的 Aardman Animations 阿德曼动画工作室 now this year 今年 is their 50th anniversary 是他们成立50周年 so we thought it was only right to look back 所以我们理应回顾 at where it all began 他们的起源 take it away Nina 交给你了，妮娜 are we sipping comfortably 喝得还舒服吗？ mm 嗯 hmm 唔 aardman Animations is turning 50 阿德曼动画今年就50岁了 and it's definitely in the words of Wallace 正如华莱士说的 one for the album 值得纪念的一刻 because these famous characters weren't 这些知名角色并非 always household names 一直家喻户晓 oh no it all started back in the 1970s 一切始于上世纪70年代 when 2 school friends started to experiment with 当时两个同窗好友尝试制作 animation my father had a wind up cine camera 动画。我父亲有台发条电影摄像机 and I said why don't we get that out of the cupboard 我提议把它从柜子里拿出来 and set it up 架好 and just play around on the kitchen table 就在餐桌上试试 after playing around the pair 试了一阵后，两人 discovered plaster scene 发现了橡皮泥 which is when aardman's first star was born 阿德曼的首个明星就此诞生 when I think that when we started out there was David 我们刚起步时，只有大卫 me and we had the model in play and the 我，还有我们的模型，以及 16 no camera out of the whole company 全公司仅有的一台16毫米相机 it's just quite amazing how the hobby is it's sort of 真的不可思议，这个爱好居然 grown from him 发展到今天的规模 every way that you 你摆放角色的 position a body tells the audience something 每个姿势都在向观众传递信息 so in this case he's standing quite proud 比如现在他站得很挺拔 with his hands on his hips 双手叉腰 we take one picture we call that a frame 我们拍一张照片，这叫一帧 it's a terribly laborious process 这个过程非常耗时费力 but the end result is really worthwhile 但最终成果非常值得 but it was the arrival of a student from Preston 直到一名来自普雷斯顿的学生加入 when things really took off for the animation studio 工作室的事业才真正腾飞 because he brought with him 2 characters 因为他带来了两个角色 that I think you'll recognize 你肯定能认出来 I was thinking you may have a pet 我猜你可能养了宠物 probably a cat 大概率是猫 started drawing a cat but 一开始我画了猫，但 as soon as I started making the clay model 等做黏土模型的时候 it a dog just was easy to make 发现做狗更省事 we'll go somewhere where there's cheese 我们去找有芝士的地方 and it wasn't long until the inventor 没过多久，这位发明家 and his trusty dog 和他的忠犬 was scooping up the biggest prize in Hollywood 拿下了好莱坞最高奖 and the Oscar goes to 奥斯卡得主是 thank you I don't believe it 谢谢，我简直不敢相信 I'd just like to thank 我要感谢 company directors 各位公司董事 thank you 谢谢大家 and with their new shiny prize 拿到这个大奖后 the team started on their next big challenge 团队开启了下一项大挑战 a film from Chicken Run 继《小鸡快跑》之后 came the Curse of the Were Rabbits 他们推出了《人兔的诅咒》 A Matter of Loaf and Death and Shawn the Sheep Movie 还有《面包生死劫》和《小羊肖恩》 so if your family has an old camera 如果你家有闲置旧相机 knocking around the house 放在家里没人用的 why don't you give it a dust up 不妨拿出来擦干净 who knows what it could lead to 说不定能有意外收获 thanks for that Nina up next 谢谢尼娜，接下来 it's time to vote for the 2026 Tree of the Year 2026年度之树投票开始了 the annual competition run by the Woodland Truss 该年度赛事由林地信托举办 celebrates amazing trees all over the UK 表彰全英各地的神奇树木 and this year is looking at some very tough survivors 今年入选的都是超强幸存者 judges have short listed 10 trees that have 评委初选出了10棵树，它们 survived an array of challenges 都熬过了重重困难 and are all still standing strong 至今依然顽强挺立 against the odds 突破了生存极限 the short list 候选名单包括 include this amazing new tree which is growing 这棵神奇的树，它长在 straight out of the church tower in Devon 德文郡教堂的塔楼里 the L Stone Lightning Oak in Dumfries and Galloway 邓弗里斯-加洛韦的雷劈橡树 its name comes from the time 它的名字来源于 it survived the lightning strike many years ago 多年前它挺过了一次雷击 and the Bollyhook Burn Birch in County Durham 还有达勒姆郡的博利胡克桦树 which has survived hanging to a cliff face 它长在悬崖峭壁上 for decades but 已经存活了几十年，但 which will take the crown this year 今年谁能最终夺冠呢？ now they're one of the most common sights of the summer 它们是夏天最常见的景象之一 but there's growing concern 但人们越来越担忧 about britain's bumblebees 英国的大黄蜂种群 after a warning 因为有警告称 our more frequent 越来越频繁的 and intense heat waves are causing them to overheat 强热浪会导致它们体温过高 but why are they struggling and what can we do to help 它们为何生存艰难？我们该如何帮忙？ well here's the BBC's climate editor Justin Rowlett 接下来是BBC气候编辑贾斯汀·罗利特 problem is most UK bumblebees are built 问题是英国多数熊蜂的构造 for cold weather 适配寒冷气候 their furry coat is like a woolly jumper 绒毛就像厚实的羊毛衫 and their fat round bodies help them retain heat 圆胖的身形还能帮它们留存热量 they have even got a central heating system 甚至还有中央供暖系统 they can shimmer their muscles to warm themselves up 能通过抖动肌肉来给自己供暖 now that is great on a spring morning 这在春天早晨非常好用 not so great in the middle of a heat wave 但热浪来袭时就很糟糕了 if it gets too hot 如果天气太热 if the outside air temperature 如果外界空气温度 gets much above about 30 degrees 超过约30摄氏度的话 bumblebee's really struggled to fly 熊蜂就很难飞行 in very hot weather 高温天气下 they have to take shelter and if they can't fly 它们得躲起来，要是没法飞 they can't forage can't collect food 就没法觅食，收集不到食物 making it harder to rear young bumblebees 哺育幼蜂的难度也会提升 the bumblebee populations can be bolstered 想要壮大熊蜂种群 what can people at home do if they want to kind of help 普通民众在家能怎么帮忙 bumblebees in there 自家 immediate environment 周边的熊蜂 there's so much you can do at home 在家可以做的事很多 so you don't have to have a large area 你不需要有很大的空间 to have your own wildflower meadow 打造专属的野花草地 all you need is a small pot on a front door step 家门口台阶上放个小花盆就行 on a window sill fill it with native wildflower seeds 或是窗台上，种上本土野花种子 and that's providing stepping stone for wildlife 就能为野生动物提供落脚的地方 across a human dominated environment 在人类主导的环境里穿行 even a flower pot on a windowsill 哪怕只是窗台上的一个花盆 yes they're absolutely as simple as that 对，就是这么简单 you don't have to have a garden 你不需要有花园 in a hotter more volatile climate 在更热、更不稳定的气候下 the challenge is not just helping bumblebees 挑战不只是帮助熊蜂 survive the next heat wave 撑过下一次热浪 it's making sure there's enough food in the landscape 还要确保环境里有足够的食物 for them to recover afterwards 供它们之后恢复种群 now we're going to stick with the environment 接下来我们继续关注环境话题 we are off to Brazil 我们将前往巴西 Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo 伊拉克以及刚果民主共和国 for this week's stories 来看本周的报道 all about your planet 都和我们的地球有关 up first we have a new species of African monkey 首先是一种新的非洲猴类 that scientists have identified 已经被科学家确认 in the Democratic Republic of congo's rainforest 发现于刚果民主共和国的雨林中 they say that the light 他们表示，它嘴周 colored patches of skin around its mouth 有浅色皮肤斑块 its small size and its own 体型小巧，还有 unique core mean that this is a type of monkey 独特的叫声，说明这是一种 that hadn't been discovered before 此前从未被发现的猴类 it's only the 5th new monkey species 这只是第五种新发现的猴类 identified in Africa within the last 75 years 过去75年间在非洲发现的 next we head to Brazil and 接下来我们前往巴西， to a fishing community in Aya Grand Bay 来到阿亚大湾的一个渔村 studies have found the blacktip 研究发现，黑鳍 sharks have moved to an area on the coast 鲨迁徙到了一处海岸区域 to have their young 来繁育后代 the pregnant 怀孕的 sharks may have chosen it because there is less human 母鲨选择这里是因为人类 interaction 活动少 these sharks are an endangered species 这些鲨鱼是濒危物种 so efforts are being put in 所以目前正采取措施 to protect the area and keep humans away from it 保护该区域，禁止人类进入 in order to allow them to flourish 让它们得以繁衍 lastly we are going to Iraq 最后我们前往伊拉克 where local authorities have grown a green belt 当地政府打造了一条绿化带 along a roadside in the city of Basra 位于巴士拉市的道路旁 the first phase of the project 项目第一阶段 included planted turf grass 内容包括铺设草皮 and heat tolerant trees along an 8 mile stretch 并在8英里路段种植耐热树木 a special type of grass called hybrid 所用特殊草种是杂交 Dutch turf grass has been used 荷兰草皮 because it can grow in dry conditions 因为它适合在干旱环境生长 they're also putting massive 他们还在大力 efforts to plant trees within the city streets 推进城市街道的植树工作 and local housing estates 以及居民区的绿化 to try and help provide shade 目的是提供遮阳处 to cool areas down 降低区域温度 finally welcome to the amazing world of competitive 最后，欢迎来到精彩的竞技 rubik's Cube solving 魔方世界 more than a thousand cubers from 53 countries 来自53国的上千名魔方选手 all came to the Netherlands 齐聚荷兰 for the European Championships 参加欧洲锦标赛 the 17 17项 different challenges they face included speed test 不同的挑战包括速拧 solving cubes blindfolded 盲拧魔方 and even with oven gloves on their hands 甚至戴隔热手套拧 now that really is impressive 这真的太厉害了 well done 太棒了 right that's all we've got time for 好了，今天的节目就到这里 but we shall see you tomorrow bye 我们明天见，拜 完整双语视频请+yukiounijiang 前往小宇宙评论区与主播互动