CNN新闻英语第 39 课：A Real Spider Man 一个真正的蜘蛛人-1

HATTORI 哈托利
If you didn't get enough of spiders in the new "Spider-Man" movie, don't go away. Beth Nissen visits the place that's home to a million of the eight-legged creatures and a man who feels right at home with them, Arachnophobes beware. 如果你看了新片《蜘蛛人》还觉得不过瘾，请别走开。贝丝·尼森参观了一个生活着上百万只这种8条腿生物的生息地，同时走访了一个和蜘蛛融洽相处的人，有蜘蛛恐惧症的人要小心了！

BETH NISSEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over) 贝丝·尼森， CNN特派记者
Norm Platnik (ph) is a spider man. 罗姆·布拉尼克是一个"蜘蛛人"。
NORM PLATNIK 罗姆·布拉尼克
Now this is a nice spider. 瞧，这是一只漂亮的蜘蛛。
NISSEN 尼森
He's the spider curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. 他是纽约美国自然历史博物馆的蜘蛛部主管。

PLATNIK 布拉尼克
We have the world's largest collection of spiders,well over a million specimens here. 我们收集的蜘蛛是全世界最多的，超过一百万种。

NISSEN 尼森
Fifty thousand of them are in his office preserved in little vials and Mason jars. Most of these spiders are tiny. He has some bigger ones in the hall. 在他的办公室，有5万种装在各种瓶子里保存的蜘蛛，其中绝大多数体积都很小，一些大的蜘蛛放在大厅里了。

PLATNIK 布拉尼克
Spiders can be as small as the period at the end of a sentence or as large as a dinner plate leg span. 有的蜘蛛小得像一个句号，而大个儿的两腿分开有正餐碟子那么宽。

NISSEN 尼森
Most people think spiders are insects. 多数人认为蜘蛛是昆虫。

PLATNIK 布拉尼克
Not at all. Insects have six legs, totally different group of arthropods (ph). 其实并非如此。昆虫只有6条腿，和节肢蜘蛛类动物完全不一样。

NISSEN 尼森
All spiders have eight legs and all spiders spin silk, wondrous stuff. 所有的蜘蛛都是8条腿，它们全都会纺丝，真是不可思议。

PLATNIK 布拉尼克
A strand of spider silk is, has a tinsel strength that's greater than steel of the same diameter. 蜘蛛吐的每股丝都有金属般的韧性，比同样粗细的钢丝还坚韧。

NISSEN 尼森
Yet highly elastic. 而且还有很好的弹性。

PLATNIK 布拉尼克
Spider silk can easily stretch to three or four times its original dimensions and then snap back. 蜘蛛吐的丝网可以伸展3至4倍于原来的尺寸，然后弹回去。

NISSEN 尼森
Only about half of all spiders weave webs and those aren't always the Halloween style orbed webs. There are also sheet webs and funnel webs. Spiders use webs to catch food. They set up sticky mid air traps, drop webs like a net, lasso and tie up prey like a cowboy with a rodeo calf. Spiders that don't weave webs, hunt. 只有大约一半的蜘蛛织网，而且并非都是万圣节那种圆形的。蜘蛛网还有一片片的和漏斗形的。蜘蛛靠结网捕食，它们在空中设置黏性的陷阱，把蛛网悬置，然后像牛仔套小牛一样甩出套索，勒紧猎物。不结网的蜘蛛就追捕猎物。