[Television Day:The baobab tree
[電視日:猴面包樹(shù)
[Today our programme is about the baobab tree,
[今天我們的節(jié)目是關(guān)于猴面包樹(shù),
[which grows in West Africa and Australia.
[這種樹(shù)生長(zhǎng)在西非和澳大利亞.
[As you can see,it is a very strange-looking tree.
[你們都看到了它的外形奇特.
[Its enormous trunk sometimes as much as ten metres in diameter.
[巨大的樹(shù)干其直徑有時(shí)可達(dá)10米.
[It is thicker at the bottom than at the top.
[底部比頂部粗.
[The branches nearest the ground are very long;
[最靠近地面的樹(shù)枝很長(zhǎng).
[those near the top are very short.
[而靠近頂部的樹(shù)枝很短.
[It may be a strange-looking tree,
[雖然它外形看上去奇特,
[but it is extremely useful.
[但它的用途極其廣泛.
[Its leaves are good to eat.
[樹(shù)葉味道很好,
[Its white flowers turn into cool,juicy fruit which tastes rather like cucumber.
[樹(shù)開(kāi)出的白色的花能出一種清涼多汁的水果其味似黃瓜.
[There are such strong fibres in the bark,
[樹(shù)皮中的纖維牢度大
[that people can make rope and cloth from them.
[可用來(lái)做繩子和布.
[When a baobab gets old its trunk becomes hollow.
[到猴面包樹(shù)老了,樹(shù)干就空了,
[An old tree has such a huge,hollow trunk,that it can hold many people.
[巨大的樹(shù)洞可以容納好多人.
[The local people often build their houses inside these trunks.
[當(dāng)?shù)厝顺T跇?shù)干里造房子.
[When it rains,water collects in the hollow
[下雨時(shí),水就積在樹(shù)洞內(nèi).
[The tree has such a lot of leaves and branches,
[這種樹(shù)的樹(shù)葉和樹(shù)枝茂盛
[that the water remains cool and fresh.
[因此積下的水可保持清涼、新鮮.
[It is such a useful tree,
[猴面包樹(shù)實(shí)用價(jià)值高,
[some people could hardly live without it.
[有些人離了它就不行.