팟캐스트 NPR 영어회화 실전영어 Day 4

NPR Podcast

Animal

Scientists study the mysteries of bird migration in the mountains of Los Angeles

 

*wee hours 꼭두새벽 (12am-3am)

She has been showing up at this parking lot in the wee hours of the morning to count birds.

Whooshing by your face.

Have you ever been whacked by a low-flying bird?

*a bad rap 누명

Birds get a bad rap from that, but no.

Bear Divide is like a passageway through this wall of mountains.

*crack  (어려운 문제 등을) 풀다, 해결하다, 타개하다(solve)

Bear Divide is this incredibly unique place to crack some of the mysteries around bird migration.

*Ornithology 조류학

you can start hearing all the birds that stream through.

*speck 작은 얼룩 작은 알갱이

I didn't even notice any black speck flying in the sky.

*skyward  하늘쪽으로, 위로, 하늘로 향한

Reckling and Davies train their eyeballs skyward.

She clamps a tiny bracelet around its ankle.

It is a possible sign that this bird is ready to breed.

*standpoint 관점

I think that that's what makes it very unique from that accessibility standpoint is that you can really connect.

*get suck into 끼어들다, 빠져들다, 말려들다

Even people like me, a total bird novice, can get sucked into the drama of the day.

So much so, I make sure to scurry back to Reckling to check in on the day's final bird tally.

A bird is too obvious to evade my untrained eye.

 

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Scientists study the mysteries of bird migration in the mountains of Los Angeles

Scientists study the mysteries of bird migration in the mountains of Los Angeles