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Canada's commercial seal hunt has been a source of debate for over thirty years, but few people have ever witnessed the hunt as it happens or evaluated fundamental data about seals and sealing.

  加拿大出于商业目的猎杀海豹已经争论了三十多年,但是当猎杀发生
的时候,很少有人曾经目击过此过程或是对关于海豹和海豹猎杀的原始数
据加以分析和鉴定。

Today's Entry: Friday, March 31, 2000  The Hunt Begins (1)

捕猎船 Earlier this week, as the seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence began in earnest, members of our team were there to observe it. The "landscape" of the hunt is quite a different one this year. In an ordinary year in the Gulf, the bulk of the killing is done with clubs and hakapiks, and hunters use skidoos to get around the ice floes to kill and collect the animals. This year, without stable ice floes on which to operate, they have been operating primarily from boats, using rifles to kill the animals. While less common in the Gulf, this is precisely the style of hunting employed off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador where the bulk of the Canadian hunt takes place.
本周早些时候,海豹的猎杀在圣劳伦斯海湾的东北部开始,我们国际爱护动物基金会的
成员在那里目击了整个过程。
由于今年那里没有坚固的浮冰,猎杀海豹的情景不同于往年
。今年主要使用船只、来福枪来实施猎杀工作;正常往年是
用大头棒和专门猎杀用的 hakapiks工具,猎杀者们靠机动雪橇到达浮冰周围来猎杀和捡取海豹。

The ice pans are broken-up and slushy, and do not provide the 猎杀hunters easy access to the seals. Moreover, as a result of the weather conditions described in previous entries, there seems to be far fewer seals of a desirable age around to hunt. Nevertheless, almost every day this week, there were a number of boats hunting.
冰块是断裂解体和多雪泥的猎杀者很难接近海豹。
更为重要的是由于先前所说的天气原因,这里似乎很少有满意大小的海豹。然而本周几乎每天都有一定数量的捕猎船。


We have spent the last several days flying over top of these floating slaughterhouses, and I can tell you that while the weather conditions and the hunting style in the Gulf may be different this year, qualitatively speaking, the experience has probably been no different for the harp seals. It is as cruel and as bloody as ever. A typical scene:
虽然今年的天气条件和猎杀类型会与以往有所不同,但定性讲对于那种 harp seals的海豹的猎杀仍然是和以往一样的凶残、血腥。

The Harp seal feels the pan beneath begin to shift as the bow of a 海豹sealing vessel cuts through the water and ice toward the animal. She is shot - sometimes after two or three bullets that miss her whiz past her head. She may or may not die quickly; more often than not, she will not die immediately upon being shot. She will lie there for some time and suffer while a number of variables determine how long this goes on.

这种可怜的动物能感到猎杀者的船具径直破冰而来,身下的浮冰在震动,死神在到来。
有时两三发子弹飕飕穿过她的头部。她可能会立即死去也可能过段时间才死亡,通常更多
的时候,当她被射中之时不是立即死去。她将要痛苦的度过生命的最后时段,直到一些不
定的未知量的决定来结束这个痛苦时段的长短。

 From : IFAW  International Fund for Animal Welfare


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evaluate:动词,
对…评价;对…鉴定。
technical questions
to be evaluated by a
committee of experts
有待专家委员会进行鉴
定的技术问题。

fundamental data:
基本数据,原始数据
(关于海豹和捕猎海豹的)。

bulk:在此为主体 ;绝大部分;大多数。
devote the bulk of
one's energy to sth
把精力主要用于某事。

hakapiks:此词未能
查到,问老外Canuck大
概得知是一种专用于杀
猎的工具,在一端有一
根大长钉子。可以在图
片12中可以看到。 a special tool just only for killing sth ,on one end with a big spike。

skidoo:机动雪橇。

floe:浮冰块;大片
    浮冰。
precisely:确切地
,精确地;严格地;严
谨地。如:说话精确
speak precisely

slushy:多雪泥(或
泥浆)的;无聊言情的
;胡说八道的。
如:无聊(言情)小说 a slushy novel

qualitatively:副
词,质地;性质地;质
量地。qualitative
analysis 定性分析。

harp seal:海豹的
一种a kind of seals

whiz:嗖嗖声,呼呼
声,嘶嘶声;飕飕地移
动(或飞驰)。这里是
说射向海豹的子弹飕飕
地从海豹头中穿过。

Notice 通常不会如此浪费子弹。相比来说
一颗子弹是很贵的,所
以一般猎杀者都是棒杀海豹。
本文所言的情况是由于
今年的天气造成浮冰块
很不坚固,难于接近海
豹,只好用来福枪射杀
海豹。如果没有射准,
则会对海豹造成痛苦之
极,如本文最后所言。