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||1:John Thorbjarnarson knew he could not end men’s fear of crocodilians, hard-wired since hominids first ventured down from the trees into swamps that seethed with them.||2:But in his 20-odd years working for the Wildlife Conservation Society he did more than anyone else to try.||3:He commended the grace of their straight, silent swimming, their camouflage mottlings of yellow, grey and olive green, and the jewelled beauty of new, damp hatchlings no bigger than the span of his hand.||4:He stressed their cultural importance, even magic: the dragon of China, bringer of good fortune, and the water god of ancient Egypt who made the grasses green.||5:He extolled their niceness, snapping them as they basked companionably on warm mud or on a favourite bank of long grass, the forefoot of one embracing the back of another.||6:Most crocodilians, he reminded people, preferred to dine on fish or molluscs rather than farmers.||7:Most were sensitive, even shy.
||1:约翰?瑟布贾纳森知道,自人类首次冒险从树上直接落入鳄鱼渲腾的沼泽中以来,他不可能终结人们对鳄鱼的恐惧。||2:但在他为野生动物保护协会工作的20多年岁月里,他比其他人更勤于冒险。||3:他欣赏鳄鱼那笔直、无声的泳行雅姿,他欣赏鳄鱼那黄色、灰色和橄榄绿相间的伪装斑,他欣赏那如宝石美人般的、刚刚出生、浑身湿漉漉的、与他的手臂等长的幼鳄。||4:他强调鳄鱼文化的重要性,甚至着迷于好运守护神中国龙,使草地变绿的古埃及水神。||5:他称颂鳄鱼的漂亮,当鳄鱼们在暖和的烂泥中懒洋洋地晒太阳,或在舒适的长草坡上,一只鳄鱼的前足趴在另一只鳄鱼的背上时,他拍摄它们。||6:他提醒人们,大多数鳄鱼宁愿吃鱼或软体动物而不愿吃农夫。||7:大多数鳄鱼敏感、甚至胆小。
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1.Adorned, set with, or made from jewels.
‘a _jewelled_ dagger’
‘There were Krishnadeva Rayas, complete with _jewelled_ turbans, even a Veerappan look-alike, complete with a cartridge belt.’
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