Name: Grasslands
Released: 2017-03-13
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, David Attenborough

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Nouns

1) foreleg ( передняя нога )

Powerful foreleg enable it to rip apart a termite hill with ease.
2) serval ( сервал )

But a serval cat's main weapon are enormous radar ears.
3) whodunnit ( убийца )

At dawn, the crew have a whodunnit mystery on their hands.
4) swathe ( бинтовать )

Nothing cuts a swathe through grass like an African bull elephant.
5) footstep ( подножка )

Every footstep counts,
6) stamen ( тычинки )

Stamina has won him admirers,
7) anteater ( муравьед )

A giant anteater on the plains of South America.
8) tonn ( тонн )

Massive neck muscles enable them to shovel five tonn of snow a day.
9) tigress ( тигрица )

so it should be a tigress with cubs, coming to feed on this rhino carcass.
10) attenborough ( аттенборо )

ATTENBOROUGH: The team have bumped into their first obstacle.
11) plumage ( оперение )

He's grown elaborate breeding plumage for this moment,
12) admirer ( поклонник )

Stamina has won him admirer,
13) cramp ( корча )

Until someone else comes along and cramp your style.
14) mouthful ( рот )

a mouthful of withered grass.
15) scaffold ( эшафот )

ATTENBOROUGH: Over 100 scaffold poles provide the anchor points
16) kilo ( кило )

At 900 kilo, he weighs more than all five lionesses combined.
17) termite ( термит )

In northern Australia, termite memorialise their industry in sculpture.
18) carcass ( тушку )

ATTENBOROUGH: A return to the rhino carcass and the plot thickens.
19) ostrich ( страусиная )

What about an ostrich?
20) carnage ( резня )

That's carnage!
21) relic ( реликвия )

A relic from the Ice Age, a baby Saiga antelope,
22) rodent ( грызун )

but now, with so few rodent around, she will have to go hungry.
23) eruption ( извержение )

But fuelled by the flood, the eruption of grass attracts new possible prey.

Verbs

1) memorialise ( увековечиванию памяти )

In northern Australia, termites memorialise their industry in sculpture.
2) misjudge ( недооценивать )

but he's misjudge the height of the grass.
3) outsmart ( перехитрить )

And this time, the animals have outsmart us.
4) snarl ( огрызаться )

It snarl at the camera trap, look at that.
5) devour ( жрут )

Each year they devour millions of tons of grass,
6) starve ( голодать )

and the bison are now slowly starving.
7) roam ( шастать )

In summer, bison roam freely,
8) thrive ( процветать )

Many plants would drown here, but grasses thrive.
9) wander ( бродить )

Over 2,000,000 wildebeests wander the East African savannahs
10) undergo ( пройти )

and the grassland undergo a radical change.
11) dominate ( доминировать )

as that dominate by elephant grass in northeast India.
12) threaten ( угрожать )

Mothers will charge if they feel threaten.
13) disappear ( исчезают )

while most of their prey disappear over the horizon.
14) expose ( разоблачить )

Feeding up here, she's expose.
15) bake ( выпекать )

And as the sun bake the grass, the termites face new danger.
16) bump ( шишка )

ATTENBOROUGH: The team have bump into their first obstacle.
17) pose ( поза )

For one pride of lions, this pose a major problem.
18) blanket ( одеяло )

Sixty million tons of snow now blanket this herd's territory.
19) tear ( слеза )

they've torn the triggers.
20) dig ( копать )

And where the bison have dug, the fox now spots an opportunity.
21) transform ( преобразование )

water transform one of the most remarkable grasslands on Earth,
22) trap ( ловушка )

ATTENBOROUGH: Chadden decides to give the camera trap one last chance.
23) attract ( привлечь )

But fuelled by the flood, the eruption of grass attract new possible prey.

Adverbs

1) luckily ( к счастью )

Luckily, they are an industrious lot.
2) seldom ( редко )

Harvest mice seldom go all the way down to the ground.
3) sufficiently ( достаточно )

His bachelor pad is sufficiently neat and tidy to attract a female.
4) wherever ( где )

They're found wherever grass grows on the planet,
5) overhead ( накладные )

But she can read the pattern of the stems overhead like a map,
6) somehow ( как-то )

The cats must somehow topple the buffalo,
7) virtually ( практически )

These blades are so tough that virtually no large grass eaters can stomach them.
8) ultimately ( в конечном счете )

But, ultimately, once the water recedes, there will be new life,
9) basically ( в основном )

Basically, that's about as much like grass as we can make it look.
10) increasingly ( все большую )

food becomes increasingly thin on the ground.
11) apart ( кроме )

Powerful forelegs enable it to rip apart a termite hill with ease.
12) carefully ( тщательно )

By carefully selecting grass blades, each trimmed to the correct length,
13) forever ( навсегда )

Forever chasing the seasonal growth of the grass on which they depend.
14) eventually ( в конце концов )

Eventually the earth can't soak up any more,
15) truly ( действительно )

and the world it creates is truly unique.
16) exactly ( точно )

all doing exactly the same thing, that's a mind-boggling amount of grass.
17) automatically ( автоматически )

the cameras will switch on automatically and start recording.
18) alone ( один )

And they are not alone.
19) perhaps ( возможно )

Never mind, perhaps there are bigger opportunities ahead.
20) sometimes ( иногда )

To get through the winter on these prairies, sometimes brain beats brawn.
21) finally ( наконец )

Finally, he's done enough.
22) deep ( глубокий )

The food the fox seeks is also deep beneath the snow.
23) behind ( позади )

One distracts the bull up front, while her sisters attack from behind.

Adjectives

1) industrious ( трудолюбивый )

Luckily, they are an industrious lot.
2) indestructible ( неистребима )

Almost indestructible, it can grow two feet in a day...
3) unfriendly ( неприветливо )

ATTENBOROUGH: Ifthe wildlife is unfriendly to humans,
4) nomadic ( кочевой )

The young twins will now begin the nomadic life
5) termite ( термит )

Powerful forelegs enable it to rip apart a termite hill with ease.
6) ingenious ( гениальный )

and it's very ingenious.
7) sporadic ( спорадические )

Grasslands occur where rain is too sporadic for forests to exist.
8) brute ( зверюги )

For the bison, it will be a matter of brute strength.
9) elusive ( неуловимый )

The aim, to capture intimate images of some the world's most elusive creatures
10) microscopic ( микроскопические )

covered in microscopic hooks,
11) unpredictable ( непредсказуемая )

of these unpredictable but ultimately bountiful lands.
12) specialised ( специализированные )

Now, only the most specialised predators on the plains can make a living.
13) frustrating ( разочаровывает )

CHADDEN: We are now two weeks in and it's very frustrating.
14) risky ( рискованно )

Let's go back because it's too risky going through this heavy grass.
15) abundant ( обильные )

almost continuously cropping the abundant green grass.
16) harsh ( суровый )

Grass can survive some of the harsh conditions on Earth,
17) neat ( аккуратные )

His bachelor pad is sufficiently neat and tidy to attract a female.
18) promising ( перспективный )

the guards take them to a promising lead.
19) surprising ( удивительно )

And that's a problem shared with a surprising neighbour.
20) intimate ( интимные )

The aim, to capture intimate images of some the world's most elusive creatures
21) elephant ( слон )

CHADDEN: So I thought this was elephant damage.
22) aerial ( антенна )

Carmine bee-eaters are superb aerial hunters,
23) enormous ( огромное )

But a serval cat's main weapon are enormous radar ears.

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