72 Found Discovery and Recovery

CHAPTER 1 Found (and Lost) WORKERS FIND A 60-YEAR-OLD UNOPENED LOVE LETTER. WHEN THEY RETURN IT, WILL THE COUPLE STILL BE IN LOVE? In 1952, Dick Hauck and his girlfriend Arlene wrote many love letters to each other. Dick was far away, serving in the US Army, and Arlene was home in Minnesota. They wrote every day. Then Dick wrote the most important letter of them all. He sent it on March 31, 1952. Arlene didn't get it until 60 years later. In the letter, Dick asked Arlene to marry him. Workers found the letter in 2012. They were fixing the home where Arlene grew up when they discovered the unopened letter hidden underneath a part of the floor. Instead of throwing the old letter away, they used the name and address on the envelope to find Arlene and deliver it to her. The good news is Dick and Arlene had gotten married anyway. They are still married today.

工人们发现了一封60年前未拆封的情书。 当他们归还时，这对夫妇还会相爱吗？ 1952年，迪克·霍克和女友阿琳给对方写了很多情书。 迪克远在美国陆军服役，而阿琳则在明尼苏达州的家中。 他们每天都写信。然后迪克写了一封最重要的信。 他在1952年3月31日寄出了这封信。 阿琳直到60年后才得到它。 在信中，迪克向阿琳求婚。 2012年，工人们发现了这封信。 当他们在装修阿琳长大的房子时，发现了藏在地板下面的那封未开封的信。 他们没有把旧信扔掉，而是用信封上的名字和地址找到了阿琳，把信交给了她。 好消息是迪克和阿琳已经结婚了。 他们至今仍是夫妻。

There are many different things you can find. Like the workers in this story, you can find something that was lost. You can find your keys or your cellphone hidden under the seat on your car. You can also find things that were not lost, but haven't been discovered yet. You can find a new species of fish living deep under the water. You can find the cure for an illness or a new medicine to help people feel better. You can find out something. "To find something out" means to discover or learn new knowledge. For example, you can find out that you like swimming after years of being afraid of the water. You can also find the time or find the energy to do something you have always wanted to do. What else can you find? Read this book and find out!

你可以找到很多不同的东西。 就像这个故事中的工人一样，你可以找到丢失的东西。 你可以在汽车座位下面找到你的钥匙或手机。 你也可以找到那些没有丢失但还没有被发现的东西。 你会发现生活在深海的一种新鱼类。 你可以找到一种疾病的治疗方法或一种新药来帮助人们感觉更好。 你会有所发现的。 “To find something out”意思是发现或学习新知识。 例如，你会发现在多年害怕水之后你喜欢游泳。 你也可以找到时间或精力去做你一直想做的事情。 你还能找到什么？读这本书，找到答案吧！

CHAPTER 2 Aha! IN 2006, ALMOST 17,000 NEW ANIMALS AND PLANTS WERE FOUND. THAT'S ALMOST 50 A DAY! There is something very unusual living deep in the high mountains of Myanmar, the country formerly called Burma. It is a monkey that sneezes when it rains. The monkey has almost no nose, and when water runs down its face, it sneezes it away. Have you heard of it? Probably not. Nobody had heard of it before 2010. That's when the monkey was found for the first time. Every year, an amazing number of new plant and animal species are found. Modern ways of collecting and identifying living things allow scientists to find more new species than ever before. Some say we are in a "Golden Age of Discovery." To show this, scientists at the University of Arizona counted the number of new plants and animals found only in 2006. The number? 16,969!

第二章啊哈！2006年，发现了近17000种新的动植物。 那几乎是一天50个！在缅甸的高山深处生活着一种非常不寻常的东西，缅甸以前被称为Burma。 下雨时打喷嚏的是猴子。 猴子几乎没有鼻子，当水顺着它的脸流下来时，它就用喷嚏把水吹走。 你听说过吗？可能不会。 在2010年之前，没有人听说过它。 那是猴子第一次被发现的时候。 每年都有数量惊人的新动植物物种被发现。 收集和鉴定生物的现代方法使科学家能够发现比以往更多的新物种。 有人说我们正处于“发现的黄金时代”。 为了证明这一点，亚利桑那大学的科学家们统计了2006年发现的新植物和动物的数量。 电话号码吗?16969年!

About half of the new animals found in 2006 were insects. In addition, researchers counted 2,000 new plants. Mammals were less common. They made up about 1 percent of the new species. One reason for the high number of new species is transportation. Modern transportation allows researchers to travel to new areas that had been difficult to visit and search in the past. The sneezing monkey is an example of a new species found because researchers were able to go deeper into forests and higher into mountains than ever before.

2006年发现的新动物中约有一半是昆虫。 此外，研究人员还发现了2000种新植物。 哺乳动物则不那么常见。它们约占新物种的1%。 新物种数量众多的一个原因是运输。 现代交通工具使研究人员能够前往过去难以访问和搜索的新地区。 打喷嚏的猴子是新物种的一个例子，因为研究人员能够比以往任何时候都更深入森林和更高的山脉。

Another reason for the high number of newly discovered species is genetics. Genetic testing tells us more than other methods of identification. For example, scientists used genetic testing on a common type of butterfly called the skipper butterfly. They learned that this butterfly was actually made up of ten different species of butterfly. From the outside, the butterflies all looked identical, or exactly the same, but the genes showed differences. Testing showed that each different species had its own characteristics and history. In a similar study, a group of scientists tested a collection of 730 known birds and bats. To their surprise, they discovered 21 new species in the collection. Each new species looked the same as a known species. The differences only appeared when they studied the genes of the animals. New species aren't the only things you can find with genetic testing.

新发现物种数量众多的另一个原因是遗传学。 基因检测比其他鉴定方法更能说明问题。 例如，科学家们对一种常见的蝴蝶进行了基因测试，这种蝴蝶被称为跳蝶。 他们了解到这只蝴蝶实际上是由十种不同的蝴蝶组成的。 从外表上看，所有的蝴蝶看起来都一样，或者完全一样，但基因显示出差异。 试验表明，每个不同的物种都有自己的特点和历史。 在一项类似的研究中，一组科学家测试了730种已知的鸟类和蝙蝠。 令他们惊讶的是，他们在收藏中发现了21个新物种。 每个新物种看起来都和已知物种一样。 只有当他们研究动物的基因时，这种差异才显现出来。 新物种并不是你能通过基因测试找到的唯一东西。