2009湖北高考阅读2翻译逐段翻译-第1段

Three years ago, five parrots were set free in a wild place of Arizona, thousands of miles from the Channel Islands in Jersey where they had been looked after by zookeepers. No evolutionary strategies informed them how to behave in this new landscape of mountainous pine forest unoccupied by their kind for 50 years. To the researchers’ surprise, they failed to make contact with a group of wild parrots imported from Mexico and set free at the same time. Within 24 hours the reintroducing ended in failure, and the poor birds were back in cages, on their way to the safety of the Arizona reintroduction programme.
三年前，5只鹦鹉被放飞到亚利桑那州的野外，距离它们曾经被关的动物园所在地——泽西的香奈儿岛数千英里。没有任何进化方面的策略告诉它们在这个长满松树的山区森林里如何生存，尽管50年前它们的祖先就在那里。令研究人员惊奇的是，它们不能与和它们同时放飞的、来自墨西哥的一群野生鹦鹉进行交流。在检验亚利桑那州重新引进计划安全性的过程中，24小时内，该计划就以失败告终。这几只可怜的鹦鹉（不得不）又回到笼中。

Ever since then, the programme has enjoyed great success, mainly because the birds now being set free are Mexican birds illegally caught in the wild, confiscated (没收)