Amateur[ˈæmətə(r)] Naturalists[ˈnætʃrəlɪst]
Ecologists[i:ˈkɔlədʒɪsts] are using a wealth of unusual data to predict he impact of climate change.
生态学家们通过大量民间数据来预测气候变化带来的影响
a wealth of
Sn.大量;丰富If you say that someone or something has a wealth of good qualities or things, you are emphasizing that they have a very large number or amount of them.
FORMAL 正式
...such a wealth of creative expertise[ˌekspɜ:ˈti:z]...
如此丰富的创造性Un.专门技能
The city boasts[bəʊst]v.有，拥有（值得骄傲的成就或财产）a wealth of beautiful churches.
这座城市拥有众多美丽的教堂
A:
Tim Sparks slides a small leather-bound装订的notebook out of an envelope[ˈenvəl əʊp].
Tim Sparks从信封里取出了一本皮面笔记本
slide out of
The book’s yellowing pages contain beekeeping notes made between 1941 and 1969 by the late Walter Coates of Kilworth, Leicestershire.
笔记本的纸页已经微微泛黄，它记载了在Kilworth, Leicestershire居住的已故的养蜂人Walter Coates从1941年到1969年间的养蜂记录
late
adj.已故的；已逝的；（尤指）新近去世的Y ou use late when you are talking about someone who is dead, especially someone who has died recently.
His growing pile[paɪl] of local journals
他那堆越来越多的地方日报
a pile of
“We’re uncovering about one major new record each month.”
“我们每个月都会发现一个新的记录”
uncover
v.揭露，发现（隐秘之事）If you uncover something, especially something that has been kept secret, you discover or find out about it.
Auditors[ˈɔ:dɪtə(r)] said they had uncovered evidence of fraud...
审计人员说他们已经发现了欺诈的证据
A specific plot to kill him was uncovered in the past couple of weeks.
一个针对他的暗杀阴谋在过去几周里被揭露了出来
v.发现，发掘（地下埋藏之物）When people who are digging somewhere uncover something, they find a thing or a place that has been under the ground for a long time.
Archaeologists[ˌɑ:kiˈɒlədʒɪst]have uncovered an 11,700-year-old hunting camp in Alaska[əˈlæskə].
考古学家们在阿拉斯加发现了一个距今11,700年的狩猎营地
v.揭开…的盖子；除去…上的覆盖物To uncover something means to remove something that is covering it.
When the seedlings[ˈsi:dlɪŋ]sprout[spraʊt], uncover the tray[treɪ].
秧苗发芽后，就把盘子上的盖子拿掉
When the first wood anemones[əˈneməni] flowered, the dates on which the oaks[əʊk] burst into leaf and the rooks began nesting.
银莲花第一次开花的时间、橡树抽芽的时间以及白嘴鸦开始筑巢的时间
burst into leaf or flower
（花、叶等）突然绽放，突然长出When plants burst into leaf or flower, their leaves or flowers suddenly open.
WRITTEN 笔语
...rows of wallflowers promising to burst into bloom.
一排排桂竹香含苞待放
Successive[səkˈsesɪv]Marshams continued compiling[kəmˈpaɪl] these notes for 211 years.
Marsham家族一代代的后人们搜集这些资料长达211年
successive
adj.连续的;接连的;相继的Successive means happening or existing one after another without a break.
Jackson was the winner for a second successive year...
杰克逊已经是连续第二年获胜了
Britain was suffering from the failure of successive governments to co-ordinate a national transport policy.
接连几届政府都没能协调出一个全国性的交通运输政策，英国因此而深受其苦
compile
v.汇编;编制;编纂When you compile something such as a report, book, or programme, you produce it by collecting and putting together many pieces of information.
Councils were required to compile a register of all adults living in their areas...
各地政务委员会被要求编制一份该地区成年居民的名册
The book took 10 years to compile...
编这本书花了10年时间
B:
Ecologists interested in the timing of biological events or phenology[fəˈnɒlədʒi]物候学
研究生物自然现象时间或者生态生物学的生态学者们
timing
Un.时机掌握;时间选择Timing is the skill or action of judging the right moment in a situation or activity at which to do something.
His photo is a wonderful happy moment caught with perfect timing...
他拍的照片时机掌握完美，记录下了动人的快乐瞬间
