The largest creature ever to live, the blue whale averages 25 feet (7.6 meters) long at birth and weighs about three tons.
蓝鲸是最大的尚存生物，它们在出生时平均长达25尺(7.6米)重达大约3吨。
I had come to understand the blue whale slaughter intellectually—that in just four decades we nearly extinguished the largest creature ever to live—and now I grasped it viscerally.
我已经能理智地去理解那些蓝鲸捕杀者――在仅仅四十年时间里我们几乎要灭绝了这个世界现存最大型的生物――而且现在我由衷地体会到了这点。
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