高中英语必修四Unit 1 A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE的课文翻译如下：
清晨 5 点45 分，太阳刚从东非的贡贝国家公园的上空升起，
we are all going to visit them in the forest. 我们一行人准备按照简研究黑猩猩的方法去森林里拜访它们。
Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans. 简研究这些黑猩猩家族已经很多年了，她帮助人们了解黑猩猩跟人类的行为是多么的相似。
我们当天的首项任务就是观察黑猩猩一家是如何醒来的。
This means we have to return to the big tree where we left the chimps the night before. 这意味着我们要返回前一天晚上我们离开黑猩猩一家睡觉的大树旁。
Everyone sits in the shade of the tree and waits. 大家坐在树荫下等待着，这时候猩猩们睡醒了，准备离开。
Then the group of chimps walks into the forest, and we follow them. 然后这群黑猩猩向森林深处漫步而去，我们尾随其后。
在大部分时间里，黑猩猩或相互喂食，或彼此擦身，这在它们的家庭里是表示爱的方式。
Jane had warned us that we would be dirty and tired by the afternoon. 简预先提醒我们，到下午的时候我们就会又脏又累。
She was right. 不过到傍晚时分我们觉得这一切都是值得的。
我们看到黑猩猩妈妈跟她的幼子们在树上玩耍，后来看见它们晚上一切回窝里睡觉了。
I understood how close the bonds between chimpanzee family members are like those between human families. 我明白了猩猩家庭成员之间的联系像人类家庭一样紧密。
在简之前没有人完全了解黑猩猩的行为。
She spent many years observing and recording the daily lives of chimps. 在简之前没有人完全了解黑猩猩的行为。
She had wanted to study animals in their natural habitat since she was a child. 但是，这不是一件简单的事。
当她1960年最初来到贡贝时，对女性来说，住进大森林还是很稀罕的事情。
Her mother helped her in the first few months, which made it possible for her to start her own project. 她母亲头几个月来帮过她的忙，这才使她得以开始自己的计划。
她的工作改变了人们对黑猩猩的看法。
For example, one of her important discoveries was that chimps hunt animals. 而在此之前，人们一直认为黑猩猩只吃水果和坚果。
She had seen a group of chimps catch and eat a monkey with her own eyes. 她曾经亲眼看到过一群黑猩猩捕杀一只猴子，然后把它吃掉。