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About 87 percent of the world's orangutans live on Borneo, but their numbers have fallen dramatically over the past two decades.
世界上约87%的红毛猩猩生活在婆罗洲，但是在过去二十年的时间里，他们的数量急剧下降。
This is due to the systematic destruction of the rainforest for a cheap, mass-produced commodity few consumers have even heard of: palm oil.
这是因为热带雨林遭到蓄意破坏，只为得到一种大批生产的廉价商品，甚至只有为数不多的人听说过这种商品名字：棕榈油。
About half of the packaged items in our grocery stores contain palm oil.
食品商店中约有一半的包装商品都含有棕榈油。
To produce the oil, large portions of rainforest in Indonesia and Malaysia are cleared out every year.
为了生产这种油，每年在印度尼西亚和马拉西亚都有大面积的雨林遭到清除。
This deforestation destroys fragile, biodiverse habitats on which animals such as orangutans — but also rhinos, tigers and elephants — depend.
这种森林砍伐破坏了脆弱的生物多样化栖息地，而这些栖息地是红毛猩猩、犀牛、老虎、大象等动物生活的地方。
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词语解释
1. dramatically 急剧地；显著地
例句：Infant mortality has been dramatically reduced because of modern medicine.
由于现代医学婴儿死亡率已经极大地降低了。
2.deforestation 采伐森林
例句： There might even be an agreement to stop deforestation.
甚至有可能达成停止采伐森林的协议。
