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Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher we answer a question from a reader in China.
大家好! 本周《名师答疑》，我们回答中国的一位读者的问题。
Dear Teacher, I read an article on your website, Visitors Slowly Return to a Famous Thai Coastal Area.
亲爱的老师，我在您的网站上看到一篇文章，“游客逐渐回到泰国著名沿海旅游区”。
I am a little confused about the words "restore" and "recover" in the story.
我对文章中的restore和recover这两个词有些困惑。
Is there any difference between them?
它们之间有什么不同吗？
Thank you! Your loyal reader, Aiping, China.
谢谢! 您的忠实读者，艾平，中国。
Dear Aiping, thank you for this question.
亲爱的艾萍，谢谢你的提问。
The story tells of a famous place, Maya Bay, in Thailand.
这篇文章讲述了一个著名的地方——泰国的玛雅湾。
A movie was filmed there.
有一部电影就是在那里拍摄的。
Too many people visited this island and it became polluted.
太多的人参观这个岛，导致它受到污染。
Fish and wildlife disappeared from its waters.
鱼类和野生动物从水域消失了。
In 2018 the government closed it.
2018年，政府关闭了小岛。
Now, it is open again and a smaller number of people can visit it.
现在，它重新开放了，少量游客可以来游玩。
The story ends with this quote from an Italian visitor:
文章以一位意大利游客的话结束：
"I think it is fine that it has been closed all this time to protect the nature and allow it to restore and recover."
“我认为，为了保护自然环境，让小岛休养生息，这段时间关闭它是很好的做法。”
Let us look first at the word "restore."
让我们先来看看restore这个词。
It means to give back something that was lost or taken.
它的意思是归还丢失或被拿走的东西。
In the case of Maya Bay, the beautiful sea animals called corals died from all the traffic in the water.
在玛雅湾的例子中，美丽的海洋动物珊瑚死于水中的大量船只来往。
So workers had to plant new coral on the sea floor.
因此，工人们不得不在海底种植新的珊瑚。
In other words: Officials restored the reefs by planting new corals from other places.
换句话说：官员们通过种植来自其他地方的新珊瑚来恢复珊瑚礁。
Maya Bay's beach experienced another loss – the native plants that grew there.
玛雅海湾的海滩经历了另一种损失：生长在那里的本土植物。
The movie makers took away some of the plants.
拍电影的人移走了一些植物。
They planted trees that are not native to the island.
又种植了不是岛上土生土长的树。
Thai officials tried to correct that environmental damage by bringing back the usual plants that grew in the sand.
泰国官员试图通过恢复生长在沙地上的常见植物来纠正这种对环境的破坏。
You can say, Marine biologists restored the native plants on the beach.
你可以说，海洋生物学家恢复了海滩上的本土植物。
Now, let us look at the word "recover."
现在，让我们来看看recover这个词。
It means to get back or regain something that was lost.
它的意思是找回或得到失去的东西。
The ecological system, or environment, of Maya Bay was lost to pollution.
玛雅海湾的生态系统或环境因污染而丧失。
We read that government scientists brought corals and plants back, but they need time to grow.
我们读到，政府科学家恢复了珊瑚和植物，但它们需要时间来生长。
It will take a few years for the beach to recover as the new plants grow.
海滩需要几年的时间才能让新植物生长，并恢复如初。
Think of how we use "recover" to mean, "become healthy again after an illness."
想想我们如何用recover来表示“病后恢复健康”的意思。
You can say, She recovered quickly from a mild infection.
你可以说，她从轻微的感染中康复得很快。
The doctor's care restored her to good health.
医生的照料使她恢复了健康。
To review, when we return something that was lost, we "restore" it.
总结一下，当我们归还丢失的东西时，我们用restore。
When something goes back to its original state, or the way it was, it "recovers."
当一些东西回到它原来的状态，或它以前的样子，就用recover。
If all goes well, the island at Maya Bay will recover its beauty as the plants, wildlife and waters return to good health.
如果一切顺利，随着植物、野生动物和海水恢复健康，玛雅湾的岛屿将恢复其美丽风光。
And that's Ask a Teacher. I'm Jill Robbins.
以上就是本期《名师答疑》。我是吉尔·罗宾斯。
