高考The pony responsible was queuing up for some ice cream in the car park near Haytor, and perhaps thought I'd jumped in ahead of him.

负责的小马在海托附近的停车场排队买冰激凌，可能以为我跳到了他前面。

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高考Some of them are also later sold, in order to limit the number of ponies according to the rules set by natural england.

其中一些马后来也被出售，以便根据英国自然保护协会制定的规则限制小马的数量。

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高考By feeding the ponies, tourists increase the risk of them getting hit by a car, and make them harder to gather during the area's annual pony drift (迁移).

游客给小马喂食，增加了它们被汽车撞倒的风险，使它们在该地区一年一度的小马漂流中更难聚集(迁移).

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高考One of the purposes of the annual pony drift is to control the number of ponies.

每年小马漂流的目的之一是控制小马的数量。

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高考Dartmoor has 1, 000 or so ponies, who play a critical role in creating the diversity of species in this area.

达特穆尔有大约1000匹小马，它们在创造该地区物种多样性方面发挥着关键作用。

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高考The purpose of a pony drift is to gather them up so their health can be checked, the baby ones can be stooped from feeding on their mother's milk, and those who've gone beyond their limited area can be returned to their correct area.

小马漂流的目的是将它们聚集起来，以便检查它们的健康状况，婴儿可以弯腰不吃母乳，那些超出其有限区域的人可以返回正确的区域。

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高考The reason why the ponies here are naughty is that Haytor is a tourist-heavy area and tourists are constantly feeding the ponies foods, despite signs asking them not to.

这里的小马淘气的原因是海托是一个旅游胜地，游客们不断地给小马喂食，尽管有迹象要求他们不要这样做。

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高考The pony had actually been trapped between two rocks.

小马实际上被困在两块岩石之间。

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高考The officer immediately sent a local farmer out to check on the pony.

警官立即派一位当地农民去检查小马。

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高考Many people are working hard to preserve these ponies, and trying to come up with plans to find a sustainable future for one of dartmoor's most financially-troubled elements.

许多人都在努力保护这些小马，并试图为达特穆尔最财政困难的地区之一找到一个可持续发展的未来。

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