时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   Sixty years ago today, two men reached the summit 1 of Mt Everest, the highest mountain in the world. They were the first people to do this and return alive. The men were New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay from Nepal. They were part of a British expedition to climb Mt Everest but only these two men climbed to the top.


  The news reached England on the day of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation June 2nd 1953. This was a double reason for excitement for British people that day. Britain was excited because the successful expedition was British. New Zealand was excited because Hillary was a New Zealander.
  Hillary returned to New Zealand and became a hero to most New Zealanders. He was admired for his character and for the work he did with the people in Nepal. He raised a lot of money to build schools and hospitals for the people of Nepal.
  Today, Hillary’s son Peter, and Norgay’s son Jamling, will attend a celebration in London. There will also be celebrations in Nepal.
  A new book of George Lowe’s letters has just been published. He was a member of that expedition and a good friend of Hillary. He wrote very detailed 3 letters describing their climbs. He died 2 months ago.
  Note: Mt Everest is on the border between Nepal and Tibet. It is 8850m high.
  To hear more about Sir Edmund Hillary and Mt Everest, listen to March 22nd 2013, August 13th 2011, and April 3rd 2008
  Vocabulary
  ?reach – get to a place e.g. reach the summit; news reached England
  ?summit – top of a mountain, peak
  ?expedition – an organised group of people wanting to explore a new place
  ?admired – people had a high opinion of him and respected him
  ?detailed – including all the small things that happened
  Note: When we use the name of the mountain, we shorten 4 the word to “Mount 2” e.g. Mount Everest (not Mountain Everest).

n.最高点,峰顶;最高级会议;极点
  • They climbed up the mountain and reached the summit.他们爬山,最终达到了山顶。
  • The summit of the mountain is lost in the cloud and mist.山顶隐没在云雾之中。
n.山峰,乘用马,框,衬纸;vi.增长,骑上(马);vt.提升,爬上,装备
  • Their debts continued to mount up.他们的债务不断增加。
  • She is the first woman who steps on the top of Mount Jolmo Lungma.她是第一个登上珠穆朗玛峰的女人。
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
vt.弄短,缩小,减少
  • Minor accidents can shorten the life of a car.小事故会缩短汽车寿命。
  • My dress is too long I must shorten it.我的连衣裙太长了,我得把它截短些。
学英语单词
ahemeral days
arbitrary-function generator
beam intensity distribution
beginning of conversation
calorie small
can you feel my world
carboxylic acrylonitrile butadiene rubber latex
cargo winch
champenize
chlorvinyldichloroarsine
chrome-manganese-silicon alloy steel
chromospheric eruption
cioteronel
coaminopherase
compilation order
computer main frequency
corporate group
corsse
cross-section ionization detector
cube farm
decade band
decentralised
deep trades
deformable raft
denounc't
diphthongise
do what one is capable of
dynamic geomorphology
electronic specific heat
emiss
feather picker
financial supervision
fire resistant paint
genus pezizas
get a patent on
get robbed
go with
Gran Colombia
grenade throwers
gyro-TWT
hanson
harebin
have one's bread buttered for life
highly-academic
insulinization
interference inversion
It's a small world.
large rock mass
lethrinus variegatus
linguistic description
lowest normal low water
Malvastrum coromandelianum
mangan-Rockbridgeite
manzanar
medium-intensity approach light system
mendigo
metranemia
Moorhusen
nag screens
oceanite
patholinguistics
patripassianism
persuing
phenanthrine
photopolymerization system
phototroller
project into
proofreadings
public decision making
pulse-power breakdown
pump power input
pyruric
Rami nasales anteriores laterales
range of mountains
rated revolutions
rheticus
risic acid
Réclère
self-blinded
separated layer fertilization
sexual chemistry
shrieved
shrinking and thinning
siphonuli
smallness of cornea
sokoloff
Spinoolivary
star cross
stowing machine
subclavial
tabp
temperature anomaly
tethery
time working day
time-life
transmitter frequency tolerance
u-verse
usuals
walking bosses
water discipline
wow us
Zhanay