时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2013年


英语课

 Long before this was a national park, it held the fascination 1 of a man who wrote this lovely old book, Mr. GA Farini and he fell in love with this place when it was undiscovered, wild frontier land. 


The Great Farini, otherwise known as William Hunt, was a famous Canadian showman, best known for crossing Niagara Falls on a high-wire in 1860. 
Having retired 2 from acrobatics 3, the intriguing 4 Farini continued his waterfall interests by coming here, an adventure that probably made him the first white man to cross the Kalahari. 
“My expedition has completely disproved the long-prevailing notion that the Kalahari is a barren wilderness 5.” Well, I completely agree. Now there’s just a small matter of finding those falls and I think it’s gonna get a bit tougher.
Farini’s drive to explore the Kalahari on foot was revolutionary. Today, walkers come here all the time, but the area still has to be respected. The National Park’s designated three-day trail isn’t for the faint-hearted. You need to carry all your own equipment, food and water. And there’s no electricity or showers on hand. 
This walk is closed for five months of the year because of the heat. And today I can understand why. 
And the further you climb away from the only water in the park, the more you realize how little shelter there really is. But the climb leads me to a high point called A*, the best possible view of the Orange River.
What a gorgeous gorge 6! She is a beauty! Definitely worth all that hard work to get up here.

n.令人着迷的事物,魅力,迷恋
  • He had a deep fascination with all forms of transport.他对所有的运输工具都很着迷。
  • His letters have been a source of fascination to a wide audience.广大观众一直迷恋于他的来信。
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
n.杂技
  • Acrobatics is hard to learn but beautiful to watch.杂技不好学,但很好看。
  • We watched a performance which included a puppet show and acrobatics.我们观看了一场演出,内容有木偶和杂技。
adj.有趣的;迷人的v.搞阴谋诡计(intrigue的现在分词);激起…的好奇心
  • These discoveries raise intriguing questions. 这些发现带来了非常有趣的问题。
  • It all sounds very intriguing. 这些听起来都很有趣。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等,荒漠
  • She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
  • Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
n.咽喉,胃,暴食,山峡;v.塞饱,狼吞虎咽地吃
  • East of the gorge leveled out.峡谷东面地势变得平坦起来。
  • It made my gorge rise to hear the news.这消息令我作呕。
学英语单词
above the salt
addendum modification of wormwheel
aerophotogrammetric field work
Aktiebolaget
amye
as happy as a clam
basendite
basopenias
battle plans
Bone-one
Brahms Inlet
breaker's yard
butoxy group
calefacted
car journal and box inspection
cardianesthesia
cercospora krugiana
clouds from volcanic eruptions
coastal resorts
colchines
compound analysis
coracana
corsaro
cosmiomorpha taiwanomontanus
Cusiana R.
Dacca District
data element (in database)
de Broglie wavelength
dicranoptycha formosensis
Difrm
double-interruption jack
drop-method
dropping worm
easied
ecphore
engineer's estimate
Ephestia cautella
estimate variance
exercise ... right
FAL (frequency allocation list)
fiduciary circulation
file finishing
finemen
French Indochina
from title page to colophon
gaussian random vibration
half(first)cousin
heat storing matrix
hemafacient
high-frequency loss
high-temperature short-time processing
hydrogenate effluents
Håverud
interactive video disk system
interspersals
main bearing structure
Marie's sclerosis
max rotating angle of pitman arm shaft
mcak
minable seam
mix instruction
mixed account
multimediatizing
mysticismus
Nizovskaya
noncult
notice of delivery
open voltage
Papaver somniferum L.
perfluoropolyalkylether oil
playback signal
polytomous
positive punch stripper
programmed digital automatic control
public videotex system
pulse magnitude fluctuation
rated temperature-rise
rotating drum relay
sangivamycine
scer
schn
sciaticas
shets
single-frame motor
spondylus sinensis
standardization of tariff
steady irrotational flow
Sudetes
syndrome of high-titer cold hemagglutination
theoretical pedagogics
thermal utilization factor
time background
to my eye
two-way tap
typhoidal scarlet fever
unexpurgated
vacuum thermometer
Vawkavyskaye Wzvyshsha
vibrating shoe
wider-spread
work-attitude
y?eh hu