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
affective and conative processes
air intercept missile
aluminothermic weld(ing)
antiminority
applicable standard
aspidosamine
b-nt1(broadband network termination 1)
Baikalian orogeny
basari
base course material
bespitting
bi-erasure
bigaroons
bindaas
blaner
blast line
bobby pin
buffer assignment
capillifolia
cavia porcelluss
checkpoint restart
cougarlike
crow quill pen
cuprargyrite
cyst of salivary gland
czepiel
dation
dilatory pleas
dodecaoxide
dray chain conveyor
Dubai-esque
earth-return system
ecological equivalence
eczema sclerosum
EHD generator
ekstrom
epidote-gneiss
expressly agreed terms of the contract
fattened
FDT
feetfoot
final payment
Fort Bragg fever
frame method
gaseous ammonia
high pressure side
Hilum renale
horny crunb
hydraulic breakwater
Ibe wind
impetiginous
infra-
inner plate
intersite transmission
junction luminescent device
kazooing
khasiensis
lecanactis submorosa
masked dance of bangolo (ivory coast)
matatanilactone
material labor
Mbabane
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
neo-theory of population
neutrons from fission
non alkali glass
normal electrode potential
nototodarus hawaiiensis
numerically controlled shears
pfeffers
plated bar
Pollution of Ship's Noise
post-temporal
Prut
pulsating oxidative pyrolysis
pumping and drainage plan
ratchet winding wheel
regular annual continuous survey
restraint welding
ruddy turnstones
sage honey
scatter proofs
Scorpiothyrsus erythrotrichus
screw tool
semidiagrammatic
share-croppings
Siemens' syndrome
Silver liqueur
spherical union
starter formula
stationary counter
street-ward
super injunction
temperature run
tetrapterum
thiocarbonyls
trailer tape
universal amplifier
vv. thoracic? longitudinales
Wagner's corpuscles
wishbone trysail
woad