时间:2019-01-23 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2012年


英语课

 It’s suddenly just so hot. It’s quite ncie and cool in the breeze of like 100-mile-an-hour slipstream. But suddenly you realize it is very, very hot. And it’s also just huge. Look at this. 


 
First thing, find a vantage point to see where you are. The Kimberly may be the size of California, but this area of the outback has only one highway across it. For millennia 1, this land has been completely undeveloped. And the only people who live here are Australia’s famous bushmen—the Aborigines. It’s their skills and knowledge that I’ll use to show you how to survive in this wild landscape. 
 
Wow, look at that. 
 
And this vast landscape is typical of the outback in northern Australia. It’s a mixture of huge scrub deserts, dry riverbeds and red sandstone cliffs full of deep gorges 2. It must be over a hundred degrees Fahrenheit 3. It’s devastatingly 4 hot here. But first, get your bearings. There’s a major highway that runs through the south of here about 150 miles away. 
 
But much closer and to the northwest, I know also there’re a few small towns. And there will be plenty of dirt tracks. But first of all, I’m gonna work out which way is northwest. And what I can do is use the sun and my watch. And the technique in the southern hemisphere is you point 12 hour at the sun, and half way between there and the hour hand is north. So that’s north, and that’s northwest. 
 
So head northwest until you find a river which should lead to the coast. But before heading out into the great outback, here’s a little trick. I’m gonna spread my parachute out as a marker. So it’s visible from the air. And I’ll leave an arrow pointing towards the direction that I’ve gone.

n.一千年,千禧年
  • For two millennia, exogamy was a major transgression for Jews. 两千年来,异族通婚一直是犹太人的一大禁忌。
  • In the course of millennia, the dinosaurs died out. 在几千年的时间里,恐龙逐渐死绝了。
n.山峡,峡谷( gorge的名词复数 );咽喉v.(用食物把自己)塞饱,填饱( gorge的第三人称单数 );作呕
  • The explorers were confronted with gorges(that were)almost impassable and rivers(that were)often unfordable. 探险人员面临着几乎是无路可通的峡谷和常常是无法渡过的河流。 来自辞典例句
  • We visited the Yangtse Gorges last summer. 去年夏天我们游历了长江三峡。 来自辞典例句
n./adj.华氏温度;华氏温度计(的)
  • He was asked for the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit.他被问到水的沸点是华氏多少度。
  • The thermometer reads 80 degrees Fahrenheit.寒暑表指出华氏80度。
adv. 破坏性地,毁灭性地,极其
  • She was utterly feminine and devastatingly attractive in an unstudied way. 她温存无比,魅力四射而又绝不矫揉造作。
  • I refuted him devastatingly from point to point. 我对他逐项痛加驳斥。
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adipocytokines
air exhauster
alsbachite
anti-virus software
antifouling coating
Athanasian Creed
Belemang Besar, Sungai
ber-lin
broad-reach
canard wing
capsule-type manometer
carp stone
carpetbag steak
cashing in a prize
chemical biocoenology
chukar partridges
chylosystis
Citizens Advice
commercial beef grade
common antibody
copper beeches
cricothyroid articular capsule
crus laterale dextrum
crystogen
deprivation cuisine
depth of transverse
depurators
diamond horseshoe
divarication
editorial control
electrostatic induced current
extractive distillation
falcoes
fat deterioration
financial accountability
Front-Mu points
gallant foxes
giro account
hagiology
hamme ton silver
hyperdesks
hypocarnivore
ignitability
kagak
lattice search
leftmost cell
lenomyia honesta
lubranis
lycosa formosana
maosi
massulae
melissin
mining locomotive
Native Americans
nonarmored
off highway vehicle
on a need-to-know basis
perhydrates
perilesional
phethenylate
phytophages
pigeoneers
pitless
plastic deformation of glass
plumbous chloride
polyendocrinopathies
postischemia
private telegraph
purple sanicles
queyrat erythroplasia
radiate costo-sternal ligament
Robert Anson Heinlein
rurale
Saccopharyngiformes
sacculi
Seaward R.
separate completion
shared peripheral
shochetim
simple solid
Sinnai
siphonet
sluing arch
snets
southey
special vice
spray carburettor
superfluous term
sustainable procurement
svstem
szabmacher
tape punched-paper channels
tortoise-shells
travel(l)ing allowance
turbo refrigerator
ultra-optimeter
united states constitutions
upper bound elemental technique
Vinyon HH
ximengite
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