英语听力：探索发现 2012-04-15 荒野求生:冰岛—2
时间：2019-01-23 作者：英语课 分类：探索与发现2012年
英语课
Man, this place is bleak 1. I’m here in the middle of winter. Just now it’s 15 degrees Fahrenheit 2. But in a few hours, it can get down to a deadly minus ten. Get some feeling back in the hands again.
My goal is to show how you could survive in this wasteland if you just know how. One of the simplest ways for finding out north and south when you are in the Northern Hemisphere is just use your watch and the sun. And all I need to do is pointing hour hand at the sun. So it’s 3 o’clock now. I point that at the sun. And then halfway 3 between there and 12 o’clock is south.
As Iceland is in middle of the north Atlantic, its weather can change so quickly. And storms can roll in literally 4 in minutes. When I landed, it was sunny. But now, I’m in the middle of a full-blown blizzard 5. One of the biggest things that’s up here on these glaciers 6 in conditions like this is hypothermia. And yeah, it can set in very quickly. Just a drop of a couple of degrees in your core body temperature will bring it on. And you start shivering. You start to slow your words, lose your ability to think straight. And I’ve had it before. And it’s very frightening. Without shelter, you’d only survive on a matter of hours in blizzard conditions.
adj.(天气)阴冷的；凄凉的；暗淡的
- They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
- The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。
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。
adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途
- We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
- In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。
adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实
- He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
- Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。
n.暴风雪
- The blizzard struck while we were still on the mountain.我们还在山上的时候暴风雪就袭来了。
- You'll have to stay here until the blizzard blows itself off.你得等暴风雪停了再走。