时间:2019-01-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语访谈对话


英语课

   Todd: So Norm 1, you said you have a pretty good story about going hiking and you almost got dehydrated.


  Norm: Yes, it was, we were on our first day of, it was a six day hiking trip in a national park in Quebec, Canada, and I had not done the itinerary 2, but my friend had figured out that the first day we could walk 19 1/2 kilometers in the wilderness 3. I mentioned that, I would have gone for 10 kilometers, do the first stop at the first campsite, but I didn't realize that he was more optimistic than I was, and so we startedout on our first day and very heavy backpack, about 24 kilograms, and very hot day, 30, 32 degrees with hot humid day, and the first day was up and down, up and down, all the time, so at the end of the day, mistake number 1 was we passed sort of a small riverand we didn't refill our bottles because we thought we were almost at our destination, the lake, but it was further than we thought so we ran out of water and darkness set upon us and we were up on a huge rock, and what had happened was, we were at the lookout 4 andbecause we were tired, we were supposed to go left. We went right, so we backtracked, and I, after about five minutes, I mentioned to my other three colleagues I said, we've been here before, I said we're backtracking. All three of then said, how can you tell, I said, I rememberthese particular trees. I said I noticed them all, and they "There are thousands of trees here. You must be mistaken. I said well I'm sure. So they say "No, no. no. It can't be. We're going in the right direction and so we back tracked, and by this time we never got to our camp ground and so we had to stop and we had no water. We hadn't had any water for about two hours, three hours, and so they were kinda, didn't know what to do, but I saw that there was a swamp 5 at the bottom, and I said, "there's water!" Well!, so two of our colleagues stayed up with the tents and I went went down with a friend of mine and it took up an hour just to go down to the swamp, because it was not a path, just there we boulders 6 and big rocks, and we had to go around many obstacles, and then by the time we got to the swamp, it was really dark, so I tied the bottle to a rope and I just threw it in the middle of the swamp to try and get as least dirt as possible and then use my shirt to filter itinto a pot. We had brought with us, to the swamp a pot and a heater, so that we could boil the water. we would, we were very dehydrated, if we hadn't drank at that time, we wouldn't have been able to go back up, so I said we need to replenish 7 our bodies with water, then we'll come back up. So by this time is was pitch dark and my friend had this little hand flashlight that is, didn't last 45 minutes, but luckily I hadmy headlamp and I had just replaced my batteries and that can work 24 hours non stop so we used my single head lamp to go back up but it took up two hours to get back up so we had gone down about 8:30. We left the camp and it was close to midnight by the time we got up. Yeah, total darkness, and because we were on, just on, we could set up tent was a rock, that was like a round, rounded rock, and they set uptheir big tent, but I couldn't sleep in the tent, because it was just no room, so I just put my sleeping bag on the rock and just slept the whole evening. Luckily for me it didn't rain and and I managed to spend, had a fairly good night sleep. So then the next day you just hiked back to your home? No the next day we had, I had brought some re-hydrating salts and that night when we came back with all the water I told everyone that we should put this in the water and then the next morning we felt much better, but then, this time we had light, proper light, sunlight and we looked at the topological map and then we figured out that where we had gone wrong. We were just barely 8 forty minutes away from where we should have been before we made the wrong turn. We were actually very close, but when we backtracked that was our mistake, so 45 minutes later we were at the next lake where there were facilities for setting up our tents, and we were so exhausted 9 thatwe spent the whole day sleeping before continuing on our trip.

n.标准,规范,平均数
  • Of his age,the child is above the norm in arithmetic.在他那个年龄,这个孩子的算术能力是超过标准的。
  • These events were aberrations from the norm.这些事件不合常规。
n.行程表,旅行路线;旅行计划
  • The two sides have agreed on the itinerary of the visit.双方商定了访问日程。
  • The next place on our itinerary was Silistra.我们行程的下一站是锡利斯特拉。
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.注意,前途,瞭望台
  • You can see everything around from the lookout.从了望台上你可以看清周围的一切。
  • It's a bad lookout for the company if interest rates don't come down.如果利率降不下来,公司的前景可就不妙了。
n.沼泽,湿地;v.淹没,陷于沼泽
  • The swamp teems with mosquitoes.这片沼泽地蚊子多极了。
  • The water in the swamp is foul.沼泽中的水很臭。
n.卵石( boulder的名词复数 );巨砾;(受水或天气侵蚀而成的)巨石;漂砾
  • Seals basked on boulders in a flat calm. 海面风平浪静,海豹在巨石上晒太阳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The river takes a headlong plunge into a maelstrom of rocks and boulders. 河水急流而下,入一个漂砾的漩涡中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
vt.补充;(把…)装满;(再)填满
  • I always replenish my food supply before it is depleted.我总是在我的食物吃完之前加以补充。
  • We have to import an extra 4 million tons of wheat to replenish our reserves.我们不得不额外进口四百万吨小麦以补充我们的储备。
adv.仅仅,几乎没有,几乎不
  • The male bird is barely distinguishable from the female.雄鸟和雌鸟几乎无法辨别。
  • He took barely enough money to keep the children in bread.他赚很少的钱仅够孩子们勉强糊口。
adj.极其疲惫的,精疲力尽的
  • It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长,到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
  • Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。
学英语单词
alveolar-capillary membrane
atomic thermo-capacity
Baiso
bandlimitedness
base circle of cam contour
be on pins and needles
binder soil
blogaholics
bodgies
bottlenose dolphin
brubacher
Bundled service
cadmium compound
cavity field
circle segment
classical wave equation
Clinoril
conditionally exempt
crossotarsus simplex
damnworthy
data quality control monitor
demonstrative determiners
detrusion
Diplacrum caricinum
dis tressed
disodium EDTA
docking bridge
Doma Peaks
draft filly
elmina
empty one's plate
false incontinence
field road
firearm manoeuvre
flash desorption spectroscopy
fllium
ftp explorer
full buoyance
gatophobia
glymph
got up to kill
halpens
having it off
hop the perch
industrial solvent
klas
largest-capacity
late in life
lay emphasis up on
leonne
lime sower
limiting kinetic current
lindernia pyxidaria l.
lubrication oil sump
man load chart
Marienborn
MF
micrometer measuring rod
middle jiao
network army
nitrosoethylurethane
no-scope
odd half-spin representation
orchard cultivator
palisadian disturbance
perchlorovinyl resin
Perdices, Sa.de
Peverson
polyphyll
printer/plotter
recremental
return wall
rowlock bolster
rubber hydrochloride
Russianism
saxagliptin
sea connection
self-cleaning tank
sequence control of boiler ignition system
Siwalik Range/Hills
Slovomir
sodium silicate concrete
somatostatinomas
song of songs (hebrew)
spiny-stemmed
steering propeller
stepwise impulse
the yakuza
thought provoking
Tungufjall
two-level parametric amplifier
typhoid complicated with intestinal perforation
unboastfulness
under-glaze
unsinister
upper ideal
uriniferous tubulus (or renal tubules)
vertico-podalic diameter
Videhan
Vujicic
wrist fracture
zero gear