英文原版对话1000个:868 The River
时间：2019-02-08 作者：英语课 分类：原版英语对话1000个
Todd: So, Jeff, we're talking about your trip down the Amazon, and so you took a truck to the Amazon and then you got a canoe 1. You got on a canoe. Can you talk about your journey down the Amazon?
Jeff: The Amazon... What people think of the Amazon is a beautiful river with a nice green jungle and lots of animals, and... it's not like that. It's not a beautiful place. It was... the river was muddy 2 and dirty. It looked like coffee. The side of the river, the side of the Amazon was very overgrown and full of mosquitos 3 and black flies. We didn't see any wild animals because the canoe was just a long, thin wooden canoe piled high with things like rice and food other materials that the villagers needed and it had an outboard motor 4 that was very noisy, so it wasn't romantic 5 at all, the ideas of the Amazon river, and the beauty and the adventure. It was difficult and dirty and hot and dangerous, so it wasn't romantic at all.
Todd: It doesn't sound like it. Where did you stay as you would go down? Would you sleep on the canoe?
Jeff: No. Every night they would stop at a little village, and it was just made out of... little village, a little cluster 6 of bamboo thatched houses just on the side of the river. They'd clear a little spot out of the jungle and then they'd have a, say a dozen bamboo houses there and we'd sleep say on the floor of one of their houses in our sleeping bags.
Todd: Were these houses made especially for travelers?
Jeff: No, no. There was no travelers. There's no houses for travelers. These are just with the villagers. There's no restaurants or no hotels. There are no internet cafes. Half the villages didn't have power, so it was real basic village life.
Todd: Wow!
- They slid the canoe down to the water.他们使小舟滑到水中。
- It is only the second time he has been in a canoe.这仅是他第二次乘小游艇。
- The road is very muddy.这条路非常泥泞。
- They passed a muddy track through the forest.他们穿过森林的泥泞小路。
- Anopheles mosquitos transmit malaria. 疟蚊传播疟疾。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Teacher: And what is the living environment for mosquitos? 那蚊子的生活环境呢？ 来自互联网
- A washing machine is run by a small electric motor.洗衣机由一台小电动机驱动。
- The motor usually operates well.这台发动机通常运转良好。
- She thinks it will be romantic to be an actress.她认为当个女演员会很浪漫。
- Her husband is very romantic.她丈夫非常浪漫。