时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:雪域之行-瑞士


英语课

----(easy to figure it )out in your head.
---Do you speak English? Yes. May I buy a hot dog, please?
---Um-hum.

Here’s how it works. Right now a Swiss Franc is worth 77 US cents, round that off to 80 cents. If a hot dog costs 5 Swiss Francs, then it costs five 80-cent pieces or roughly 4 dollars. 50 little ones, they are called centimes here, is half a Swiss Franc or 40 cents. If mustard costs 10 centimes, a tenth of 80 cents, it costs the equivalent of 8 cents. 10 Swiss Francs is 8 dollars. Quiz yourself and practice, it becomes second nature about the time you arrive in the next country.

No, you really can figure this out pretty fast, and examine the local coins and currency closely. Those who insist on being confused, will be, and their trips cost a lot more. Those who are expected to travel smart, do. Know the money. And in Switzerland, know the lifts. Save your knees, you don’t have to rough it to get close to nature here. Let’s catch the train down to Lauterbrunnen.

The Alps are full of little villages, huts and lifts that make hiking so civilized-- this is my kind of hiking. Half the fun of all this is gliding 1 through the valleys and over the mountains in all this creative Alpine 2 engineering: trains, gondolas 4, funiculars.

Lauterbrunnen, here is a kind of mountain transportation hub. Now we just came down out of the train from Wengen which is way up there and we want to get to a little village on the top of that cliff called Gimmelwald and we could take the bus down the valley and catch a gondola 3 up. But let’s stay with the train and we’ll ride the funicular up the steep side of this valley. If you’re afraid of heights, stay in Interlaken, rent a paddle boat.

From the top, we’ll catch the panorama 5 train over to Murren. There’s the Eiger and the Jungfrau over there where we were this morning.

Murren is a cute little resort full of hikers in the summer and skiers in the winter. But we’re heading for a real backdoor treat about a 30-minute hike or a 10-minute gondola ride down the hill.

Gimmelwald, not to be confused with touristy Grindelwald, is a sleepy village with more cows ringing bells than people.

words to memorize:
1/funicular(funicular railway)=cable缆车

2/panorama train:全景铁车
注:与paranoia音很像,注意区分(paranoia=monomania)

3/gondola:威尼斯一种小船

4/touristy:专对游览者的



1 gliding
adj.高山的;n.高山植物
  • Alpine flowers are abundant there.那里有很多高山地带的花。
  • Its main attractions are alpine lakes and waterfalls .它以高山湖泊和瀑布群为主要特色。
2 gondola
n.威尼斯的平底轻舟;飞船的吊船
  • The road is too narrow to allow the passage of gondola.这条街太窄大型货车不能通过。
  • I have a gondola here.我开来了一条平底船。
3 gondolas
n.狭长小船( gondola的名词复数 );货架(一般指商店,例如化妆品店);吊船工作台
  • When the G-Force is in motion, the gondolas turn as well. 当“惊呼狂叫”开始旋转时,平底船也同时旋转。 来自互联网
  • Moreton Engineering &Equipment Co. Ltd. -Services include sales tower crane, gondolas, material hoist construction equipment. 山明模型工作室-制作建筑模型,包括售楼模型、规划模型、比赛模型等。 来自互联网
4 panorama
n.全景,全景画,全景摄影,全景照片[装置]
  • A vast panorama of the valley lay before us.山谷的广阔全景展现在我们面前。
  • A flourishing and prosperous panorama spread out before our eyes.一派欣欣向荣的景象展现在我们的眼前。
学英语单词
-nese
1-naphthylamine hydrochloride
abjustment
Abū Rubayq
alkalinizations
amocarzine
arctic region
autocompounded current transformer
ayyub
azatropylidene
backlog depreciation
be enveloped in
beaumontoside
by right of something
chatham str.
cold dishes
conforming imputation
contingent transaction
cross tolerance
customerinquiry
dative sickness
dehorted
delay set counter
die arrangement for continuous compaction
direct-axis transient voltage
direness
dollar value at point of exportation
doublepressing
drinkings
dropping vessel
dry salted fish
duty of assured clause
ecosophers
ego trip
eructing
face masks
faint with
femaleless
fire-bucket
flexible shaft coupling
foredated
getting away
halmyrogenic
instantaneous cut
integrand
Kaschau
kinorhyncha
kiwifruit
lecturin'
lithophile element
local transaction program
Louis III
magnetic device
measure of transcendence
mileage recorder
militarus
molybdenum complex
myohypertrophia kymoparalytica
naphthalene poisoning
octal indication
open future
open-cavity
optical fiber measurement
period-to-date quantity adjusted
phase wave
phlebodium aureums
pinch-in effect
polluter-pays
proximal point algorithm
puccinia noli-tangere
Pull your chain
pycnanthemum virginianums
rattlers
read untrue
reeling furnace
relocatable linking loader
replays
sale fees
Saxifraga divaricata
semipolitician
side action
single shot trigger
single-sideband
sinopontius aesthetascus
sizing roller
soft snap
spooneristic
steady-state heating
supporter combustion
supporting information
tambay
tetanic induced current
TLC-scanner
trentepholia (mongoma) pennipes
Truth In-lending Act
undercut slope
unimanual palpation
unshunned
vibratory hopper feeder
welders' siderosis
with (an) effort
Zǎbrani