北师大版高中英语模块11--Unit32(3)-5

[00:01.69]As for the men... what did  they get up to?
[00:04.61]As a man I was part of the hunting party,
[00:07.12]which I'm afraid to say wasn't
[00:08.49]all that successful.
[00:10.43]We spent a lot of time nearly catching¹ things.
[00:13.02]usually our catch would consist of a hare
[00:15.45]or a bullfrog or two...
[00:17.45]And what does that taste like?
[00:19.85]It tastes like nothing on earth actually...
[00:22.15]like nothing else on earth.
[00:24.55]...and that's just one of the eco-tourism
[00:26.97]options now on offer.
[00:28.95]Among the other eco-holidays,
[00:31.06]you can have a taste of the gaucho² lifestyle,
[00:33.60]staying and working on a cattle ranch³
[00:35.48]on the borders of Chile and Argentina,
[00:37.78]join archeologists in the North African desert,
[00:40.82]or live the life of a religious hermit⁴
[00:43.70]on an uninhabited island
[00:44.99]off the west coast of Ireland.
[00:47.85]But if roughing it isn't quite to your taste,
[00:50.39]perhaps you'd like to use your holiday
[00:52.63]to learn a local craft or skill?
[00:55.34]And these days it seems you can learn
[00:57.35]almost anything,
[00:59.06]from Italian cookery in Tuscany,
[01:01.38]to riding Lusitano horses in Northern Portugal.
[01:04.90]We caught up with journalist Isabelle Fahey,
[01:07.91]who had just spent two weeks
[01:09.63]on a yoga retreat in Ulpotha,
[01:11.84]in the Sri Lankan jungle.
[01:13.89]Isablle, describe the experience to us.
[01:15.68]

1 catching   

adj.易传染的，有魅力的，迷人的，接住

参考例句：

• There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
• Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。

2 gaucho   

n. 牧人

参考例句：

• Outside the city there are many countryside ranches for city dwellers to live the gaucho life,or just enjoy country life in the pampas,the grasslands outside buenos aires.城外有许多农庄，可以供城市居民前往居住和体验牛仔生活，或者只是去享受一下草原上的农家生活。
• There are many working estancias where tourists can live out the gaucho lifestyl

3 ranch   

n.大牧场，大农场

参考例句：

• He went to work on a ranch.他去一个大农场干活。
• The ranch is in the middle of a large plateau.该牧场位于一个辽阔高原的中部。

4 hermit   

n.隐士，修道者；隐居

参考例句：

• He became a hermit after he was dismissed from office.他被解职后成了隐士。
• Chinese ancient landscape poetry was in natural connections with hermit culture.中国古代山水诗与隐士文化有着天然联系。