新西兰英语 170 Death of Trampers

　　Two trampers died in the Tararua Forest Park during a snow storm at the weekend. They were 61 year old Dr Seddon Bennington, and 54 year old Marcella Jackson. Dr Bennington had been the CEO of Te Papa, the National Museum, for six years. Mrs Jackson was a senior medical technician², in a medical laboratory³.
On Saturday, the pair entered the Tararua Forest Park which is north of Wellington and inland from Levin. They planned to walk to hut and return on Sunday. When they didn’t return, a 50-person Search and Rescue team, with three helicopters, started looking for them. Their bodies were found on Wednesday morning, covered in snow. They had become separated and were about 300m apart. They were about 1 km from the hut and probably did not reach it before the storm brought cold winds and flying snow. This made it impossible to see where they were going.
Dr Bennington was an experienced⁴ tramper¹. The weather forecast early on Saturday morning said that there would be cold winds and snow on the hills in the Tararua Forest Park but perhaps they did not listen to the weather forecast.
Dr Bennington was a scientist but he was also interested in the Arts. He started his career in Dunedin at the Otago Settlers museum and he also worked in the United States and Australia in Science centres and museums.

1 tramper   

夯实器，流浪者，流动工匠

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2 technician   

n.技术员，技师

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• The technician is busy repairing the machine.技师正忙于修理那台机器。
• A skilled technician takes years to train.一个熟练的技师需要数年时间才能培训出来。

3 laboratory   

n.实验室，化验室

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• She has donated money to establish a laboratory.她捐款成立了一个实验室。
• Our laboratory equipment isn't perfect,but we must make do.实验室设备是不够理想，但我们只好因陋就简。

4 experienced   

adj.有经验的；经验丰富的，熟练的

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• Experienced seamen will advise you about sailing in this weather.有经验的海员会告诉你在这种天气下的航行情况。
• Perhaps you and I had better change over;you are more experienced.也许我们的工作还是对换一下好，你比我更有经验。