英语听力：探索发现 2012-03-04 荒野求生 澳洲金伯利—2

 It’s suddenly just so hot. It’s quite ncie and cool in the breeze of like 100-mile-an-hour slipstream. But suddenly you realize it is very, very hot. And it’s also just huge. Look at this. 

 

First thing, find a vantage point to see where you are. The Kimberly may be the size of California, but this area of the outback has only one highway across it. For millennia¹, this land has been completely undeveloped. And the only people who live here are Australia’s famous bushmen—the Aborigines. It’s their skills and knowledge that I’ll use to show you how to survive in this wild landscape. 

 

Wow, look at that. 

 

And this vast landscape is typical of the outback in northern Australia. It’s a mixture of huge scrub deserts, dry riverbeds and red sandstone cliffs full of deep gorges². It must be over a hundred degrees Fahrenheit³. It’s devastatingly⁴ hot here. But first, get your bearings. There’s a major highway that runs through the south of here about 150 miles away. 

 

But much closer and to the northwest, I know also there’re a few small towns. And there will be plenty of dirt tracks. But first of all, I’m gonna work out which way is northwest. And what I can do is use the sun and my watch. And the technique in the southern hemisphere is you point 12 hour at the sun, and half way between there and the hour hand is north. So that’s north, and that’s northwest. 

 

So head northwest until you find a river which should lead to the coast. But before heading out into the great outback, here’s a little trick. I’m gonna spread my parachute out as a marker. So it’s visible from the air. And I’ll leave an arrow pointing towards the direction that I’ve gone.

1 millennia   

n.一千年，千禧年

参考例句：

• For two millennia, exogamy was a major transgression for Jews. 两千年来，异族通婚一直是犹太人的一大禁忌。
• In the course of millennia, the dinosaurs died out. 在几千年的时间里，恐龙逐渐死绝了。

2 gorges   

n.山峡，峡谷( gorge的名词复数 )；咽喉v.（用食物把自己）塞饱，填饱( gorge的第三人称单数 )；作呕

参考例句：

• The explorers were confronted with gorges(that were)almost impassable and rivers(that were)often unfordable. 探险人员面临着几乎是无路可通的峡谷和常常是无法渡过的河流。 来自辞典例句
• We visited the Yangtse Gorges last summer. 去年夏天我们游历了长江三峡。 来自辞典例句

3 Fahrenheit   

n./adj.华氏温度；华氏温度计(的)

参考例句：

• He was asked for the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit.他被问到水的沸点是华氏多少度。
• The thermometer reads 80 degrees Fahrenheit.寒暑表指出华氏80度。

4 devastatingly   

adv. 破坏性地，毁灭性地，极其

参考例句：

• She was utterly feminine and devastatingly attractive in an unstudied way. 她温存无比，魅力四射而又绝不矫揉造作。
• I refuted him devastatingly from point to point. 我对他逐项痛加驳斥。