英语听力：探索发现 2012-04-15 荒野求生:冰岛—2

 Man, this place is bleak¹. I’m here in the middle of winter. Just now it’s 15 degrees Fahrenheit². But in a few hours, it can get down to a deadly minus ten. Get some feeling back in the hands again. 

 

My goal is to show how you could survive in this wasteland if you just know how. One of the simplest ways for finding out north and south when you are in the Northern Hemisphere is just use your watch and the sun. And all I need to do is pointing hour hand at the sun. So it’s 3 o’clock now. I point that at the sun. And then halfway³ between there and 12 o’clock is south. 

 

As Iceland is in middle of the north Atlantic, its weather can change so quickly. And storms can roll in literally⁴ in minutes. When I landed, it was sunny. But now, I’m in the middle of a full-blown blizzard⁵. One of the biggest things that’s up here on these glaciers⁶ in conditions like this is hypothermia. And yeah, it can set in very quickly. Just a drop of a couple of degrees in your core body temperature will bring it on. And you start shivering. You start to slow your words, lose your ability to think straight. And I’ve had it before. And it’s very frightening. Without shelter, you’d only survive on a matter of hours in blizzard conditions.

1 bleak   

adj.(天气)阴冷的；凄凉的；暗淡的

参考例句：

• They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
• The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。

2 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。

3 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。

4 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

5 blizzard   

n.暴风雪

参考例句：

• The blizzard struck while we were still on the mountain.我们还在山上的时候暴风雪就袭来了。
• You'll have to stay here until the blizzard blows itself off.你得等暴风雪停了再走。

6 glaciers   

冰河，冰川( glacier的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Glaciers gouged out valleys from the hills. 冰川把丘陵地带冲出一条条山谷。
• It has ice and snow glaciers, rainforests and beautiful mountains. 既有冰川，又有雨林和秀丽的山峰。 来自英语晨读30分（高一）